AI Highlights Review: March 13–24
Highlights from the Nvidia GTC 2025 keynote, OpenAI's new tools for building agents, Gleamer's recent acquisitions, and OpenAI's decision to invest in CoreWeave as tensions with Microsoft continue to rise.
Nvidia, Alphabet, and Google announce collaboration focused on physical and agentic AI
NVIDIA and Alphabet/Google announced at GTC they are expanding their AI collaboration, focusing on advanced hardware, responsible AI development, robotics innovation, and transformative applications in fields like drug discovery and energy management.
Nvidia introduces the Blackwell Ultra to support the rise of AI reasoning, agents, and physical AI
NVIDIA's new Blackwell Ultra platform delivers significantly enhanced AI computing power for reasoning and agentic AI applications. Introduced yesterday at GTC, Blackwell Ultra is expected to be adopted by Nvidia's cloud and manufacturing partners.
Nvidia unveils Llama Nemotron reasoning model family designed for powering AI agents
NVIDIA has launched the open Llama Nemotron family of reasoning AI models that deliver up to 20% improved accuracy and 5x faster inference compared to competitors, designed to help developers and enterprises build advanced AI agents.
OpenAI Launches New Tools for Building AI Agents
OpenAI has launched a comprehensive suite of new tools including the Responses API, built-in capabilities for web search, file search, and computer use, and an open-source Agents SDK—all designed to make it significantly easier for developers to build AI agents.
Gleamer adds AI-assisted MRI diagnosis to its portfolio after acquiring Pixyl and Caerus Medical
Gleamer recently acquired Pixyl and Caerus Medical to expand its portfolio to include neural and lumbar MRI scan analysis, furthering its goal of developing specialized AI tools for various radiology diagnostics tasks.
OpenAI to invest billions in CoreWeave as tensions with Microsoft continue growing
CoreWeave and OpenAI announced a strategic partnership to provide the latter with even more AI infrastructure. OpenAI has committed up to $11.9 billion to be disbursed across five years in exchange for $350 million in shares.
AI Highlights Review: March 5–12
Investors are betting big on AI-powered agents for coding; Anthropic's Series E; Cohere for AI released Aya Vision; Scrunch AI wants to optimize businesses' online presence for AI; Mistral launched a powerful OCR API; Coreweave acquired Weights & Biases; and more.
HelloBetter secures over €6M to expand its AI-powered mental health solutions
HelloBetter has secured €6 million in funding to expand internationally and develop AI-powered digital mental health solutions, bringing its total funding to €31 million. The company plans to enter the French market by establishing a partnership with Mutuelles Impact, which led the funding round.
CoreWeave revealed its acquisition of the AI developer platform Weights & Biases
CoreWeave is acquiring Weights & Biases to create an end-to-end platform that combines cloud infrastructure with AI development tools. The deal unites two industry leaders and aims to accelerate AI innovation while maintaining support for existing Weights & Biases customers.
Mistral AI launched a new OCR API that processes PDFs into a nicely ordered Markdown file
Mistral AI launched a document understanding API that processes PDF files using OCR to generate Markdown documents, offering superior performance for mathematical equations, scanned documents, and multilingual content while processing up to 2000 pages per minute.
Google's new 'AI mode' adds more AI to Search and enables users to ask complex questions
Google has launched an AI mode for Search: an experimental product that leverages AI to handle complex queries typically addressed by performing multiple traditional web searches. In parallel, the company also announced it expanded access to its AI Overviews, now powered by Gemini 2.0.