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AI Daily Brief — 14 August 2025

A Cohere-and-legal Thursday. $500M Series D at $6.8B with marquee executive bench. Getty refiled against Stability in CA. GPT-5 quietly winning enterprise. Meta shipped robot-vision research with NASA JPL.

Top stories

  • Cohere raises $500M at $6.8B valuation. Toronto-based enterprise AI led by Radical Ventures and Inovia Capital, with NVIDIA, AMD Ventures and Salesforce Ventures participating. Valuation jumped from $5B to $6.8B; annualized revenue on track to top $200M by year-end. via CNBC
  • Cohere hires Joëlle Pineau as first Chief AI Officer. Long-time head of Meta’s Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) lab and McGill professor who left Meta in May. Oversees AI strategy across research, product and policy, replacing departing research VP Sara Hooker. via TechCrunch
  • Cohere names Francois Chadwick as CFO. Ex-Uber, Shield AI, KPMG alum. IPO-prep style bench addition. via SiliconANGLE
  • Getty Images refiles US copyright lawsuit against Stability AI in N.D. California. Voluntarily dismissed 2023 Delaware federal case, same-day refiled in N.D. California (3:25-cv-06891). Alleges Stability used 12M+ Getty photos without permission. New theory adds trademark dilution and DMCA false CMI claims under California law. via CourtListener
  • CNBC: GPT-5 winning enterprise developer adoption. Doubled developer activity, eightfold jump in reasoning-workload usage. Cursor, Vercel, JetBrains, Factory, Qodo and GitHub Copilot rolled GPT-5 into default workflows. Pricing reportedly ~7.5x cheaper than Claude Opus 4.1 in some configurations. via CNBC

Who shipped

Cohere shipped capital + execs. Getty shipped a lawsuit refile. Meta AI shipped DINOv2+NASA research.

Open-source pulse

Meta AI published DINOv2 + NASA JPL planetary-rover vision post — “Visual Perception Engine” built on DINOv2 features, multiple task heads share single foundation-model backbone on a Nebula Spot Robot, runs on onboard NVIDIA Orin AGX. Cuts GPU compute/memory for multi-task robot perception. via Meta AI

Money, infra & hardware

Cohere round signals tightening NVIDIA/AMD alignment in enterprise-LLM stack — Cohere pitches “ROI not AGI” for regulated enterprises. Altman publicly committed to GPT-5 personality update — “feel warmer than the current personality but not as annoying as GPT-4o” — and surfaced new Auto/Fast/Thinking model-selector controls. via WebProNews

Quiet corners

Google deprecated gemini-embedding-exp-03-07 experimental embedding model per official Gemini API changelog — part of wind-down ahead of GA Gemini embedding line. EFF published widely cited civil-liberties analysis arguing Trump’s July “Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government” EO pressures AI vendors to modify outputs and risks chilling effect on bias mitigation. via EFF

By the numbers

  • $500M / $6.8B / $5B — Cohere round / new / prior valuation
  • $200M+ — Cohere projected end-2025 ARR
  • 12M+ — Getty photos at issue in Stability lawsuit
  • 2x / 8x / ~7.5x — GPT-5 dev usage / reasoning workloads / cheaper vs Opus 4.1
  • 3:25-cv-06891 — Getty v. Stability AI N.D. Cal. case number

Compiled by AI Feed’s editor from verified web sources for 14 August 2025.