Three huge announcements and their implications: The Stargate Project, OpenAI's Operator, and the rise of DeepSeek R1. Also: Synthesia is now the UK's most valuable generative AI company, an overview of Microsoft's new rStar-Math technique, and more.
Founded by Former DeepMind scientist Simon Kohl, Latent Labs has emerged from stealth with $50M in funding to develop AI models for protein design. Latent Labs aims to accelerate drug discovery through partnerships with biotech and pharmaceutical companies.
Generative AI infrastructure startup fal has raised a $49M Series B led by Notable Capital and Andreessen Horowitz to scale its video-focused AI platform. fal already serves over 50 enterprise customers including Quora and Canva, and processes over 100 million inference requests daily.
BBC research reveals that leading AI tools including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Gemini produced significant factual errors in about 20% of responses and altered or fabricated quotes in over 10% of cases when answering news questions using BBC articles as sources.
A recent experiment by LangChain tests the performance of five leading LLMs by Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta within single-agent architectures for single-domain tasks. The findings reveal that performance degrades as the domains to manage, context complexity, and available tools increase.
Thousands of artists have signed a letter protesting Christie's first major AI art auction, claiming the models used to create many artworks were illicitly trained on copyrighted material. Christie's and some featured artists have defended the auction, suggesting the criticism is misguided.
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Databricks, Decart, Perplexity, and Anysphere all raised new funding; Google gave no breaks to OpenAI and launched a reasoning model and Veo 2; Grammarly acquired Coda; GitHub Copilot introduced a new free tier; Instagram is planning to launch Movie Gen-powered features; and more.
Google's advances in agentic AI and the Gemini 2.0 Flash launch; two startups working on transformer-based models alternatives closed funding rounds; Claude 3.5 Haiku is generally available; Reddit introduced its conversational AI; and more.
