xAI launches Grok-3 beta and Grok-3 mini, its latest AI models with reasoning, trained on 200K GPUs, or “10x” more compute than Grok-2, for X Premium+ users
Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, late on Monday released its latest flagship AI model, Grok 3, and unveiled new capabilities for the Grok iOS and web apps.
xAI unveils DeepSearch, a reasoning chatbot that explains its thought process for queries and is capable of doing research, brainstorming, and data analysis
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI showed off the updated Grok-3 model, showcasing a version of the chatbot technology …
An interview with Shuhei Yoshida, who led PlayStation Studios from 2008-2019 and left Sony on January 15, on his 31 years at PlayStation, early days, and more
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Huawei launches Mate XT, the industry's first tri-foldable, globally for €3,499, after its China launch in September 2024; the Mate XT has a 10.2-inch display
Huawei on Tuesday held a global launch for the industry's first tri-foldable phone, which analysts said marked a symbolic victory …
Grok-3 hands-on: its thinking capability feels state of the art and rivals OpenAI's o1 pro models, DeepSearch offers a blend of search and reasoning, and more
I was given early access to Grok 3 earlier today, making me I think one of the first few who could run a quick vibe check.
Acer CEO Jason Chen says the company will “probably” raise US laptop prices by 10% “by default” from March 2024 due to Trump's tariffs on Chinese imports
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X raises its Premium+ subscription to $40 per month, or $395 per year, after raising it to $22 per month in December 2024, following Grok-3's launch
Hours after Elon Musk's AI company, xAI released the latest version of its AI model, Grok 3, X has significantly hiked the price …
A look at Apple's quiet pivot to India, where Foxconn now makes the iPhone 16 Pro; sources say China views Apple's growing business in India with suspicion
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OnePlus unveils the $330 Watch 3, offering a rotating crown, five-day battery life, Wear OS 5, a new GPS antenna, and new health features, shipping February 25
Plus five-day battery life, Wear OS 5, a new GPS antenna, and a host of new health features.
Meta says LlamaCon, its first developer conference dedicated to generative AI, will take place on April 29, and Meta Connect will be held on September 17 and 18
Meta on Tuesday announced that it'll host its first-ever dev conference dedicated to generative AI.
xAI says Grok-3 outperforms Gemini-2 Pro, DeepSeek-V3, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and GPT-4o in some benchmarks; Musk says xAI's mission is to “understand the universe”
by voting with their feet, and the markets— by voting to give Grok dollars It's clearly a SOTA model, and folks who threw shade at Grok research team were mistaken [image] Aaron Levie / @levie : Grok ...
Baidu reports Q4 revenue down 2% YoY to ~$4.7B, above $4.6B est., and a ~$717M net income, above ~$540M est., as its search and AI businesses face competition
Revenue for the three months ended December shrank 2% to 34.1 billion yuan ($4.7 billion), versus an average estimate of 33.4 billion yuan.
Sources: Sam Altman and OpenAI's board weigh governance changes, including special voting rights for its nonprofit board, to deter hostile bids like Musk's
OpenAI is considering granting special voting rights to its non-profit board in order to preserve the power of its directors …
Surj, the sporting arm of Saudi Arabia's PIF, plans to invest $1B in DAZN and a new joint venture with the sports streamer; source: Surj will take a <5% stake
SURJ Sports Investment doesn't just invest for the sake of it. Any deal must add value to the Kingdom and align with its sporting ambitions, not just be a strong Matt Slater / @mjshrimper : In the lat...
Chase plans to stop users making Zelle payments deemed “as originating from contact through social media”; the CFPB had claimed Zelle lacked adequate safeguards
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Source: Ilya Sutskever's startup Safe Superintelligence is raising $1B+ at a $30B+ valuation led by Greenoaks Capital, which plans to invest $500M
that outsmarts humans in a safe way—is heading for a $30 billion-plus valuation The Information : Ilya Sutskever's Startup in Talks to Raise Financing at $30 Billion Valuation Meytal Vaizberg / Globes...
Tel Aviv- and New York-based Blockaid, which offers crypto security tools, raised a $50M Series B led by Ribbit and says it stopped 71M attacks in 2024
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The EU says WhatsApp now faces the DSA's VLOP rules after Meta said on February 14 that Channels had ~46.8M MAUs in the EU in H2 2024, above the 45M threshold
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Bain Capital says it will not launch a tender offer for Fuji Soft, after KKR raised its offer earlier in February for the Japanese IT company, valued at $4B+
Cambridge, UK-based Luminance, which uses AI to draft and review legal documents, raised a $75M Series C led by Point72, after a $40M Series B in April 2024
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Hightouch, which makes AI marketing, sales, and customer service tools, raised an $80M Series C led by Sapphire at a $1.2B valuation, up from $615M in July 2023
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An interview with Nextdoor CEO Nirav Tolia on building the “next Nextdoor”, not licensing data to AI firms for now, his relationship with Bill Gurley, and more
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How militaries and startups like North.io use AI to analyze data and deploy autonomous underwater vehicles to safeguard deep-sea pipelines and cables
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