Nvidia agrees to a licensing deal with Groq; CEO Jonathan Ross and other top executives will join Nvidia; Groq says it will continue operating independently
anybody who knows anything about AI chips knows groq's first gen chips aren't competitive but maybe their upcoming chips might have been able to threaten nvidia? @josephjacks_ : Overly simplistic take...
Xiaomi releases MiMo-V2-Flash, an open-weight MoE model with 309B total and 15B active parameters, saying it excels in reasoning, coding, and agentic scenarios
improve math, break coding. Enhance reasoning, hurt safety. ✅ Solution: Train specialized expert [image] Elie / @eliebakouch : wow, this looks like a very solid open model by Xiaomi, competing with K2...
President Trump signs an executive order aimed at preempting a growing number of state AI laws, saying “we want to have one central source of approval”
Transformer Weekly: Trump signs EO, Hochul guts the RAISE Act, and GPT-5.2 launches Michael Kan / PCMag : Trump Signs Executive Order to Go After ‘Burdensome’ State AI Laws Poligirlsayswhat / Baller A...
Mercor launches the AI Productivity Index (APEX), which evaluates AI models' ability to perform “economically valuable knowledge work”; GPT-5 leads at 64.2%
still not production-ready Nikita Ostrovsky / Time : AI Is Learning to Do the Jobs of Doctors, Lawyers, and Consultants arXiv.org : The AI Productivity Index (APEX) Agnee Ghosh / Bloomberg : OpenAI, A...
Leaked a16z decks: $25B in net returns since its 2009 founding, including $11.2B in 2021, and 56 unicorn investments in the past 10 years, the most of any firm
The firm has held its $900 million 2012 Fund III at 9.4x net TVPI. — ∙ Paid — Andreessen Horowitz is perhaps … X: @iamhenrymascot , @doodcapital , @iamjakestream , @ctjlewis , @dennythedev , @amen...
Source: Figma considered a higher IPO price, but CEO Dylan Field wanted to bring on board certain long-term institutional shareholders and approved $33/share
Should You Chase the Surge or Wait for a Pullback? Fortune : Tech industry insiders share their picks for the next startups who will ride the IPO wave after Figma's blockbuster debut Anna-Louise Jacks...
Z.ai, formerly known as Zhipu and that has raised $1.5B from Tencent and others, releases GLM-4.5, an open-source AI model that it says is cheaper than DeepSeek
chinese models really are taking over huh Simon Willison / @simonwillison.net : Pretty decent pelicans from the new GLM-4.5 and GLM-4.5 Air models. Both models are MIT licensed, released by Chinese A...
Sources: Chinese AI startup Manus raised $75M led by Benchmark at a $500M valuation, and plans to expand to markets including the US, Japan, and the Middle East
incredible launch, incredible product, incredible investors. Sheel Mohnot / @pitdesi : Manus is based in Beijing. Wonder how you underwrite that risk. Perhaps why Gurley has been talking about how we ...
OpenAI rolls out a ChatGPT memory feature that references past chats for answers, starting with ChatGPT Pro and Plus subscribers, but not in the UK and the EEA
and That Changes Everything Rimjhim Singh / Business Standard : OpenAI rolls out ChatGPT memory update, now for pro subscribers only OpenAI : Memory FAQ — Learn more about managing your memories in ...
Baidu releases Ernie X1, an AI model that articulates its reasoning similarly to DeepSeek R1, and upgrades its flagship foundation model to Ernie 4.5, both free
And Costs Half As Much: ‘Excellent Multimodal Understanding Ability’ Nisha Gopalan / Yahoo Finance : China's Baidu Takes on DeepSeek With New AI Model Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE : Baidu debuts its f...