OpenAI said on Monday it has raised $40 billion in a landmark funding round led by Japan's SoftBank Group, marking the largest private capital funding round in tech history and valuing the artificial intelligence company at $300 billion.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/01/2025
Amazon expands access to its latest generative AI models with the launch of nova.amazon.com, a website aimed at developers and technology enthusiasts interested in building applications using its in-house foundation model family, Amazon Nova.
- By John K. Waters
- 03/31/2025
Microsoft has unveiled a major expansion of its AI-driven cybersecurity platform, introducing a suite of autonomous agents to help organizations counter rising threats and manage the growing complexity of cloud and AI security.
- By John K. Waters
- 03/26/2025
In a bid to address rising concerns over teen safety and appropriate usage, Character.AI, a popular chatbot platform, has rolled out a new "Parental Insights" feature aimed at giving parents a window into their children's activity on the platform. The feature, introduced this week, allows users under 18 to share a weekly report of their chatbot interactions directly with a parent's email address.
- By John K. Waters
- 03/26/2025
Google on Tuesday announced the release of Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental, a new artificial intelligence model designed to reason through problems before delivering answers, a shift the company says, that marks a major leap in AI capability.
- By John K. Waters
- 03/25/2025
At its annual GTC 2025 conference, held last week in San Jose, California, AI giant NVIDIA showcased its growing influence by announcing several new collaborations with Microsoft, primarily centered around Microsoft's Azure AI Foundry.
Modern AI systems are under pressure to deliver "inference at scale," said Nvidia CEO and founder Jensen Huang on Tuesday during his GTC conference keynote. Luckily, his company has the hardware for that.
NVIDIA announced on Monday the establishment of a Boston-based research center dedicated to advancing quantum computing through artificial intelligence (AI) and accelerated computing technologies.
- By John K. Waters
- 03/18/2025
At the NVIDIA GTC conference, underway this week in San Jose, California, chipmaker NVIDIA introduced a new range of AI-powered computing solutions aimed at enhancing enterprise performance and efficiency.
AI hardware company Cerebras has partnered with Hugging Face, a leading open-source platform and community for machine learning, to integrate its inference capabilities into the Hugging Face Hub.
- By John K. Waters
- 03/11/2025
French AI startup Mistral AI has introduced Mistral OCR, an advanced optical character recognition (OCR) API designed to convert printed and scanned documents into digital files with "unprecedented accuracy."
- By John K. Waters
- 03/11/2025
Researchers have advanced the capabilities of the Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer (AMIE), an artificial intelligence system for medical reasoning, beyond diagnosis to assist in treating and managing diseases over time.
- By John K. Waters
- 03/11/2025
OpenAI announced on Thursday the launch of GPT-4.5, its latest and largest AI model to date, code-named Orion. The model, trained with more computing power and data than any previous OpenAI release, is available as a research preview to select users.
- By John K. Waters
- 02/28/2025