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.
Synthesia, a London-based AI video communications platform, has raised $180M in Series D funding led by NEA, making it the UK's most valuable generative AI media company with a $2.1B valuation and over 60,000 customers.
A recap of our CES 2025 coverage; Anthropic reportedly looking to raise funds; data centers' impact on the elecric grid; Mistral AI updated Codestral; xAI's Aurora unsurprisingly has no guardrails; Raspberry AI's Series A; ChatGPT's new beta feature; LetsData's fundraise.
LetsData, a cybersecurity startup born during Russia's invasion of Ukraine, has raised $1.6M to expand its AI-powered information operations detection technology that analyzes content across multiple platforms and languages.