NVIDIA's new Blackwell platform delivers up to 10x cost reductions for AI inference, with companies like Sully.ai slashing costs by 90% and major providers reporting dramatic savings across healthcare, gaming, and customer service applications.
PicoClaw AI assistant launches with revolutionary efficiency, running on just 10MB RAM and booting in under one second on $10 hardware, delivering 400x faster startup times than competitors while managing emails, calendars, and flights through Telegram and Discord integration.
Newo secures $25 million Series A funding led by Veeam founder to expand its AI voice infrastructure serving over 15,000 AI receptionists across small businesses, with the platform handling calls, SMS, and web chat using specialized Zero-Hallucination Architecture for subsecond response times.
AI companies are revolutionizing their pricing strategies by abandoning traditional seat-based subscription models in favor of outcome-based billing that charges customers only for measurable results like resolved tickets or completed workflows, with hybrid models combining base subscriptions and usage tiers emerging as the preferred approach.
Anthropic revamps Claude's homepage to prominently advertise 'ad-free chats' as a key feature, directly challenging OpenAI's ChatGPT after it introduced advertisements, continuing their public campaign that began with a Super Bowl commercial mocking their competitor's ad strategy.
OpenAI launches Frontier enterprise platform enabling businesses to deploy AI agents across existing systems, with major partners HP, Oracle, and Uber already integrating AI coworkers as the company battles ServiceNow, Salesforce, and IBM for enterprise dominance.
Mistral AI unveils Voxtral Transcribe 2, a breakthrough speech-to-text system delivering lightning-fast 480ms latency across 13 languages with on-device privacy capabilities, outperforming OpenAI and Gemini while offering open-source accessibility for enterprise applications in healthcare, finance, and customer service.
Salesforce launches groundbreaking integration with Anthropic's Claude AI, allowing users to seamlessly search Slack messages, generate drafts, and query customer data directly through the AI assistant while maintaining enterprise security controls across business applications.
AI voice company ElevenLabs raises $500 million in Series D funding led by Sequoia Capital, reaching an $11 billion valuation that triples its worth from just one year ago, as the company reports over $330 million in annual recurring revenue from major enterprise clients including Deutsche Telekom and Square.
OpenAI retires four AI models including GPT-4o on February 13 with two weeks notice, as only 0.1% of users still use GPT-4o daily while most have migrated to the improved GPT-5.2 featuring enhanced personality, customization, and creative capabilities.