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Meta AI Reaches 1 Billion Monthly Users, Plans Monetization Strategy
Meta AI has achieved 1 billion monthly active users across Meta's platforms, doubling from 500 million users in September 2024. CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced plans to focus on personalization, voice conversations, and en...
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has released an updated version of its R1 reasoning AI model on Hugging Face under a permissive MIT license, allowing commercial use. The updated model contains 685 billion parameters, making...
xAI Invests $300M in Telegram Partnership to Integrate Grok Chatbot Across Platform
Elon Musk's xAI is investing $300 million in Telegram to integrate its Grok chatbot throughout the messaging platform for one year. The partnership will make Grok available to all Telegram users with features including c...
SpAItial Raises $13M to Develop Interactive 3D World Generation AI Models
Matthias Niessner, a prominent European AI researcher, founded SpAItial and raised $13 million to develop AI models that generate interactive 3D environments from text prompts. The startup aims to create what Niessner ca...
OpenAI Upgrades Operator Agent with Advanced o3 Reasoning Model
OpenAI is upgrading its Operator AI agent from GPT-4o to a model based on o3, which shows significantly improved performance on math and reasoning tasks. The new o3 Operator model has been fine-tuned with additional safe...
OpenAI Acquires Jony Ive's Device Startup for $6.5B to Develop AI Hardware
OpenAI acquired Jony Ive and Sam Altman's device startup "io" for $6.5 billion in an all-equity deal. The legendary Apple designer will lead creative work at OpenAI through his firm LoveFrom to develop AI-powered consume...
OpenAI Reveals Plans for Compact Screenless AI Device as "Third Core Device" Following Jony Ive Acquisition
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees the company's next major product will be a compact, screenless device that's fully aware of its surroundings, positioned as a "third core device" alongside laptops and phones. The dev...
OpenAI Acquires Jony Ive's Design Company for $6.5B, Aims to Create AI-Powered Consumer Devices
OpenAI has acquired io, a joint venture between CEO Sam Altman and former Apple designer Jony Ive, for $6.5 billion in an all-equity deal. Ive will lead creative and design work at OpenAI, focusing on developing AI-power...
Google Expands Project Mariner AI Agent to Handle Multiple Web-Browsing Tasks Simultaneously
Google is rolling out Project Mariner, an experimental AI agent that browses websites and completes tasks like purchasing tickets or groceries without users visiting sites directly. The updated version runs on cloud virt...
Google Integrates Project Astra's Real-Time Multimodal AI Across Search and Developer APIs
Google announced Project Astra will power new real-time, multimodal AI experiences across Search, Gemini, and developer tools through its Live API. The technology enables low-latency voice and visual interactions, with p...