PrismML released Bonsai 2 27B on Thursday, a compressed version of Alibaba's Qwen3.8 27B open-source model shrunk to 5.9 GB — a 9x to 10x memory reduction that matches 98% of Qwen's aggregate benchmar…
OPAQUE, a San Francisco confidential-AI company, published Weight Custody Manifest (WCM) on September 9, an open specification and developer SDK that lets AI developers place encrypted model weights o…
Researchers from UC Berkeley and MIT released FreeToken, an open-source inference engine that enables frontier Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models to run on consumer hardware via dynamic co-execution, ach…
Arena launched AutoEval on July 30, giving new AI models a preliminary Arena Score within an hour by training reward models on millions of pairwise preferences, compared with days required for human v…
SkyPilot, co-founded by Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica and UC Berkeley researchers, emerged from stealth on Tuesday with a $20 million seed round led by Lux Capital to build a neutral orchestration …
Infrastructure automation startup SkyPilot Inc. launched today with $20 million in seed funding led by Lux Capital, with participation from Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi, Google chief scientist Jeff Dean,…
Zongheng Yang and Ion Stoica launched SkyPilot on Tuesday with a $20 million seed led by Lux Capital, turning a UC Berkeley open-source project into a commercial control plane for AI teams running GPU…
SkyPilot, a startup cofounded by Databricks cofounder Ion Stoica and Zongheng Yang, publicly launched today with $20 million in seed funding led by Lux Capital, with Coatue and Amplify Partners also p…
Arena, the crowdsourced AI leaderboard that began as a UC Berkeley research project, has reached $100 million in annualized revenue eight months after launching its paid evaluation service. The platfo…
Arena, the AI leaderboard platform that originated as a UC Berkeley research project, has reached $100 million in annualized run-rate revenue just eight months after launching its commercial service. …
Ion Stoica, a UC Berkeley professor and co-founder of Databricks, delivered a keynote at Alumni House tracing how research problems led to foundational technologies like Apache Spark and Ray, which po…