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We continue our series about model distillation. In the AI of the Week, we are going to discuss OpenAI’s recent analysis of coding benchamarks.
More than three years after ChatGPT’s launch brought generative AI into the mainstream, OpenAI is broadening its focus beyond individual users to families. OpenAI is hiring a dedicated product manager in San Francisco to build experiences for families, caregivers, and older adults across its products.
So dancing bugs got upstaged by kpop girls , there’s the whole Bun vs Zig drama , and yesterday’s ChatGPT/Codex superapp launch was bumpier than expected , and the reset button was pressed a couple times to compensate. After buying Statsig and making a big deal out of GPT5’s routing/getting rid of the model picker , the main issue now is that GPT 5.6’s…
Open source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue . The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI in recent years, where AI builders can share and download open models and datasets, now used by roughly half the Fortune 500.
Open source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue . The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI in recent years, where AI builders can share and download open models and datasets, now used by roughly half the Fortune 500.
On any other day, the launch of a surprisingly good/competitive Muse Spark 1.1 from Meta Superintelligence Labs, including, for the first time, in the Meta Model API (signaling high confidence for broad usage and third party testing which is bearing out in their sister models ), would deserve title story status, but they had the misfortune of going up…
OpenAI is already shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its browser that could do tasks for you on your behalf, less than a year after launching it. Atlas was announced in October , but as part of its wave of news about ChatGPT Work today , the company confirmed that it will be “sunsetting” Atlas and is targeting an August 9th date for deprecation.
Fidji Simo, OpenAI’s No. 2 executive, is stepping down from her full-time role, The Wall Street Journal reports .
OpenAI unveiled its newest family of models on Thursday, introducing a set of heavyweight programs into an increasingly crowded field of AI offerings. GPT-5.6 comes in three variants: Sol (considered its workhorse), Terra (a more intermediate option), and Luna (its budget-friendly option).
Three years ago, Sequoia partner David Cahn was one of the first people to do the math and put a number on the implications of Silicon Valley’s titanic spend on AI infrastructure. In 2023 , he was reacting to Nvidia’s reported annual GPU revenue of $50 billion.
Should Anthropic trust Elon Musk to host its models? After users on X implied that Musk could wake up one day and simply boot the AI lab from SpaceX’s servers as a way to kneecap a rival, Musk replied with glowing praise for the AI lab.
OpenAI is already shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its browser that could do tasks for you on your behalf, less than a year after launching it. Atlas was announced in October , but as part of its wave of news about ChatGPT Work today , the company confirmed that it will be “sunsetting” Atlas and is targeting an August 9th date for deprecation.
Meta publicly launched a new version of Muse Spark on Thursday, a multimodal AI model designed for agentic coding that aims to compete with similar products offered by OpenAI and Anthropic. Spark 1.1, the first version of which was announced in April , can engage in multistep reasoning and handle complex processes, manage digital workflows, and deploy new…
OpenAI is rolling out its latest advanced LLM, Sol, for wide public access. Sol is considered to be at least on par with Anthropic’s Fable, a model whose capabilities (or ownership) stressed out the White House enough that it was briefly banned from public access.
Gradium, a Paris-based startup that offers voice AI models, reopened its seed round to new investors, including Nvidia, and has now raised $100 million total for the round, it said Thursday . The company is using the cash to open an office in the Bay Area and compete for talent there, “strengthening its position at the heart of the world’s leading AI…
In a bid to lower its GPU costs amid an unprecedented component shortage, Meta is on track to start making the latest versions of its AI-specific chip in September, Reuters reported , citing an internal memo. At least one chip sailed through its testing phase in about six weeks, the memo said.
The popularity of Spotify Wrapped has kicked off a wide range of year-in-review features, on apps from YouTube to Uber — and now, the lookback trend has come to AI. Anthropic on Thursday announced a “reflect” feature for its Claude chatbot, allowing users to see an analysis of their usage data over the past month, three months, six months, or year.
About two weeks after OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 was caught up in regulatory drama — rolled out only to government-approved organizations during a “limited preview” period — the company has received the Trump administration’s greenlight for a public rollout of the model. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called it “the best model we have ever produced.” To celebrate, OpenAI…
Windows 11 updates could soon include fixes for more security issues at once. Microsoft said in a blog post on Thursday that it’s now using AI to “identify potential issues earlier,” which means “customers will see a higher volume of security updates included in each security release.” Hackers, even amateurs, have increasingly been using AI to quickly…
S ilicon Valley is still riding high on what seems like an unending wave of Wall Street enthusiasm. Investments in artificial intelligence continue to eclipse expectations, with Bloomberg reporting that financiers plan to plow some $700 billion into the industry this year alone.
After reentering the AI race with its first in-house Muse Spark model in April, Meta is now opening up the doors to developers with a new model that can plug into AI coding software with the new Meta Model API. Meta says that Muse Spark 1.1 is a “step-change” from the first generation, with improvements based on feedback from developers.
We’ve talked before about the hot IPO summer , but with SpaceX just launched to public markets and Anthropic and (maybe) OpenAI soon to come, it can be easy to miss the sheer scale of what’s happening. We got a good reminder of it in Wednesday’s NCVA-Pitchbook Venture Monitor report .
At a time when AI backlash and data center protests are making headlines, Anthropic’s Claude is rolling out a new feature that subtly makes the case for why you should keep using it. On Thursday, the company introduced “Reflect,” a built-in dashboard that lets you track and visualize how you use Claude and your broader AI habits.
The popular open source AI tool Ollama has raised a $65 million Series B, led by Theory Ventures, founder and CEO Jeff Morgan tells TechCrunch. This round follows a previous $15 million Series A led by Benchmark’s Peter Fenton.
The popularity of Spotify Wrapped has kicked off a wide range of year-in-review features, on apps from YouTube to Uber — and now, the lookback trend has come to AI. Anthropic on Thursday announced a “reflect” feature for its Claude chatbot, allowing users to see an analysis of their usage data over the past month, three months, six months, or year.