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SpaceXAI's Grok 4.5 ranked fourth on Artificial Analysis' Intelligence Index, scoring 54 behind Fable 5, GPT-5.5, and Opus 4.8. The model showed strong cost efficiency at $0.31 per task and competitive coding-agent perfo…
Singapore virtual telcos Circles.Life and giga! are bundling unlimited access to premium AI chatbots into mobile plans starting at $8 and $13.90 per month, undercutting standalone AI subscriptions like ChatGPT Plus. The …
Manifund and its partners have launched four new AI safety funding opportunities, including a $1 million grant round, a microgrant program by Leo Gao, a creator fellowship called Frame, and an incubator called Surplus. T…
Anthropic's expansion into science tooling and drug discovery is raising enterprise competition concerns among clients who worry the AI vendor may become a competitor. The concerns, reported by BetaKit and STAT, center o…
SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.5, its most intelligent AI model designed for coding and agentic tasks, trained on tens of thousands of Nvidia GB300 GPUs. The model is immediately available through Cursor, Grok Build, and the S…
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5, its first AI model under the new brand, claiming superior efficiency and cost at $2 per million input tokens, but the model trails competitors on benchmarks and is linked to past controversies…
XAI rebranded to SpaceXAI after SpaceX's June IPO, releasing Grok 4.5 with claimed pricing of $2 per 1M input tokens and $6 per 1M output tokens. Elon Musk stated the model is an "Opus-class model, but faster, more token…
Crypto venture firm Paradigm raised a $1.2 billion fourth fund to invest in AI, robotics, crypto, and other technologies, broadening its focus beyond digital assets. The firm, which has backed companies like Nous Researc…
Intel-backed AI chip startup SambaNova released third-party benchmarks showing its heterogeneous compute platform, combining Nvidia H200 GPUs and SambaNova SN50 RDUs, achieves 763 tokens per second on the MiniMax M2.7 mo…
Bank of America reversed its earlier decision and extended OpenAI a $520 million credit line, its first loan to the company, weeks before OpenAI is expected to pursue a US listing. The reversal reflects the bank's strate…
Nvidia is partnering with chip startup d-Matrix to combine its GPUs with d-Matrix's Corsair inference accelerators in a joint system for AI workloads, with cloud firm Parasail as the first customer. The deal reflects Nvi…
Thomas Dohmke, former CEO of GitHub, launched Entire, a new Git hosting network designed to handle the infrastructure demands of AI coding agents. Entire allows developers to mirror GitHub repos, reducing strain on GitHu…
Five startups and small companies with 20 to 70 employees replaced Salesforce and HubSpot contracts with AI-built apps from Anthropic, Lovable, and Replit, cutting software costs by 40% to 80%. Gartner estimates $234 bil…
XAI launched Grok 4.5 on July 9, pricing it at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens to undercut Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8. The model, built on a 1.5 trillion parameter mixture-of-experts foundat…
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 tokens and $6 per mi…
Sourcerer, a San Francisco-based startup founded by Peter Cetale and Robert Magee, aims to replace traditional procurement software by acting as the supplier of record for physical goods, using AI agents to handle sourci…
Sunrun launched a pilot program that installs AI compute nodes in homes with solar panels and battery storage, paying homeowners to host the hardware and selling computing capacity to enterprise customers for AI inferenc…
Bank of America has extended a $520 million loan to OpenAI to support infrastructure expansion as the AI company prepares for a potential IPO, with market speculation pointing to a 2027 public debut. The loan highlights …
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 approach, which use…
Anthropic PBC, the AI company behind the Claude chatbot, has reportedly reached a $965 billion valuation following its Series H funding round led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital. The valua…