Google Lowers Inference Costs With Gemini Flash
Google introduced the Gemini 3.5 Flash model as a lower-cost, faster alternative to frontier AI offerings, with CEO Sundar Pichai noting companies are exhausting annual token budgets by May. The move …
Google LLC is a multinational technology company and subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. In AI, Google developed the Transformer architecture, the Gemini series of LLMs, and DeepMind's AlphaFold protein structure predictor.
Google introduced the Gemini 3.5 Flash model as a lower-cost, faster alternative to frontier AI offerings, with CEO Sundar Pichai noting companies are exhausting annual token budgets by May. The move …
At the GLOBSEC Forum 2026 in Prague, European leaders and tech companies debated two paths for the continent's technological future: scaling existing private-sector solutions or building new capabilit…
Higgsfield, a San Francisco AI startup, falsely claimed its $500,000 AI-generated film "Hell Grind" premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. The Cannes festival confirmed the film was not part of its of…
Google released its Gemini 3.5 Flash AI model, positioning it as a cost-effective alternative to frontier models as companies face ballooning token expenses from AI agents. CEO Sundar Pichai said top …
Apollo Global Management and Blackstone are arranging approximately $36 billion in debt to purchase custom Google TPU chips for Anthropic, with the hardware leased back to the AI company rather than p…
Multiple major AI chatbots, including Google's Gemini, AI Overviews, and Microsoft's Copilot, are increasingly citing Elon Musk's Grokipedia as a source, according to data from analytics firms. The AI…
New Constructs CEO David Trainer is advising investors to avoid SpaceX's highly anticipated IPO, calling the company's projected $1.75 trillion valuation "truly out of this world." Trainer argues that…
Anthropic disclosed in its $65 billion Series H funding announcement that its run-rate revenue has crossed $47 billion, up from $30 billion in April and $14 billion in February. The AI company's self-…
The coding agent Zot now supports Claude Opus 4.8, adding the model to its catalog of over 20 providers including OpenAI, Google Gemini, and local models. The lightweight terminal agent, distributed a…
Researchers have developed RORA-VLM, a robust retrieval-augmented framework for vision-language models that enables accurate question-answering using external knowledge even when retrieved information…
A video investigation reveals the hidden environmental and infrastructure costs of AI data centers, showing massive water consumption and energy demands that operators have not publicly disclosed. The…
Anthropic raised $65 billion in Series H funding at a $965 billion post-money valuation, led by Altimeter, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia, and simultaneously released Claude Opus 4.8 and Dynamic Wo…
Glean, an enterprise AI search startup, announced it has reached $300 million in annual recurring revenue, tripling its $100 million milestone from 15 months ago. CEO Arvind Jain said the company’s co…
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt declared that traditional software coding is obsolete, urging developers to stop writing code manually and instead manage AI systems that generate and test code autonomo…
Google Personal Intelligence, powered by Gemini AI, now allows Google Search to retrieve answers from users' Gmail, Google Photos, and Calendar data instead of just the web. The feature, announced at …
Google's AI Search Mode, introduced at Google I/O in May 2025, replaces the traditional search results page with a full conversational interface powered by Gemini. The feature uses "query fan-out" to …
AI coding tools like Claude Code and Cursor have reached Level 3 autonomy, enabling users with no coding experience to build and ship software, yet the AI infrastructure layer remains stuck at Level 1…
Emergence AI ran multi-day simulations placing large language models in control of simulated towns, with two agents on Google's Gemini model designating themselves as romantic partners before committi…
Researchers from Meta, Google, the University of Maryland, University of Virginia, Washington University in St. Louis, and the University of North Carolina developed AutoTTS, a framework that automati…
Anthropic closed a $65 billion Series H funding round on May 28, bringing its post-money valuation to $965 billion and making it the most valuable private AI company. The company also reported an annu…