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...
OpenAI has announced it will support Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) across its products, including the ChatGPT desktop app. MCP is an open standard that enables AI models to connect with external data sources a...
At GTC 2025, Nvidia unveiled new chips and products to a record 25,000 attendees while addressing growing challenges including U.S. tariffs, emerging competitors like DeepSeek, and AI clients developing in-house alternat...
AI search startup Perplexity is reportedly in early talks to raise up to $1 billion at an $18 billion valuation, doubling its previous valuation from December. The company, which has reached $100 million in annual recurr...
SoftBank Group is acquiring Ampere Computing, a semiconductor designer specializing in ARM-based server chips, for $6.5 billion in an all-cash deal. This acquisition follows SoftBank's series of AI-focused investments, i...
Several prominent AI leaders including Hugging Face's Thomas Wolf, Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis, Meta's Yann LeCun, and former OpenAI researcher Kenneth Stanley are expressing skepticism about near-term AGI predictio...
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company's Llama AI model family has reached 1 billion downloads, representing a 53% increase over a three-month period. Despite facing copyright lawsuits and regulatory challen...
Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, has acquired Hotshot, a startup specializing in AI-powered video generation technologies similar to OpenAI's Sora. The acquisition positions xAI to integrate video generation capabilities int...
