AI chip maker SambaNova raises $1B at $11B valuation, 5 months after last mega round
AI chip maker SambaNova has raised at an $11B valuation months after Intel was rumored to be trying to buy it for about $1.6 billion.
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NVIDIA’s Cosmos-Framework Tutorial: Designing a Colab-Friendly Miniature of Cosmos 3 World Models with Omnimodal Mixture-of-Transformers
In this tutorial, we explore NVIDIA's cosmos-framework from a practical Colab angle while staying honest about the hardware needed for real Cosmos 3 checkpoints. We probe…
Because 8 ≈ e², Anthropic's researcher uplift is plausibly >2x
Note: the modeling assumptions and conclusion are Thomas Kwa’s opinion, and others at METR disagree.1 Also, the math was checked by Claude but not a second…
Ant Group’s Robbyant Open-Sources LingBot-Vision: A 1B Boundary-Centric Vision Foundation Model for Dense Spatial Perception
Ant Group's Robbyant open-sourced LingBot-Vision, a self-supervised ViT family for dense spatial perception. Masked boundary modeling makes image boundaries a native training signal. The 1B backbone…
NVIDIA Releases Audex (Nemotron-Labs-Audex-30B-A3B): A Unified Audio-Text LLM That Preserves the Text Intelligence of Its Backbone
NVIDIA's Nemotron-Labs-Audex-30B-A3B unifies audio understanding, speech recognition, translation, TTS, and audio generation in one MoE model. It keeps the text intelligence of its Nemotron-Cascade-2 backbone with…
Meta rolls out Muse, a new AI image generator
The new image-generating model has numerous use cases, including advertising, decorating and creator-based opportunities.
Why the rise of open source AI isn’t hurting Anthropic … yet
Open-source models’ success isn’t coming at the expense of frontier labs. Instead, they each seem to capture two phases of the same life-cycle.
Microsoft joins AI cost-cutting trend by relying more on its own models
Microsoft is the latest Silicon Valley giant to cut back on its AI spending.
sqlite-utils 4.0, now with database schema migrations
This morning I released sqlite-utils 4.0, the 124th release of that project and the first major version bump since 3.0 in November 2020. In addition to…
Discord admits AI moderation bug wrongfully banned users over harmless images
The company confirmed that the issue had been affecting accounts since May, with an additional 200 users banned over the weekend before its team identified and…
Copilot goes cheap as Microsoft phases out OpenAI and Anthropic models to cut costs
Microsoft is replacing AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic with its own MAI models in products like Excel and Outlook. Tens of thousands of queries per…
Cohere Transcribe Arabic is an open-source model built for Arabic's toughest transcription problems
Cohere has released Transcribe Arabic, an open-source model for Arabic speech recognition that the company says outperforms Whisper and OmniASR on dialects, code-switching, and bilingual Arabic-English…
Anthropic's Claude Cowork AI agent is now available on mobile and web
Anthropic is rolling out its AI agent Claude Cowork to mobile and web. Until now, the feature was limited to the desktop app. The agent keeps…
Liquid AI Open-Sources Antidoom: A Final Token Preference Optimization (FTPO) Method that Reduces Doom Loops in Reasoning Models
Liquid AI released Antidoom, an open-source method that targets doom loops in reasoning models. A doom loop repeats a span until the context window is exhausted.…
sqlite-migrate 0.2
Release: sqlite-migrate 0.2 The version that retires the library, instead implementing a compatibility shim against the new sqlite-utils 4.0 dependency. Tags: sqlite-utils
Claude Cowork expands to mobile and web
With this update, users can start a task from their desk, get status updates on their phone, and pick up the finished output later — even…
github-code Web Component
Tool: github-code Web Component An experimental Web Component built using GPT-5.5 and the following prompt: let's build a Web Component for embedding code from GitHub It…
China eyes export curbs on its top AI models, and Europe is caught in the middle
According to Reuters, Chinese authorities are looking into restricting foreign access to the country's most powerful AI models. Alibaba, Bytedance, and Z.ai would all be affected.…
sqlite-utils 4.0
Release: sqlite-utils 4.0 See sqlite-utils 4.0, now with database schema migrations for details. Tags: sqlite-utils
Claude's hidden inner monologue is now readable thanks to Anthropic's new Jacobian Lens
Anthropic has found that Claude developed an internal working memory on its own during training. The company calls it "J-Space" and can now read it using…
Insilico Medicine advances AI drug for IPF to Phase III trials
Insilico Medicine is advancing to Phase III human trials for testing a drug identified by AI targeting idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). This progression supplies the computational…
Savi’s app aims to protect consumers from realistic AI scams like kidnappers demanding ransom
The company just raised $7 million in seed funding, and is launching its app for iPhone and Android on Tuesday.
Chinese AI models regularly pass 30 percent on OpenRouter as cost gap widens
Chinese AI models are gaining ground with US companies because they cost far less than systems from OpenAI and Anthropic, CNBC reports. The article Chinese AI…
Deepseek is designing its own AI chip
Chinese startup Deepseek is building its own AI chip, Reuters reports. The article Deepseek is designing its own AI chip appeared first on The Decoder.