Exclusive: Meta Reassigns Engineers to Improve AI Models
The moves are aimed at helping Meta bring its models to state-of-the-art performance more quickly and “compete in the AI race.”
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Exclusive: Mercor Hit Over $1 Billion in Annualized Gross Revenue Before Breach
The growth occurred before the startup was impacted by a supply chain attack involving open-source project LiteLLM.
CPU Startup SiFive Raises $400 Million
The SiFive funding round was led by Atreides Management with participation from Apollo Global Management, Nvidia and others.
Amazon Considers Selling AI Chips Beyond AWS
Chips business hit an annual run rate of more than $20 billion.
Meta Expands Cloud Deals With CoreWeave to $35 Billion through 2032
Earlier this year Meta signed a deal to spend up to $27 billion renting Nvidia chips from cloud provider Nebius.
Unilever Acquires Supplement Startup Grüns
The deal comes just three years after the gummy vitamin startup was founded.
Tesla Considers Producing Smaller, Cheaper SUV
The plan would be a serious reversal for Tesla—in 2024, CEO Elon Musk killed a plan for a $25,000 SUV to focus instead on robotaxis and humanoid robots.
Alibaba Anonymously Launches New AI Video Model
The HappyHorse-1.0 model has topped an AI model leaderboard, beating ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 model.
D.C. Court Denies Anthropic Motion to Stay Pentagon Blacklisting
The ruling from the circuit court in Washington, D.C., sets up split decisions in Anthropic’s two lawsuits challenging the Pentagon’s designation of it as a supply chain risk.
Workday CTO Joins Anthropic Amid Startup’s Push to Build HR Apps
Peter Bailis, who joined Workday last May as chief technology officer, has jumped to Anthropic to become a member of technical staff.
Exclusive: Former Andreessen General Partner Midha Raises $1.3 Billion
Firm wrote $300 million check in Anthropic
Perplexity’s ARR Rises to $500 Million
Perplexity's growth is the latest sign of how use of AI products is taking off this year among businesses.
Meta Unveils New AI Models
It marks the first AI model release from Meta’s Superintelligence Labs division.
Meta Shutters Internal AI Token Leaderboard
The dashboard showed company-wide AI token usage topped 60 trillion tokens over a recent 30-day period.
Alibaba Streamlines Responsibilities for AI Executive
Jingren Zhou will focus entirely on his AI leadership role as the tech giant faces fierce competition in China.
AWS Partner Caylent Acquires AI Contact Center-Focused Consulting Firm
The deal showcases the growing importance of Amazon Connect, the company's AI-powered contact center management software product.
Musk Seeks to Remove Altman, Brockman from OpenAI Nonprofit
Musk clarified the relief he’s seeking in a new legal filing.
Anthropic Announces AI Cybersecurity Project Powered By Claude Mythos Model
Anthropic will be partnering with more than 40 organizations so they can check their software for security vulnerabilities.
AWS CEO Says Claude Code Won’t Replace SaaS
Matt Garman said the idea that companies could use Claude Code to write software sold by firms like Salesforce was “overblown.”
Microsoft Cloud Exec Joins Anthropic as Head of Infrastructure
Anthropic is facing a computing crunch, and has recently discussed leasing its own data center space.
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