1X Robotics 1X Unveils NEO: A Humanoid Robot for the Home By Chris McKay • Aug 30, 2024 What stands out most in these demonstrations is not just what NEO does, but how it does it—silently, efficiently, and with a level of dexterity that appear convincingly human-like.
Cohere Cohere Unveils Major Updates to Command R Model Series By Richard Banfield • Aug 30, 2024 The standard Command R model now rivals its larger predecessor, Command R+, in overall performance. This upgrade brings a 50% increase in throughput and a 20% reduction in latency, all while halving its hardware footprint.
Amazon Anthropic Claude Amazon’s New ‘Remarkable Alexa’ to Be Powered by Anthropic’s Claude AI By Richard Banfield • Aug 30, 2024 The partnership could mirror Apple's strategy, announced at WWDC in June, which integrates ChatGPT into Siri as part of the new Apple Intelligence suite in iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia.
OpenAI NVIDIA Apple Venture Capital NVIDIA and Apple in Talks to Join OpenAI’s Multibillion-Dollar Funding Round By Chris McKay • Aug 29, 2024 The funding round, reportedly led by existing shareholder Thrive Capital, is expected to value OpenAI at over $100 billion, up from its current $86 billion valuation.
Meta Meta AI Hits 400 Million Monthly Users By Chris McKay • Aug 29, 2024 These numbers highlight Meta's advantage in being able to leverage its massive user base (0ver 3 billion people daily) across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
Venture Capital Startups Magic Secures $320M Funding, Partners with Google Cloud for AI Supercomputers By Chris McKay • Aug 29, 2024
Venture Capital Startups Codeium Raises $150 Million in Series C Round, Hits $1.25 Billion Valuation By Richard Banfield • Aug 29, 2024
AI Policy AI Safety California AI Safety Bill Clears Assembly, Awaits Final Approval By Chris McKay • Aug 28, 2024
Google Gemini You Can Now Create Gems, Your Own Custom AI Experts, in Gemini By Chris McKay • Aug 28, 2024
Chips AI Infrastructure Cerebras Launches Game-Changing AI Inference Service By Chris McKay • Aug 27, 2024
OpenAI AI Safety OpenAI Has Demonstrated "Strawberry" AI Capabilities to U.S. National Security Officials By Chris McKay • Aug 27, 2024
EU Enterprise AI Aleph Alpha Announces PhariaAI: A Sovereign, Enterprise-Grade AI Operating System By Chris McKay • Aug 27, 2024
EU Open Source Aleph Alpha Releases Pharia: Open-Weight, EU-Compliant, AI Models By Chris McKay • Aug 27, 2024
IBM Enterprise AI IBM Unveils Telum II Processor and Spyre AI Accelerator for Next-Gen Mainframes By Chris McKay • Aug 26, 2024
Venture Capital Startups Anysphere Raises $60M For AI-Powered Coding Tool, Cursor By Chris McKay • Aug 23, 2024
Anthropic AI Policy Anthropic Signals Cautious Support for California's AI Bill By Chris McKay • Aug 22, 2024
AI21 Open Source AI21 Releases Jamba 1.5: A Family of Open Models with Long Context and Low Latency By Chris McKay • Aug 22, 2024
AI Policy Lingo Telecom Fined $1 Million for Biden Deepfake Robocall By Richard Banfield • Aug 22, 2024
OpenAI AI Policy OpenAI Joins Opposition to California’s AI Safety Bill By Chris McKay • Aug 22, 2024
Meta AI Policy EU Meta and Spotify CEOs Warn EU AI Regulations Stifle Innovation By Chris McKay • Aug 21, 2024
Anthropic Anthropic Releases Two New Resources for Learning Prompt Engineering By Chris McKay • Aug 21, 2024
OpenAI Media & Entertainment OpenAI Announces Multi-Year Content Partnership with Condé Nast By Richard Banfield • Aug 20, 2024