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Hugging Face retired its own Text Generation Inference (TGI) server in December 2025, directing users to SGLang, a tool that began as a UC Berkeley research paper in 2023 and by 2026 was running on over 400,000 GPUs, gen…
Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, released its first open-weights model called Inkling on July 15, 2026, after raising roughly $2 billion in seed funding and reportedly hitting a $12 billio…
A 23-year-old founder is building an AI-native platform to help intelligence agencies and police departments analyze large volumes of data and counter homegrown terrorism, inspired by the bottleneck exposed during the Bo…
YC-backed Prescience launched on July 21st, claiming its AI-managed health benefits platform can cut employer premiums by roughly 20% while offering $0-deductible plans. Founded by brothers Aditya Jain (MD, Harvard Medic…
Moonshot AI, developer of the Kimi chatbot, plans to begin talks in August for a final pre-IPO funding round targeting a pre-money valuation of up to $50 billion, according to Bloomberg. The company, which could pursue a…
Marc Held, CEO of HOPTEK, an AI-native freight monetization platform, shared insights on successful freight tech exits, drawing from his track record with Green Screens and Turvo. Held is applying his problem-solving app…
A weekend rumor that Anthropic is acquiring robotics startup Physical Intelligence spread rapidly on X, even after Physical Intelligence CEO Karol Hausman denied it via a Slack message containing a gif. The rumor was not…
GMI Cloud, led by Alex Yeh, reported that signed customer commitments pushed contracted annual recurring revenue above $500 million as of July 21st, while live ARR grew 2.4x during the first half of 2026 from its year-en…
OpenAI posted a job listing for a support delivery lead in its ads division that referenced building a publisher-facing ad network, then deleted those references after CMO Insider inquired. The listing originally include…
Adaption launched Teams on July 21st, adding shared compute, centralized billing and member-level controls to its model-building platform. The release turns collaboration and spending controls into product features for g…
Base44, a Wix-owned startup founded by Maor Shlomo, launched a seven-day developer competition on July 21st offering $10,000 to one winner for an application built through an external IDE or AI coding agent and deployed …
American AI labs face an existential threat from low-cost Chinese competitors, according to a report in The Economist. Chinese firms are developing AI models at a fraction of the cost, potentially undercutting U.S. domin…
Curative CEO Fred Turner canceled the health insurer's $600,000-a-year Salesforce CRM contract after building an internal replacement using AI-assisted coding in about two months, according to a 20VC podcast interview an…
Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI is preparing to begin discussions in August on a final pre-IPO fundraising round at a valuation of as much as US$50 billion, capitalizing on the success of its Kimi K3 model. The company expect…
Mistral AI SAS has struck a multibillion-dollar deal with Microsoft Corp. to expand its computing infrastructure in Europe and increase availability of its large language models in the U.S., Microsoft announced today. Az…
Modular, following its acquisition by Qualcomm, is hiring for multiple engineering roles including AI Library Architect, Mojo Compiler Engineer, and Hardware Enablement Engineer to advance its AI infrastructure work on t…
Microsoft and Mistral announced a significant expansion of their strategic partnership, including a multibillion dollar commitment from Microsoft to add GPU infrastructure in Europe and extend access to Mistral's frontie…
OpenAI's Codex and ChatGPT Work have crossed 10 million weekly active users, nearly doubling since early July, according to Bloomberg. The combined figure, reported July 21, reflects rapid adoption after ChatGPT Work lau…
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, and others. The com…
SpaceXAI opened applications Tuesday for an August 8th Grokathon in San Francisco, giving selected developers access to its Grok 4.5 model and X APIs less than a month after releasing the model. The 12-hour in-person hac…