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NVIDIA AI Blog ↗
Researchers worldwide rely on open-source technologies as the foundation of their work. To equip the community with the latest advancements in digital and physical AI, NVIDIA is further expanding its collection of open AI models, datasets and tools — with potential applications in virtually every research field. At NeurIPS, one of the world's top AI conferences, NVIDIA announced major open-source AI developments.
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Bloomberg Technology ↗
China's DeepSeek unveiled two new versions of an experimental artificial-intelligence model it released weeks ago, adding fresh capabilities the startup said would help with combining reasoning and executing certain actions autonomously.
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Financial Times Tech ↗
Germany-based Black Forest Labs, which develops the open-source Flux image generation models, raised a $300M Series B at a $3.25B valuation, up from $1B in 2024. The low-profile group has quickly emerged as a top developer of image generation technology.
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The Verge ↗
Runway claims its latest text-to-video model generates even more accurate visuals than its last. In a blog post on Monday, Runway says its Gen-4.5 model can produce "cinematic and highly realistic outputs," potentially making it even more difficult to distinguish between what's real and what's AI. "Gen-4.5 achieves unprecedented physical accuracy and visual precision," Runway's […]
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MIT Tech Review ↗
A US telecom company trained an AI model on years of inmates' phone and video calls and is now piloting that model to scan their calls, texts, and emails in the hope of predicting and preventing crimes. Securus Technologies president Kevin Elder told MIT Technology Review that the company began building its AI tools in response to requests from correctional facilities.
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CNBC Technology ↗
OpenAI will embed engineering, research and product teams within Thrive Holding's companies.
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Bloomberg Technology ↗
Nvidia Corp. invested $2 billion in chip-design software maker Synopsys Inc. as part of a broader engineering and design tie-up, aiming to infuse its AI-computing technology into more industries.
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TechCrunch AI ↗
It's no hyperbole to suggest that ChatGPT subsequently transformed the worlds of business and tech.
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Next Big Future AI ↗
Ark Invest thinks Google has taken the lead with Gemini 3 + Nano Banana Pro. Brett Winton thinks we are heading from transformer architecture to a mix of transformer, diffusion and memory. In the medium term (1-2 years) Google's distribution, bundling, and cost advantages are seen as the biggest structural moat. They predict that when ...Read more
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Bloomberg Technology ↗
Power demand from US data centers is set to surge to 106 gigawatts by 2035, according to BloombergNEF, a 36% increase from the research provider's previous outlook in April.