Meta intensifies the race for artificial general intelligence by poaching two prominent researchers, Jason Wei and Hyung Won Chung, from OpenAI, offering lucrative compensation to bolster its AI capabilities under CEO Mark Zuckerberg's leadership.
NVIDIA introduces Dynamo, an open-source framework optimizing performance and scalability for large language models and generative AI applications on the cloud, featuring innovations like disaggregated prefill and decode phases, dynamic GPU management, efficient caching, and accelerated data transfer, showcasing deployment with DeepSeek-R1-Distill-8b on Amazon EKS.
AI startup Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI executive Mira Murati, secures $2 billion at $12 billion valuation in funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, aiming to build safer, more reliable AI systems for broader applications than rivals.
In a potential industry-shaking move, Meta, the tech giant behind Facebook, weighs developing closed AI models, risking backlash from open source advocates as it seeks to monetize AI beyond advertising and retain top talent with high salaries.
Moonshot AI unveils Kimi K2, a groundbreaking 1 trillion parameter open-source language model that surpasses GPT-4 in coding, autonomous tasks, and math reasoning while being offered for free, potentially disrupting big tech's profit centers with its cost-efficient MuonClip optimizer.
Google acquires AI coding startup Windsurf in a major coup, bolstering its DeepMind team and beating out OpenAI's previous $3 billion offer for the promising generative AI company.
BioEmu, a groundbreaking model, revolutionizes protein structure prediction by sampling from the equilibrium distribution of structures for a protein monomer based on its amino acid sequence, providing inference code, model weights, and availability as a Linux package and on Azure AI Foundry.
In a major shakeup, Windsurf's CEO, co-founder, and top researchers defect to Google DeepMind after OpenAI's $3 billion acquisition falls through, with Google paying $2.4 billion to license Windsurf's technology and hire its key personnel.
Mark Zuckerberg spearheads Meta's pursuit of superintelligence, aggressively recruiting elite AI talent with lucrative offers and constructing massive GPU clusters dubbed 'Tents' to exponentially scale training capabilities.
Elon Musk's AI company xAI launches Grok 4, its latest flagship AI model boasting frontier performance, alongside a $300 monthly SuperGrok Heavy subscription for early premium access.