DataPhoenix Events Digest is back with new show formats and live streaming coverage. This issue features 7 upcoming AI events in the Bay Area from mid-April through early May 2026.
NVIDIA-backed SiFive raised $400 million at a $3.65 billion valuation to accelerate its open-source RISC-V chip designs for AI data centers, positioning itself as an alternative to proprietary x86 and ARM architectures in the data center solutions market.
Meta launched Muse Spark, its first model from the newly created Meta Superintelligence Labs. Meta claims Muse Spark marks the beginning of a "ground-up overhaul" of its AI strategy, which aims to fix the performance gap between the company's models and similar offerings from its competitors.
Arcee AI, a tiny US startup that recently developed a completely open contender to Meta's Llama 4 Maverick, recently released Trinity-Large-Thinking, an open weights reasoning model claimed to be "the strongest open model ever released outside of China."
Microsoft AI announced the availability of three foundational models for transcription and voice and image generation. The launch highlights these models' competitive pricing and practical business value as Microsoft shifts its AI strategy towards business and productivity solutions.
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