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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…
SpaceXAI will release Grok 4.5 on July 9, claiming Opus-class performance with lower cost and higher token efficiency. Priced at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output tokens, the model targets coding and …
SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.5, an Opus-class model targeting coding and enterprise work, priced at $2 per million input tokens to undercut rivals OpenAI and Anthropic. The model, built with acquired startup Cursor, aims to …
Chutes AI, operating as subnet 64 on the Bittensor network, announced on July 8, 2026, that it completed fully non-blocking decentralized training of a recurrent AI model using its Parallax framework, achieving a quality…
Palantir Technologies reached a $300 billion market capitalization after reporting Q1 2026 revenue of $1.63 billion, up 85% year-over-year, driven by strong adoption of its Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP). The com…
Bank of America extended a $520 million credit line to OpenAI, reversing an earlier rejection, as the AI company prepares for a potential IPO that could value it at nearly $1 trillion. The loan positions BofA as a key ba…
The Federal Open Market Committee minutes indicate a rise in U.S. IPO activity this year, with proceeds expected to fund AI infrastructure investments following SpaceX's record-breaking IPO. OpenAI and Anthropic are amon…
Rilla, an AI startup making sales coaching software, spends $1.7 million annually on housing stipends for employees to live near its New York office, requiring a 72-hour work week. CEO Sebastian Jimenez says the perks, i…
Cathie Wood's ARK Invest bought $7 million in SpaceX stock during a dip, funded by selling Alibaba shares, betting on SpaceX's AI and orbital data center potential. The purchase marks ARK's third dip-buy since SpaceX's I…
Anthropic is leasing a 466,000-square-foot building in Manhattan, planning to double its New York City workforce to 1,000 employees by 2026. The AI company, which raised $95 billion in recent funding rounds, also signed …
SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.5, its smartest model yet, as a coding and agentic-work tool priced at $2 per million input tokens. The model outperforms Anthropic's Opus 4.8 on key benchmarks but trails competitors' largest mo…
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 and spatial reasoning…
SpaceXAI and Cursor unveiled a joint AI model trained on SpaceXAI's Colossus infrastructure, targeting coding and knowledge work, weeks after SpaceXAI announced a $60 billion all-stock acquisition of Cursor's parent comp…
SpaceXAI, in collaboration with Cursor, has launched a new AI model targeting finance, legal, and coding tasks, challenging Anthropic and OpenAI. The model follows SpaceX's $60 billion acquisition of Cursor and positions…