Venture Capital Startups Together AI Raises $305M to Expand Its AI Acceleration Cloud By Chris McKay • Feb 20, 2025 Together AI has raised $305 million in a Series B funding round led by General Catalyst, bringing its valuation to $3.3 billion as it scales its AI Acceleration Cloud for open-source and enterprise AI.
Venture Capital Startups Healthcare OpenEvidence Raises $75M to Scale AI for Doctors, Hits $1B Valuation By Chris McKay • Feb 19, 2025 AI-powered medical assistant OpenEvidence has raised $75 million in a Sequoia-led round, pushing its valuation to over $1 billion as it expands its AI copilot for physicians.
Microsoft Media & Entertainment Research Microsoft’s Muse AI Model Can Generate Video Game Environments in Real-Time By Chris McKay • Feb 19, 2025 Microsoft has unveiled Muse, a generative AI model designed to create video game environments that respond to player actions, potentially transforming game development and preservation.
NVIDIA Research Biotech & Health NVIDIA and Arc Institute Introduce Evo 2, A State of the Art Foundation Model for Biology By Chris McKay • Feb 19, 2025 The Arc Institute and NVIDIA unveil Evo 2, the largest AI model for biology ever, trained on 9.3 trillion DNA base pairs from over 128,000 species to advance synthetic biology, medicine, and genome design.
Microsoft Quantum Computing Microsoft Unveils Majorana 1: A Breakthrough Chip in Quantum Computing By Chris McKay • Feb 19, 2025 Microsoft’s Majorana 1 quantum chip, powered by a novel topoconductor material, signals a measured yet significant step toward solving industrial-scale problems in years rather than decades.
Startups Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati Launches Thinking Machines Lab with AI Veterans By Chris McKay • Feb 18, 2025
OpenAI Research OpenAI's New Benchmark Tests AI Models Against Real-World Software Engineering Tasks By Chris McKay • Feb 18, 2025
xAI Grok Elon Musk's xAI Unveils Grok 3, Claims State-of-the-Art Performance By Chris McKay • Feb 18, 2025
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
