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By Fumi Nozawa Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence venture xAI continues advancing its Grok chatbot, introducing a new memory function that helps the AI retain information from previous interactions. This development brings Grok closer to competing with established AI assistants like ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini. The recently unveiled feature allows Grok to store and recall details […]

Venture capital investment in startups reached a notable $91.5 billion during the first quarter of 2025, as reported by data analytics firm PitchBook. This sum marked an 18.5% increase compared to the previous quarter and stands as the second-largest quarterly funding amount observed over the past ten years. However, despite these robust figures, Kyle Stanford, […]

Aiming to embed artificial intelligence more deeply within the programming lifecycle, OpenAI has introduced Codex CLI, an AI-powered coding “agent” engineered to operate locally within terminal environments. Announced concurrently with OpenAI’s latest AI models, o3 and o4-mini, on Wednesday, Codex CLI serves as a bridge connecting the company’s sophisticated models with local code repositories and […]

OpenAI unveiled two new artificial intelligence models, o3 and o4-mini, on Wednesday, engineered with a novel capability to deliberate on queries before generating a response. The company positions o3 as its most sophisticated reasoning engine to date, demonstrating superior performance compared to its predecessors across benchmarks evaluating mathematical ability, code generation, logical reasoning, scientific understanding, […]

Codeium, developer of the widely used AI coding assistant known as Windsurf, is reportedly discussing a potential acquisition by OpenAI valued at around $3 billion, according to Bloomberg. Should this transaction proceed, OpenAI would enter into direct competition with several established providers of AI-driven coding assistance technology. This includes Anysphere, the creator of Cursor, a […]

Deck, a startup positioning itself as “the Plaid for the rest of the internet,” has raised $12 million in a Series A funding round. This investment comes approximately nine months after securing its seed financing and marks a total of $16.5 million in funding since its inception in January 2024. Infinity Ventures led the round, […]

Microsoft’s research team has developed the largest-scale 1-bit AI model to date, dubbed BitNet b1.58 2B4T. This model, now openly available under an MIT license, can operate on standard CPUs, including Apple’s M2 chip. Unlike conventional AI models, bitnets are highly compressed, designed to function efficiently on lightweight hardware. Traditional models often employ quantization, reducing […]

Venture capital investments surged to $91.5 billion in Q1 2025, marking the second-highest quarterly funding total in a decade, according to a recent PitchBook report. Despite this seemingly positive trend, analysts like Kyle Stanford, lead U.S. venture capital analyst at PitchBook, warn that the startup ecosystem faces severe challenges ahead. Stanford’s pessimism stems from the […]

OpenAI is expanding its push to integrate AI into software development with the launch of Codex CLI, an open-source coding agent designed to operate directly within terminal interfaces. Introduced alongside the company’s latest AI models (o3 and o4-mini), Codex CLI bridges OpenAI’s AI capabilities with local codebases and computer tasks, enabling models to write, edit, […]

OpenAI has officially unveiled two new AI reasoning models—o3 and o4-mini—engineered to improve problem-solving efficiency by effectively mimicking human-like thinking and analysis. Unlike traditional AI models, these latest additions can leverage ChatGPT’s functionalities like web browsing, Python execution, and image processing to generate responses. OpenAI touts o3 as its most powerful reasoning model yet, outperforming […]

OpenAI said on Monday that it would soon wind down the availability of GPT-4.5, its largest-ever AI model, via its API. GPT-4.5 was released only in late February. Developers will have access to GPT-4.5 via OpenAI’s API until July 14, after which they’ll have to transition to another model in OpenAI’s catalog, the company says. […]

Not even Pokémon is safe from AI benchmarking controversy. Last week, a post on X went viral, claiming that Google’s latest Gemini model surpassed Anthropic’s flagship Claude model in the original Pokémon video game trilogy. Reportedly, Gemini had reached Lavender Town in a developer’s Twitch stream; Claude was stuck at Mount Moon as of late […]

As robotics has advanced, industry has steadily adopted more robots to automate away many kinds of grunt work. More than 540,000 new industrial robots were installed worldwide in 2023, taking the number of total industrial robots active to above 4 million, per IFR. Industrial robots typically excel at repetitive tasks, but they find it challenging […]

In the wake of criticism over the underwhelming performance of its AI products, especially in areas like notification summaries, Apple on Monday detailed how it is trying to improve its AI models by analyzing user data privately with the aid of synthetic data. Using an approach called “differential privacy,” the company said it would first […]

Google’s AI research lab, Google DeepMind, says that it has created an AI model that can help decipher dolphin vocalizations, supporting research efforts to better understand how dolphins communicate. The model, called DolphinGemma, was trained using data from the Wild Dolphin Project (WDP), a nonprofit that studies Atlantic spotted dolphins and their behaviors. Built on […]

OpenAI on Monday launched a new family of models called GPT-4.1. Yes, “4.1” — as if the company’s nomenclature wasn’t confusing enough already. There’s GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano, all of which OpenAI says “excel” at coding and instruction following. Available through OpenAI’s API but not ChatGPT, the multimodal models have a 1-million-token context […]

OpenAI said on Monday that it would soon wind down the availability of GPT-4.5, its largest-ever AI model, via its API. GPT-4.5 was released only in late February. Developers will have access to GPT-4.5 via OpenAI’s API until July 14, after which they’ll have to transition to another model in OpenAI’s catalog, the company says. […]

Not even Pokémon is safe from AI benchmarking controversy. Last week, a post on X went viral, claiming that Google’s latest Gemini model surpassed Anthropic’s flagship Claude model in the original Pokémon video game trilogy. Reportedly, Gemini had reached Lavender Town in a developer’s Twitch stream; Claude was stuck at Mount Moon as of late […]

As robotics has advanced, industry has steadily adopted more robots to automate away many kinds of grunt work. More than 540,000 new industrial robots were installed worldwide in 2023, taking the number of total industrial robots active to above 4 million, per IFR. Industrial robots typically excel at repetitive tasks, but they find it challenging […]