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.
Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati has launched Thinking Machines Lab, a new AI startup focused on making artificial intelligence more customizable and accessible while advancing AI capabilities, with a team of prominent AI researchers from OpenAI and other leading companies.
Arize AI has raised $70 million in Series C funding to expand its AI evaluation and observability platform. Arize's platform helps companies ensure their AI systems work reliably in real-world applications by empowering them with testing, debugging, and optimization tools.
Perplexity has launched Deep Research, a free AI-powered research tool that can analyze hundreds of sources in minutes to create comprehensive reports across various domains, promising to save users significant research time.
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.
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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.
