Startups Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati Launches Thinking Machines Lab with AI Veterans By Chris McKay • Feb 18, 2025 Thinking Machines Lab is focused on making AI systems more customizable, advancing foundational AI technologies, and promoting open science.
OpenAI Research OpenAI's New Benchmark Tests AI Models Against Real-World Software Engineering Tasks By Chris McKay • Feb 18, 2025 OpenAI has launched SWE-Lancer, a benchmark evaluating AI models on over 1,400 real-world software engineering tasks sourced from Upwork, collectively worth $1 million in payouts.
xAI Grok Elon Musk's xAI Unveils Grok 3, Claims State-of-the-Art Performance By Chris McKay • Feb 18, 2025 Grok 3 outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Google’s Gemini in early benchmarks, and comes with new features like DeepSearch and voice mode.
Perplexity Perplexity AI Unveils Free Deep Research Tool By Chris McKay • Feb 14, 2025 Perplexity AI has launched Deep Research, a free tool that autonomously conducts in-depth research, synthesizing information into comprehensive reports—positioning itself as a strong competitor to OpenAI and Google Gemini’s paid offerings.
xAI Elon Musk’s xAI Eyes $10B in New Funding at $75B Valuation By Chris McKay • Feb 14, 2025 xAI is in talks to raise $10 billion in funding, which would push its valuation to around $75 billion, with existing investors like Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and Valor Equity Partners considering participation.
UK Anthropic UK Rebrands AI Safety Institute to Focus on National Security Risks By Chris McKay • Feb 13, 2025
Google Video AI Google DeepMind’s Veo 2 Brings AI Video Generation to YouTube Shorts By Chris McKay • Feb 13, 2025
Venture Capital Startups Can Tofu Solve Martech Bloat? Investors Bet $12M on It By Chris McKay • Feb 13, 2025
Venture Capital Startups Chips EnCharge AI Raises $100M to Bring Energy-Efficient AI Chips to Market By Chris McKay • Feb 13, 2025
Cohere Media & Entertainment Major News Publishers Sue AI Startup Cohere Over Copyright Violations By Chris McKay • Feb 13, 2025
Apptronik Robotics Venture Capital Google Backs Apptronik in $350M Funding Round for Humanoid Robots By Chris McKay • Feb 13, 2025
OpenAI Elon Musk Says He’ll Drop $97.4 Billion OpenAI Bid—If It Remains Nonprofit By Chris McKay • Feb 13, 2025
Venture Capital Startups Biotech & Health Latent Labs Raises $50M to Bring AI-Designed Proteins to Drug Discovery By Chris McKay • Feb 12, 2025
OpenAI AI Safety OpenAI Updates Model Spec to Better Balance User Freedom with Safety Guardrails By Chris McKay • Feb 12, 2025
Enterprise AI Glean Expands Work AI Platform with Enterprise-Wide Agent Capabilities By Chris McKay • Feb 12, 2025
Apple China Alibaba Apple Reportedly Partners with Alibaba for AI in China By Chris McKay • Feb 11, 2025
AI Safety Responsible AI OpenAI Google Google, OpenAI, Roblox, and Discord Form Child Safety Group to Combat Online Child Exploitation in the AI Era By Chris McKay • Feb 10, 2025
OpenAI OpenAI's Super Bowl Debut Frames AI as Next Chapter in Human Innovation By Chris McKay • Feb 10, 2025
France AI Infrastructure France Announces €109 Billion AI Investment Package to Compete with US By Chris McKay • Feb 10, 2025
France AI Infrastructure Brookfield Commits €20 Billion to AI Infrastructure in France By Chris McKay • Feb 9, 2025
