China is advancing its global soft power by releasing open-weight AI models that are widely adopted in Africa and other regions, while the U.S. relies on closed-source proprietary models. Andrew Ng wa…
AI researcher Rishabh Agarwal rejected a reported Meta offer exceeding $1 million per year to cofound Periodic Labs, a startup backed by NVIDIA and Jeff Bezos, according to multiple Indian news outlet…
Cohere Labs arrives in Seoul for ICML 2026, where AI research intersects with sales and recruiting. The conference serves as a platform for Cohere to convert technical credibility into enterprise deal…
Sakana AI launched Fugu, a multi-agent AI system that orchestrates Claude, GPT, and Gemini through one API to outperform individual frontier models on benchmarks. The system uses a mixture-of-agents a…
Sakana AI's Fugu multi-model orchestration system costs 5x more and runs 4.5x slower than Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 while delivering similar results, raising questions about the practical value of m…
NVIDIA has reportedly acquihired the team from Essential AI, including co-founder and Transformer paper co-author Ashish Vaswani, to join its Nemotron research group. The move strengthens NVIDIA's in-…
Noam Shazeer, co-author of the influential 'Attention Is All You Need' paper and co-creator of transformer technology, has left Google to join OpenAI. The move, announced on X, comes as OpenAI prepare…
The foundations of today's AI boom, including the first Transformer variant, unsupervised pre-training, neural network distillation, and deep residual learning, were all published in 1991 by Jürgen Sc…
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Startup Ricursive, founded by the former leads of Google's AlphaChip project, announced plans to develop an end-to-end AI model for chip design, aiming to transform the industry by…
Ideogram 4, a 9.3-billion-parameter text-to-image model from a team of former Google Brain researchers, topped the open-weight leaderboard for design quality, winning nearly half of blind typography t…
A developer detailed the architecture of agentic AI systems, building on the 2022 ReAct paper from Google Brain that enabled language models to reason, act, and revise their thinking in a loop. The po…
Chinese AI labs have progressed from early BERT-era models to trillion-parameter systems like Wu Dao 2.0 (1.75T parameters) and cost-efficient architectures such as DeepSeek V3 (trained for $5.6M), ac…
Nicholas Carlini announced he is leaving Google DeepMind after seven years to join Anthropic for one year, citing disagreements with DeepMind leadership over its support for high-impact security and p…