Amazon is investing $110 million in its Build on Trainium program to provide academic researchers access to powerful AI computing resources and support open-source AI innovation through university partnerships.
Writer, an AI company that developed the Palmyra language model series, has secured $200 million in Series C funding at a $1.9 billion valuation to expand its enterprise-focused generative AI platform and hail the next generation of AI applications and agents for use cases.
Red Hat is acquiring Neural Magic, an MIT spin-off specializing in AI inference optimization, to help make large language models more accessible and cost-effective across hybrid cloud environments.
After facing criticism for undermining the reproducibility and transparency of science, Google DeepMind has released the source code for AlphaFold 3 for anyone to access. Additionally, researchers with an academic affiliation can request access to the model's training parameters.
Although they remain mostly optimistic, major AI companies report diminishing returns from traditional scaling approaches in AI model development, leading them to explore alternative methods like test-time computing and agentic AI capabilities.
Reports suggest OpenAI's new Orion model shows modest improvements over GPT-4, an unexpected development that led the company to accelerate the exploration of alternative enhancement strategies.
AI technology was used to clean up the vocals from John Lennon's 1978 "Now and Then" demo to create The Beatles' final song, which received two nominations for the 2025 Grammy Awards: Record of the Year and Best Rock Performance.
AI coding assistant Cursor's parent company Anysphere is fielding unsolicited offers from major VC firms at valuations up to $2.5 billion, following explosive revenue growth from $4M annually to $4M monthly in less than a year.
Healthcare startup Conflixis raises $4.2M in seed funding to use AI and advanced analytics to help healthcare organizations better manage and understand conflicts of interest in their decision-making processes.
Panjaya's new AI dubbing platform BodyTalk synchronizes lip movements and body gestures for natural-looking video translations. BodyTalk early adopter TED reports doubled viewer completion rates and a 115% increase in views of dubbed content.
German digital health company HelloBetter has received €3 million in funding to develop MindFIT, an AI-powered mental wellness platform that uses machine learning to provide personalized, modular support for various mental health challenges.
A portrait of Alan Turing created by Ai-Da, the world's first ultra-realistic robot artist, has made history by selling for $1.08 million at Sotheby's— becoming the first artwork by a humanoid robot to be sold at auction.