X users continue to take advantage of Grok's lack of guardrails to generate and flood the platform with harmful content. Reports point to a spike in the prevalence of abusive content after Grok's image generation capabilities were enhanced with Aurora, xAI's proprietary model.
Fashion design platform Raspberry AI has secured $24 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz to expand its AI technology that converts fashion sketches into instant photorealistic renderings, already used by major brands like Under Armour and MCM Worldwide.
X users continue to take advantage of Grok's lack of guardrails to generate and flood the platform with harmful content. Reports point to a spike in the prevalence of abusive content after Grok's image generation capabilities were enhanced with Aurora, xAI's proprietary model.
Mistral recently announced an update to its code generation model, equipping it with a new architecture and improved tokenizer. Codestral 25.01 supports a leading 256K context length, performs strongly on popular coding benchmarks, and outperforms its rivals on fill-in-the-middle (FIM) tasks.
A Bloomberg analysis reveals that homes within 20 miles of AI data centers are experiencing dangerous levels of power grid distortions (bad harmonics), particularly in Virginia's "data center alley". Meanwhile, tech companies plan massive expansions of their data center infrastructure across the US.
At CES 2025, Delta Air Lines announced Delta Concierge, an AI-powered digital assistant launching in 2025 that will provide travel assistance through the Fly Delta app, offering features like proactive notifications, natural language interaction, and real-time airport navigation guidance.
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.
AWS re:Invent 2024 coverage; World Labs previewed its first world model; Google DeepMind previewed Genie 2; Meta released Llama 3.3 70B; xAI raised $6B; Microsoft launched Copilot Vision; Nebius raised $700M; and more.
