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AWS brings OpenAI’s AI models and Codex programming assistant to its cloud
Amazon Web Services Inc. today made OpenAI Group PBC’s large language models available on its cloud platform. The algorithms are accessible through Amazon Bedrock alongside Codex, the ChatGPT developer’s programming assistant. In addition, AWS is rolling out a new offering called Bedrock Managed Agents. It’s designed to ease the task of building OpenAI-powered AI agents. “This ...
Chip stocks drop on report OpenAI missed ChatGPT growth targets
Shares of Nvidia Corp. and other tech firms dropped today following a report that OpenAI Group PBC had missed its growth targets last year. The Wall Street Journal late Monday cited sources as saying that the company’s 2025 user base gains and revenue fell short of expectations. OpenAI pushed back against the report, calling it ...
Ineffable Intelligence raises $1.1B at $5.1B valuation to build an AI ‘superlearner’
Ineffable Intelligence Ltd., a British artificial intelligence startup founded a few months ago, has raised $1.1 billion in seed funding. The investment values the company at $5.1 billion. CNBC reported today that Lightspeed Ventures and Sequoia Capital led the deal. They were joined by Nvidia Corp., Google LLC, the U.K’s Sovereign AI Fund, DST Global, Index ...
OpenAI and Microsoft revise the terms of their AI partnership
OpenAI Group PBC and Microsoft Corp. have revised several sections of the contract that governs their technology partnership. The update, which was announced today, is at least the third that the companies have made since the start of 2025. The partnership began in June 2019 with a $1 billion investment from Microsoft. Four years later, ...
China blocks Meta’s acquisition of AI agent developer Manus
The Chinese government today ordered Meta Platforms Inc. to scrap its acquisition of artificial intelligence startup Manus. The development comes about five months after the Facebook parent announced the deal. The transaction was reportedly valued between $2 billion and $3 billion. Manus develops an AI agent that can turn financial datasets into presentations, generate websites ...
AI startups Cohere, Aleph Alpha to merge with $600M in new funding
Artificial intelligence startups Cohere Inc. and Aleph Alpha GmbH today announced that they intend to merge. The transaction is backed by Schwarz Group GmbH, Germany’s largest retailer. It plans to lead a funding round into the combined company by making a $600 million “structured financing commitment.” CNBC reported that the Series E deal, which is ...
AWS inks multibillion-dollar AI infrastructure deal with Meta
Amazon Web Services Inc. has inked a multiyear deal to supply Meta Platforms Inc. with cloud infrastructure. Bloomberg reported today that the agreement is worth billions of dollars. The deal centers on AWS’ Graviton family of internally developed central processing units. According to the company, Meta will purchase access to tens of millions of Graviton ...
DeepSeek open-sources V4 large language model series
Chinese artificial intelligence developer DeepSeek today released a new series of open-source large language models. V4, as the algorithm family is called, comprises two LLMs on launch. There’s the flagship V4-Pro and a smaller model called V4-Flash that trades off some output quality for lower hardware usage. Both algorithms are based on a mixture of ...
Software artifact management startup Cloudsmith raises $72M
Cloudsmith Inc., a startup that helps software teams manage application components, has secured $72 million in new funding. The Series C round was led by TCV, which was also the biggest backer of the company’s previous raise last year. Cloudsmith stated in its funding announcement today that the venture fund was joined by other existing ...
OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 with advanced math, coding capabilities
OpenAI Group PBC today launched a new large language model that is significantly better than its predecessors at solving math problems and writing code. GPT-5.5 is rolling out a week after rival Anthropic PBC released its latest LLM. OpenAI is offering the model in two flavors: a standard version and a more capable, significantly pricier edition ...