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.
Investors flee AI giants as China’s DeepSeek AI disrupts the market with a free, high-performing chatbot, raising doubts about Big Tech’s invincibility in the AI race.
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."
Dario Amodei, CEO of AI safety startup Anthropic, declared at the 2025 World Economic Forum in Davos that breakthroughs in artificial intelligence could radically accelerate advancements in biology—potentially matching 100 years of progress in just 5–10 years.
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.
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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.