Mira Murati, ex-CTO of OpenAI, aims to raise an unprecedented $2 billion seed round for her ambitious AI startup Thinking Machines Lab, focused on customizable, multimodal, and safe AI systems amidst soaring AI funding.
Safe Superintelligence, founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, secures $2 billion funding at a $32 billion valuation despite having no public product, with major investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Alphabet, and Nvidia backing the 20-employee startup developing AI models on Google's TPUs.
Orbital Materials, founded by an ex-DeepMind researcher, pilots an AI-designed purple powder that captures carbon more efficiently at data center temperatures, potentially reducing costs to $200/ton and enabling companies to offset emissions from energy-intensive data centers.
Multiverse Computing's CompactifAI technology shrinks Llama AI models by 80%, boosting efficiency with 60% fewer parameters, 84% greater energy efficiency, 40% faster inference, and 50% cost reduction, enabling new use cases for portable AI.
Ex-Google AI Chief Ilya Sutskever's startup Safe Superintelligence (SSI), backed by $1 billion, is tapping Google Cloud's powerful TPU chips in its quest to develop safe, superintelligent AI systems, marking another AI computing deal between Google and a former employee's startup.
Google's Ironwood AI processor, designed for its Gemini AI models and simulated reasoning, unleashes an astounding 42.5 Exaflops of computing power through clusters of up to 9,216 liquid-cooled chips with enhanced interconnect, surpassing previous Google TPUs in speed and efficiency.
IBM has launched the z17 mainframe, engineered specifically for AI and generative AI workloads, featuring high-capacity Telum II processors, compatibility with IBM's Spyre accelerator chips, and new performance management and operating system tools.
AI agents' energy usage varies based on model size, modality, and output length, necessitating a balance between performance and sustainability through efficient model selection, open-source frameworks, and task-appropriate approaches.
Meta unveils Llama 4 Behemoth, one of the most powerful multimodal AI language models, as part of its Llama 4 release, reinforcing its massive investment in AI with plans to spend up to $65 billion by 2025.
Google-backed AI drug discovery startup Isomorphic Labs secured a staggering $600 million in funding led by Thrive Capital, fueling its AI engine's development and advancing partnerships with pharmaceutical giants like Eli Lilly and Novartis worth billions to revolutionize drug design.