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NSF and Nvidia partner develop fully open AI models to lead US science innovation
The U.S. National Science Foundation today announced a new partnership with Nvidia Corp. to develop artificial intelligence models designed to advance scientific research across the country. The collaboration will support the NSF Mid-Scale Research project known as Open Multimodal Infrastructure to Accelerate Science, or OMAI. The project will be led by the Allen Institute for ...
Refold AI raises $6.5M to simplify enterprise software integrations and APIs
Refold AI, an enterprise startup that provides artificial intelligence to automate application programming interface integrations, today announced it has launched with $6.5 million in seed funding. Eniac Ventures and Tidal Ventures co-led the company’s funding round. Better Capital, Ahead VC, Karman Ventures and Z21 also participated in the investment alongside several unnamed angels. Founded in 2023 ...
Perplexity AI makes audacious $34.5B all-cash bid for Google’s Chrome browser
Generative artificial intelligence search startup Perplexity AI Inc. today offered a bid to purchase Google LLC’s Chrome browser for $34.5 billion in an unsolicited all-cash offer. The Wall Street Journal reported that although Perplexity’s offer exceeds the company’s valuation, estimated at $18 billion after its latest funding round, the company said several investors, including “large ...
SiMa.ai launches its next-gen system-on-chip for physical AI into production
Artificial intelligence chip startup SiMa Technologies Inc. today announced it’s shipping its second-gen system-on-chip platform specifically designed for multimodal physical AI workloads. The new chip, named MLSoC Modalix, is intended to be embedded in robots, industrial equipment, vehicles and more. It’s designed for a system-on-module that matches the pin configuration and form factor of leading ...
Ai2 releases an open AI model that allows robots to ‘plan’ movements in 3D space
Seattle-based artificial intelligence research institute Ai2, the Allen Institute for AI, today announced the release of MolmoAct 7B, a breakthrough open embodied AI model that brings intelligence to robotics by allowing them to “think” through actions before performing. Spatial reasoning isn’t new for AI models, which are capable of reasoning about the world by visualizing ...
Nvidia debuts next-gen agentic AI and reasoning robotic models at SIGGRAPH 2025
Nvidia Corp. announced today that it’s expanding its offerings of smarter AI models, physical intelligence for robotics and powerful enterprise AI servers. Leading the news at the ACM SIGGRAPH 2025 computer graphics conference in Vancouver, Nvidia unveiled that the Nvidia RTX Pro 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPU, a graphics processing unit designed for servers, is now ...
OpenAI unveils GPT-5, a new flagship AI model with high accuracy and coding power
In a highly anticipated announcement today, OpenAI released GPT-5, the company’s most recent state-of-the-art artificial intelligence model that outperforms previous models on intelligence benchmarks and answers questions with high accuracy. “GPT-5 is a major upgrade over GPT-4o and a significant step along our path to AGI,” said co-founder and Chief Executive Sam Altman. “GPT-3 was ...
Chai Discovery raises $70M to build molecular discovery foundation AI models
Chai Discovery, a company that builds frontier artificial intelligence models to predict and reprogram interactions between biochemical molecules, today announced it has raised $70 million to continue its mission to accelerate how scientists create therapeutic medicines. Menlo Ventures led the company’s Series A round, which brings the total funding raised by Chai to $100 million. ...
Anthropic automates software security reviews with Claude Code
Generative artificial intelligence startup Anthropic PBC today introduced the ability for Claude Code to automate software security reviews, identifying and fixing potential vulnerabilities and weaknesses in code. As code becomes more complex and software engineers embrace “vibe coding,” which uses AI as part of the development process, the number of security issues in code has ...
Microsoft unveils Project Ire, an autonomous AI agent that identifies malware at scale
Microsoft Corp. introduced a new artificial intelligence agent on Tuesday that can analyze and classify malware in the wild at scale, without human intervention. The newly minted AI model, named Project Ire, can reverse engineer suspect software files and use forensic tools such as decompilers and binary analysis to deconstruct the code in order to ...