May 1, 2025 News
FutureHouse, an Eric Schmidt-backed nonprofit, has launched a platform with four AI tools designed to support scientific research: Crow, Falcon, Owl, and Phoenix. Despite ambitious claims about accelerating scientific di...
Ai2 Releases High-Performance Small Language Model Under Open License
Nonprofit AI research institute Ai2 has released Olmo 2 1B, a 1-billion-parameter AI model that outperforms similarly-sized models from Google, Meta, and Alibaba on several benchmarks. The model is available under the pe...
Nvidia and Anthropic Clash Over AI Chip Export Controls
Nvidia and Anthropic have taken opposing positions on the US Department of Commerce's upcoming AI chip export restrictions. Anthropic supports the controls, while Nvidia strongly disagrees, arguing that American firms sh...
Anthropic Enhances Claude with New App Connections and Advanced Research Capabilities
Anthropic has introduced two major features for its Claude AI chatbot: Integrations, which allows users to connect external apps and tools, and Advanced Research, an expanded web search capability that can compile compre...
Microsoft Launches Powerful Small-Scale Reasoning Models in Phi 4 Series
Microsoft has introduced three new open AI models in its Phi 4 family: Phi 4 mini reasoning, Phi 4 reasoning, and Phi 4 reasoning plus. These models specialize in reasoning capabilities, with the most advanced version ac...
Amazon Releases Nova Premier: High-Context AI Model with Mixed Benchmark Performance
Amazon has launched Nova Premier, its most capable AI model in the Nova family, which can process text, images, and videos with a context length of 1 million tokens. While it performs well on knowledge retrieval and visu...
Major AI Labs Accused of Benchmark Manipulation in LM Arena Controversy
Researchers from Cohere, Stanford, MIT, and Ai2 have published a paper alleging that LM Arena, which runs the popular Chatbot Arena benchmark, gave preferential treatment to major AI companies like Meta, OpenAI, Google,...