AI Daily Brief — 3 April 2025
Liberation Day fallout day. NVIDIA -7.6% intraday, AMD -8.9%, Broadcom -10%, Micron -16% as chip stocks crater. HSBC cuts NVDA to Hold. Counterpoint: Midjourney ships V7…
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AI Daily Brief — 2 April 2025
Trump declares 'Liberation Day' — 10% baseline tariff plus reciprocal rates of 11-50% on 57 trading partners. NVIDIA falls 4.7%, AMD 4.5%. Anthropic launches Claude for…
AI Daily Brief — 1 April 2025
Sam Altman teases OpenAI's first open-weight model since GPT-2 — public feedback form opened. OpenAI Academy launches as a free AI learning platform. Amazon unveils Nova…
AI Daily Brief — 31 March 2025
OpenAI closes $40B SoftBank-led round at $300B post-money — largest private tech raise on record, with a December restructuring cliff. Runway ships Gen-4 with reference-image character…
AI Daily Brief — 30 March 2025
Sam Altman tweets 'can yall please chill on generating images, this is insane, our team needs sleep.' The Ghibli wave peaks. OpenAI $40B SoftBank-led round wired…
AI Daily Brief — 29 March 2025
Quiet Saturday — the Studio Ghibli wave keeps cresting and OpenAI's rate limits stay in effect. No frontier-lab releases, no funding rounds dated to the day.…
AI Daily Brief — 28 March 2025
xAI acquires X in all-stock merger — $80B for xAI, $33B for X, combined entity $113B under xAI Holdings Corp. CoreWeave (CRWV) debuts on Nasdaq at…
AI Daily Brief — 27 March 2025
Anthropic ships a landmark double-paper on Claude 3.5 Haiku's internal mechanisms — circuit tracing, multistep planning, cross-linguistic generalization. CoreWeave prices its IPO at $40/share, raising $1.5B…
AI Daily Brief — 26 March 2025
OpenAI delays 4o image gen rollout to Free tier as demand 'wayyyy more popular than we expected.' Alibaba open-sources Qwen2.5-Omni-7B end-to-end multimodal model under Apache 2.0.…
AI Daily Brief — 25 March 2025
Frontier collision day. OpenAI ships native 4o image generation in ChatGPT and Sora, killing DALL-E 3. Google DeepMind drops Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental — #1 on…
AI Daily Brief — 24 March 2025
DeepSeek drops V3-0324 on Hugging Face with no model card, no blog, MIT license, 685GB weights — Aider polyglot jumps 9.3, AIME jumps 19.8. Runs on…
AI Daily Brief — 23 March 2025
Quiet Sunday before a big Monday. Western press finally catches up on Tencent's Hunyuan-T1 reasoning model. xAI Grok standalone app continues weekend rollout. No fresh announcements…
AI Daily Brief — 22 March 2025
Quiet Saturday after a heavy GTC week. xAI launches a standalone Grok iOS app, decoupling the chatbot from X for the first time. No major frontier-lab…
AI Daily Brief — 21 March 2025
Tencent ships Hunyuan-T1 — first ultra-large hybrid Mamba-Transformer MoE reasoning model, matching DeepSeek-R1 and beating GPT-4.5 on MMLU-Pro at ~99% lower price than o1. NVIDIA closes…
AI Daily Brief — 20 March 2025
NVIDIA hosts inaugural Quantum Day at GTC with D-Wave, IonQ, Rigetti, Quantinuum, PsiQuantum and others sharing a stage. Anthropic ships web search for Claude. Foxconn showcases…
AI Daily Brief — 19 March 2025
GTC Day 3 fans out: Llama Nemotron Nano/Super/Ultra open reasoning models, Dynamo inference framework, Newton physics engine with DeepMind and Disney, Spectrum-X silicon photonics, NVAQC Boston…
AI Daily Brief — 18 March 2025
Jensen's GTC keynote: Blackwell Ultra GB300, Vera Rubin roadmap to 2027, Isaac GR00T N1 open humanoid model, Dynamo open inference framework, Newton physics engine with DeepMind…
AI Daily Brief — 17 March 2025
Mistral Small 3.1 24B drops with Apache 2.0 license, 128K context and multimodal. Roblox open-sources Cube 3D foundation model. NVIDIA GTC 2025 + GDC 2025 both…
AI Daily Brief — 16 March 2025
Baidu releases Ernie 4.5 and X1 reasoning model. NVIDIA GTC 2025 opens with pre-conference workshops in San Jose ahead of Jensen's keynote on Tuesday. Otherwise a…
AI Daily Brief — 15 March 2025
Quiet Saturday before NVIDIA GTC 2025. White House AI Action Plan public comment window closes at midnight with 10,000+ submissions logged. The industry holds its breath…
AI Daily Brief — 14 March 2025
Apple Siri chief Robby Walker calls AI delays 'ugly and embarrassing' in leaked all-hands. Sesame CSM-1B continues echoing through speech-AI press. The industry holds its breath…
AI Daily Brief — 13 March 2025
Cohere releases Command A — 111B parameters, 256K context, runs on 2 H100s. Sesame open-sources CSM-1B conversational speech model under Apache 2.0. Insilico Medicine closes $110M…
AI Daily Brief — 12 March 2025
Google releases the Gemma 3 family (1B/4B/12B/27B) — multimodal, 128K context, 140 languages. DeepMind unveils Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robotics-ER. Sakana AI's AI Scientist-v2 passes ICLR…
AI Daily Brief — 11 March 2025
OpenAI's full agent stack lands: Responses API, open-source Agents SDK, plus built-in web search, file search and computer-use tools. Celestial AI raises $250M Series C1 at…