OpenAI aggressively expands its AI capabilities, aiming for 1 million GPUs by year-end and an astonishing 100 million GPUs worth $3 trillion, fueling concerns about AI supremacy as its Texas data center becomes the world's largest at 1 gigawatt by 2026.
In a groundbreaking move, Netflix incorporates generative AI into its production pipeline, utilizing it to create a building collapse scene for the Argentine show 'El Eternauta' 10 times faster, and plans to introduce interactive AI-powered ads by late 2025.
Microsoft unveils initiatives to enhance multilingual language models across Europe, addressing underrepresentation of European languages in web data used for training, offering grants, cloud resources, and engineering support to improve LLM performance for non-English languages.
Hyper, an AI startup, secures $6.3 million in funding to automate non-emergency 911 calls through an AI voice system, aiming to reduce burden on call centers and prioritize emergencies.
Groundbreaking AI models from OpenAI and Google DeepMind achieve gold medal-level performance at the prestigious International Mathematical Olympiad, solving complex problems and providing natural language proofs, marking a milestone in general-purpose AI for math and reasoning.
Greptile, an AI startup offering code review tools, secures $30M Series A funding at $180M valuation, intensifying rivalry with competitors like Graphite and Coderabbit in the rapidly growing AI code review market.
Nigeria pivots to advanced tech jobs like cybersecurity and AI, targeting 3 million digital workers by 2027 amid industry shifts from tech layoffs, the rise of AI, and U.S. immigration restrictions.
Cursor acquires enterprise startup Koala, bringing on its engineers to build an enterprise-readiness team, strengthening its enterprise offerings and positioning itself as a rival to GitHub Copilot in the enterprise AI coding space.
Blackstone abandons plans to invest in TikTok's US operations as uncertainty mounts over the video-sharing app's future, with ByteDance exploring options like selling or restructuring its US business amid delays in securing a deal.
Amazon's new policy mandates employees seeking promotions in its smart home division to demonstrate innovative AI use for achieving efficiency gains, fostering a culture of speed and 'doing more with less' through AI adoption.