Ollama, an open source AI developer tool, raised $65 million in Series B funding led by Theory Venture, bringing its total funding to $88 million. The company, which helps developers run open-weight A…
Character.AI is launching its own microdrama series featuring AI characters, with an interactive twist allowing users over 18 to chat with and roleplay with the characters. The startup aims to eventua…
Swedish vibe-coding startup Lovable is in talks to raise $300 million at a $13.2 billion valuation, doubling its December valuation, with Menlo Ventures expected to lead the round. The company, which …
Google's SynthID deepfake detection system successfully identified a hoax image of Senator Mitch McConnell as AI-generated, debunking the widely circulated fake. The image, which showed McConnell in a…
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5, a new AI model that founder Elon Musk described as an 'Opus-class model' comparable to Anthropic's Claude Opus but faster and cheaper. The model costs $2 per million input …
General Intuition, a startup led by CEO Pim de Witte, raised $320 million at a $2.3 billion valuation to develop a foundation model for robotics trained on video game data. The company argues that its…
Google announced a new AI-powered 'Video Remix' tool for Google Photos, enabling users to edit and transform videos with features like cinematic relighting, background swaps, and artistic styles. The …
General Intuition, a Bezos-backed startup valued at $2.3 billion, raised $320 million to train AI agents using video game data, arguing that gaming data better teaches models about physical movement a…
Meta announced an update to its Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses that disables the camera if the recording LED is tampered with, aiming to address privacy concerns. However, the company continues to pursue …
OpenAI released new conversational voice models, GPT-Live-1 and GPT-Live-1 mini, featuring full-duplex capabilities for more natural turn-taking and live translation. The company is replacing its Adva…
Prime Intellect, a startup providing computing power and software tools for building AI agents, raised $130 million in Series A funding at a $1 billion valuation. The round was led by Radical Ventures…
Multiple AI startups, including Mercor, Anthropic, Sierra, Glean, and Gusto, are reporting accelerating revenue growth, reaching billion-dollar milestones in increasingly shorter timeframes. The compa…
General Intuition, a Bezos-backed startup valued at $2.3 billion, closed a $320 million funding round to develop AGI using gaming data, arguing that large language models lack the spatial-temporal und…
Kevin Weil, former OpenAI executive and veteran tech leader, has joined the board of Stoke Space, a Seattle startup building reusable rockets. Weil, an early investor in the company, will help scale S…
French AI startup ZML released a free inference server, ZML/LLMD, that enables open-source large language models to run at peak performance across multiple chip types including Nvidia, AMD, Google TPU…
AI chip maker SambaNova Systems raised $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation in a Series F round led by General Atlantic, five months after its Series E. The company also secured JPMorganChase as an …
Meta launched Muse Image, a free AI image generator developed by Meta Superintelligence Labs, available on Meta AI app, Instagram Stories, and WhatsApp. The tool offers presets, prompt-based editing, …
Decagon CEO Jesse Zhang argues that open-source AI models are not hurting frontier labs like Anthropic, as they serve different lifecycle phases—frontier models for discovery and open-source for produ…
Microsoft has begun using its own in-house MAI models to respond to user prompts in Excel and Word, reducing reliance on OpenAI and Anthropic software as part of a broader industry trend to cut AI cos…
Discord admitted a bug in its AI moderation system wrongfully banned over 8,000 users since May, flagging harmless images like spreadsheets and chessboards as harmful. The company fixed the issue and …