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AI experts Anima Anandkumar and Benedikt Jenik, who were expected to lead Jeff Bezos's Project Prometheus, have instead launched Accelerated Understanding Inc., a company developing a physics-based AI model that can proc…
Accelerated Understanding Inc, founded by AI researchers Anima Anandkumar and Benedikt Jenik, unveiled a physics-first model that processes 5 trillion data points in a single prompt, claiming capacity roughly 5 million t…
Anima Anandkumar and Benedikt Jenik launched Accelerated Understanding on Tuesday, August 25, with a physics-focused foundation model that predicts physical systems across space and time, targeting semiconductor design, …
Accelerated Understanding Inc, co-founded by Anima Anandkumar and Benedikt Jenik, unveiled an AI model that can process 5 trillion data points in a single prompt, about 5 million times more than Anthropic and Google's fl…
Mario Draghi's newly launched Rhine Group, a think tank aimed at restoring Europe's technological edge, has opened its headquarters in Switzerland and uses US tech infrastructure, drawing criticism for its choices. The g…
Srikar Srinivasan, a 21-year-old Babson College student and cofounder of Arcangel, an AI-driven intellectual-property platform, has started three companies since age 14, selling his first, Comzys, for a six-figure sum to…
LYNOOK Technology, founded in Shenzhen in 2026, is launching a desktop companion product that combines hardware with an 'AI character small world' to extend the lifecycle of AI companions beyond the industry average of f…
Lunar co-founders Ken Villum Klausen, Peter Andreasen, and Joachim Strojer Hansen, along with state-authorized auditor Anders Houmann, raised €8.2 million in pre-seed funding for their new AI-native audit firm Repodo, an…
OpenAI has secured a $122 billion funding round, positioning it among the highest-valued private AI companies, as CEO Sam Altman described AI compute as 'the most expensive infrastructure project in history.' The company…
Chinese developers including DeepSeek, Alibaba's Qwen, and Moonshot's Kimi are releasing increasingly capable open-weight AI models at a fraction of the cost charged by American frontier laboratories, signaling the start…
Investors predict a surge of initial public offerings (IPOs) on Wall Street, with companies including Switch, SB Energy, Oura, and Inspire Brands considering listings this year, according to The Wall Street Journal. The …
Hightouch, a customer-data-platform-turned-agentic-marketing-system that raised $150 million in a Series D in April and is valued at $2.75 billion, has hired Jitendra Kumar, a 20-year Google veteran who most recently led…
XPeng's robotics business raised over $900 million at a post-money valuation above $6.3 billion, led by IDG Capital with participation from Gaorong Ventures and strategic investments from Tencent and Alibaba. The funding…
Hugging Face is fielding acquisition bids at nearly triple its 2023 valuation, reportedly around $13 billion, after rejecting a $500 million investment from Nvidia to avoid a dominant shareholder. Meanwhile, Leopold Asch…
Anthropic's most advanced AI model, Fable 5, accounts for only 11% of enterprise spending on the company's tools, according to data from fintech firm Ramp. Enterprises are opting for cheaper models like Opus 4.8, which s…
Chinese AI chipmaker Enflame Technology will open share subscriptions on September 2 for a 6 billion yuan ($892.21 million) initial public offering on Shanghai's STAR Market, according to a regulatory filing. The Shangha…
Hugging Face's annualized revenue run rate surpassed $150 million after a 50% increase in two months, driven by demand for paid compute, storage, and subscriptions, according to Salesforce Ventures. The company, which ra…
Generalist AI Inc., a startup developing AI software for robots, has reportedly raised $200 million in funding, with 8VC leading the round and participation from unnamed existing investors. The company's previous $400 mi…
Embedd Ltd., a physical artificial intelligence chip infrastructure startup, has raised $2.7 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Seedcamp, with participation from Cocoa, Connect Ventures, 2100 Ventures, Vesna Capi…
Sierra, the customer-facing AI platform, announced it is opening an office in Seoul, South Korea, to serve the country's complex businesses. The company, which partners with one in three of the world's leading banks and …