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Microsoft reportedly develops LLM series that can rival OpenAI, Anthropic models
Microsoft Corp. has developed a series of large language models that can rival algorithms from OpenAI and Anthropic PBC, multiple publications reported today. Sources told Bloomberg that the LLM series is known as MAI. That’s presumably an acronym for “Microsoft artificial intelligence.” It might also be a reference to Maia 100, an internally developed AI ...
Superintelligence startup Reflection AI launches with $130M in funding
Reflection AI Inc., a new startup led by former Google DeepMind researchers, launched today with $130 million in early-stage funding. The company raised the capital over two rounds. The first, a $25 million seed investment, was led by Sequoia Capital and CRV. The latter firm also co-led the subsequent $105 million Series A raise with ...
Report: US could ban DeepSeek’s app on government devices
The White House is reportedly weighing a new rule that would prohibit the installation of DeepSeek’s app on government devices. The Wall Street Journal today cited sources as saying that the regulation is “likely” to be implemented. According to the report, the move is motivated by concerns about how DeepSeek processes users’ data. The Chinese ...
Defense technology startup Shield AI valued at $5.3B in $240M funding round
Defense technology startup Shield AI Inc. today announced that it has raised $240 million in funding at a $5.3 billion valuation. The Series F-1 round included the participation of Andreessen Horowitz, U.S. Innovative Technology and Washington Harbour. They were joined by new investors L3Harris Technologies Inc. and Hanwha Aerospace Co., two publicly-traded defense contractors. The ...
AI training data provider Turing closes $111M investment
Turing Enterprises Inc., a provider of training data for artificial intelligence models, today announced that it has closed a late-stage $111 million funding round. Khazanah Nasional Berhad, Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund, led the Series E raise with participation from more than a half-dozen other backers. Turing is now valued at $2.2 billion. Palo Alto, California-based ...
Alibaba shares jump on new open-source QwQ-32B reasoning model
Shares of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. rose more than 8% today following the company’s release of a reasoning model with performance comparable to DeepSeek-R1. The new model, QwQ-32B, was open-sourced on Wednesday. R1 comprises multiple neural networks that together have 671 billion parameters. When the model receives a query, it uses just one of the ...
Google rolls out Gemini 2.0, AI Mode to its search engine
Google LLC today introduced two new artificial intelligence features for its search engine that promise to help users find information more quickly. The first addition is an enhanced version of AI Overviews. Introduced last May, AI Overviews is a feature that displays a natural language response to the user’s query above standard search results. Google ...
Trump calls on lawmakers to scrap CHIPS Act in congressional address
U.S. President Donald Trump called on lawmakers to repeal the CHIPS Act in a Tuesday evening speech to Congress. “Your CHIPS Act is a horrible, horrible thing,” Trump said. “We give hundreds of billions of dollars and it doesn’t mean a thing. They take our money and they don’t spend it.” Trump went on to ...
Quantexa reels in $175M for its data management platform
Quantexa Ltd., a startup with a data management platform that enterprises use for tasks such as fraud detection, has raised $175 million in a late-stage funding. The company disclosed in its announcement of the round Tuesday that Teachers’ Venture Growth was the lead investor. The Series F deal also includes contributions from several returning backers. Quantexa ...
CrowdStrike shares slide after strong earnings, slight guidance miss
CrowdStrike Holdings Inc. shares declined in after-hours trading after the company posted strong fourth-quarter results but missed expectations with its guidance. Nasdaq-listed CrowdStrike is one of the world’s largest cybersecurity providers. Its flagship Falcon platform can block malware across cloud environments, on-premises hardware and employee devices. The software is used by more than 20,000 organizations. ...