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.
OpenAI has introduced a new "tasks" feature in beta for ChatGPT's paid users that enables scheduling reminders and recurring requests, marking the company's first step into AI agent capabilities.
Fashion design platform Raspberry AI has secured $24 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz to expand its AI technology that converts fashion sketches into instant photorealistic renderings, already used by major brands like Under Armour and MCM Worldwide.
X users continue to take advantage of Grok's lack of guardrails to generate and flood the platform with harmful content. Reports point to a spike in the prevalence of abusive content after Grok's image generation capabilities were enhanced with Aurora, xAI's proprietary model.
Mistral recently announced an update to its code generation model, equipping it with a new architecture and improved tokenizer. Codestral 25.01 supports a leading 256K context length, performs strongly on popular coding benchmarks, and outperforms its rivals on fill-in-the-middle (FIM) tasks.
A Bloomberg analysis reveals that homes within 20 miles of AI data centers are experiencing dangerous levels of power grid distortions (bad harmonics), particularly in Virginia's "data center alley". Meanwhile, tech companies plan massive expansions of their data center infrastructure across the US.