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Meta Considers $10+ Billion Investment in Scale AI Data Labeling Company
Meta is reportedly in talks to invest over $10 billion in Scale AI, a company that provides data labeling services for training AI models to major tech companies including Microsoft and OpenAI. This would represent Meta'...
Anthropic Raises $3.5 Billion at $61.5 Billion Valuation, Expands Claude AI Platform
Anthropic raised $3.5 billion at a $61.5 billion valuation in March, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. The AI startup has since launched a blog for its Claude models and reportedly partnered with Apple to power a new "...
Anthropic Launches Specialized Claude Gov AI Models for US National Security Operations
Anthropic has released custom "Claude Gov" AI models specifically designed for U.S. national security customers, featuring enhanced handling of classified materials and improved capabilities for intelligence analysis. Th...
Hugging Face Releases Lightweight Open-Source Robotics AI Model SmolVLA
Hugging Face has released SmolVLA, a 450 million parameter open-source AI model for robotics that can run on consumer hardware like MacBooks. The model is designed to democratize access to vision-language-action capabili...
Anthropic Launches AI-Generated Blog "Claude Explains" with Human Editorial Oversight
Anthropic has launched "Claude Explains," a blog where content is primarily generated by their Claude AI model but overseen by human subject matter experts and editorial teams. The initiative represents a collaborative a...
Microsoft Integrates OpenAI's Sora Video Generation Model into Bing for Free Access
Microsoft has integrated OpenAI's Sora video generation model into its Bing app, offering users the ability to create AI-generated videos from text prompts for free. This marks the first time Sora has been made available...
Google has quietly released an experimental app called AI Edge Gallery that allows users to download and run AI models from Hugging Face directly on their Android phones without internet connectivity. The app enables loc...
Hugging Face launches open-source humanoid robots HopeJR and Reachy Mini
Hugging Face announced two new open-source humanoid robots: HopeJR, a full-size robot with 66 degrees of freedom priced at $3,000, and Reachy Mini, a desktop unit costing $250-$300. The company aims to democratize roboti...
DeepSeek Releases Efficient R1 Distilled Model That Runs on Single GPU
DeepSeek released a smaller, distilled version of its R1 reasoning AI model called DeepSeek-R1-0528-Qwen3-8B that can run on a single GPU while maintaining competitive performance on math benchmarks. The model outperform...
DeepSeek's R1-0528 AI Model Shows Enhanced Capabilities but Increased Government Censorship
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek released an updated version of its R1 reasoning model (R1-0528) that nearly matches OpenAI's o3 performance on coding, math, and knowledge benchmarks. However, testing reveals this new version...