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Buzzy AI startup Multiverse creates two of the smallest high-performing models ever

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One of Europe’s most prominent AI startups has released two AI models that are so tiny, they have named them after a chicken’s brain and a fly’s brain. Multiverse Computing claims these are the world’s smallest models that are still high performing and can handle chat, speech, and even reasoning in one case.  These new […]

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Cohere hires long-time Meta research head Joelle Pineau as its chief AI officer

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Investors once saw Canadian AI startup Cohere as a promising contender to challenge OpenAI and Anthropic in the race to build frontier AI models, with its backers pouring roughly $1 billion on their bet on CEO Aidan Gomez, who co-authored a seminal paper on LLMs when he was a 20-year-old Google intern. But Cohere’s AI

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Anthropic nabs Humanloop team as competition for enterprise AI talent heats up

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Anthropic has acquired the co-founders and most of the team behind Humanloop – a platform for prompt management, LLM evaluation, and observability – in a push to strengthen its enterprise strategy. The terms of the deal were not shared, but it appears to follow the acqui-hire playbook we’re increasingly seeing in the tech industry amid

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Sam Altman, OpenAI will reportedly back a startup that takes on Musk’s Neuralink

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Sam Altman is in the process of co-founding a new brain-to-computer interface startup called Merge Labs, and raising funds for it with the capital possibly coming largely from OpenAI’s ventures team, unnamed sources told the Financial Times.  The startup is expected to be valued at $850 million. A source familiar with the deal tells TechCrunch

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Uber Freight CEO Lior Ron leaves to join self-driving startup Waabi as COO

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Self-driving truck maker Waabi has hired autonomous vehicle industry veteran and Uber Freight CEO, Lior Ron, to step in as chief operating officer, as the startup looks to scale its commercial operations ahead of its planned launch of driverless trucks on public highways later this year. Rebecca Tinucci, who previously spent six years building Tesla’s

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