Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has added two prominent ex-OpenAI leaders as advisers: Bob McGrew, former chief research officer, and Alec Radford, a pioneering researcher...
A Meta executive has refuted accusations that the company artificially boosted its Llama 4 AI models' benchmark scores by training on test sets. The controversy emerged from unverified social media claims and observation...
OpenAI is reportedly considering acquiring io Products, an AI hardware startup co-founded by former Apple design chief Jony Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, for approximately $500 million. The startup, which has received f...
OpenAI has reversed its previous decision to cancel the consumer launch of its o3 reasoning model, now planning to release both o3 and a successor o4-mini in the coming weeks. CEO Sam Altman announced that GPT-5's develo...
Microsoft has reportedly halted or delayed data center development projects across multiple countries including the UK, Australia, and several US states. Despite previously announcing plans to allocate over $80 billion t...
Joelle Pineau, Meta's VP of AI research overseeing the FAIR lab, announced she will leave the company in May after more than two years in the role. Her departure comes as Meta plans to significantly increase AI infrastru...
Qualcomm has acquired the generative AI division of Vietnamese startup VinAI for an undisclosed amount, marking Qualcomm's continued expansion into AI tooling. VinAI, founded by former DeepMind scientist Hung Bui, primar...
OpenAI has closed one of the largest private funding rounds in history, raising $40 billion at a $300 billion post-money valuation, led by SoftBank with participation from Microsoft and other previous investors. Accordin...
OpenAI has announced plans to release its first 'open' language model since GPT-2 in the coming months, with a focus on reasoning capabilities similar to o3-mini. The company is actively seeking feedback from developers,...
OpenAI is reportedly finalizing a massive $40 billion funding round led by SoftBank while simultaneously drawing attention for its new image generator in ChatGPT that can transform images into Studio Ghibli-style art. Th...
