Source: Anthropic is preparing to release Claude Opus 4.7, along with a new AI-powered tool for designing websites and presentations, as soon as this week
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Source: OpenEvidence, which offers an AI chatbot for doctors, is raising $250M at a $12B valuation, up from $6B in Oct., and has $150M in annualized ad revenue
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information : X: @steph_palazzolo and @arfurrock X: Stephanie Palazzolo / @steph_palazzolo : New! OpenEvidence, which offers a “ChatGPT for doctors,” is raising at a $12B va...
Reducto, which uses OCR with vision language models to convert complex documents into inputs for LLMs, raised a $75M Series B led by a16z at a $600M valuation
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Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab launches its first product, Tinker, an API for fine-tuning language models, in private beta, with support for Qwen and Llama
Today, we are launching Tinker, a flexible API for fine-tuning language models. Moneycontrol : Ex-OpenAI CEO Mira Murati stealth AI lab launches its first ever product Matthias Bastian / The Decoder :...
Source: Pylon, which uses AI to automate B2B customer service, raised $31M led by a16z and Bain Capital at a valuation in the hundreds of millions of dollars
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information : X: @steph_palazzolo X: Stephanie Palazzolo / @steph_palazzolo : Pylon, a self-described “Zendesk-killer,” has raised $31M from A16Z and BCV at a valuation in t...
Source: Reflection AI, founded by ex-Google researchers and which makes the AI agent Asimov, has raised most of the $1B+ it is seeking to build open-source LLMs
The Information : X: @steph_palazzolo X: Stephanie Palazzolo / @steph_palazzolo : Late night scoop w/ @KevKubernetes @nmasc_: Reflection AI, the 1-yr-old startup founded by DeepMind researchers, is i...
Source: Anthropic offers to buy back shares from current and former employees, the first transaction of its kind for Anthropic, valuing the startup at $61.5B
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Sources: Meta set up four war rooms to analyze High-Flyer's DeepSeek, including two for how High-Flyer cut training costs and one on what data it may have used
“Wait, how much are we spending on research of little/no utility to Meta proper?” — “Wait, what? How much? How many Stanford PhDs did LeCun hire to endlessly fellate his ego?” — “Are you kidding...
Las Vegas police say the man who exploded a Cybertruck outside the Trump hotel used ChatGPT to help plan the attack, including to seek info on explosive targets
police release details on prompts used to decide crucial details Elizabeth Urban / International Business Times : Cybertruck Attack on Trump Hotel Was Planned Using ChatGPT in Disturbing ‘Game Changer...
OpenAI unveils o3 and o3-mini, trained to “think” before responding via what OpenAI calls a “private chain of thought”, and plans to launch them in early 2025
12 Days of OpenAI: Day 12 Naomi Li Gan / Tech in Asia : OpenAI unveils AI model for advanced reasoning Bojan Stojkovski / Interesting Engineering : OpenAI unveils o3 reasoning AI model to tackle compl...