OpenAI and SoftBank Group have announced a $3 billion annual partnership to develop and deploy Cristal Intelligence, a new enterprise AI system that will be rolled out across SoftBank's companies and marketed to major Japanese firms through a joint venture.
Mistral AI has released Mistral Small 3, a latency-optimized and efficient 24B-parameter open-source language model that matches the performance of models three times its size and can run locally on consumer hardware. Mistral Small 3 is available under an Apache 2.0 license.
OpenAI has launched deep research, a new ChatGPT feature that can independently conduct comprehensive internet research to create detailed, cited reports in minutes rather than hours. Deep research is available for Pro users only, but OpenAI expects to expand access to the other paid tiers shortly.
Manas AI, co-founded by Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee and Reid Hoffman, has launched with $24.6 million in seed funding to accelerate cancer drug discovery through its proprietary AI platform and Microsoft partnership.
Tülu 3 is an open-source research project by the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) that provides a comprehensive open-source post-training methodology for large language models. The recently released Tülu 3 405B demonstrates that the Tülu 3 post-training recipe is both efficient and scalable.
DeepSeek's newly released Janus-Pro model family, featuring 1.5B and 7B parameter versions, achieves state-of-the-art performance in image understanding and generation benchmarks, making it an efficient and commercially accessible alternative to larger models like DALL-E 3.
ElevenLabs has raised $180 million in Series C funding, co-led by a16z and ICONIQ Growth, valuing the AI voice technology company at $3.3 billion as it expands its suite of voice AI products and targets global growth.
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.
OpenAI and SoftBank have announced The Stargate Project, an ambitious $500 billion private infrastructure venture backed by Oracle and Abu Dhabi's MGX fund to serve OpenAI's computing needs. The venture was praised by President Trump as a "declaration of confidence in America's potential."
Perplexity has launched its Sonar Pro API, offering developers access to an AI-powered search solution that combines real-time internet connectivity with language model capabilities to deliver highly accurate, citation-backed responses.
Microsoft responds to user feedback by reversing controversial changes to Bing Image Creator, ensuring a better user experience for creative AI tools.
Microsoft's new rStar-Math technique enables small AI models to outperform OpenAI's o1-preview on complex mathematical problems, achieving 90% accuracy on the MATH benchmark. This innovative approach overcomes challenges associated with alternatives such as model distillation and reward models.