OpenAI researchers Jason Wei and Hyung Won Chung depart for Meta's superintelligence lab, amid an AI talent war where Meta offers up to $300 million over four years to top AI talent.
Ex-Google AI pioneers unveil a software-savvy agent trained to comprehend the software building process, inching closer to superintelligent AI by enabling more capable software assistants.
Meta and AWS join forces to empower 30 US startups building AI applications on Meta's open-source Llama platform, providing $200,000 in AWS cloud credits and technical support as Meta aims to make Llama the leading platform for AI app development.
In a surprising move, Anthropic rehires Boris Cherny and Cat Wu, key leaders behind its coding product Claude Code, just two weeks after they departed for Anysphere, the company behind Cursor.
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.
LTX-Video revolutionizes real-time video generation, offering high-quality output with advanced features like image-to-video conversion, keyframe animation, video extension, transformations, and newly released distilled and control models for enhanced performance.
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.
Hugging Face hosts over 5,000 AI models capable of recreating real faces, raising ethical concerns after their migration from Civitai, a platform used for nonconsensual pornography.
SpaceX injects $2 billion into Elon Musk's xAI, which merges with X at a staggering $113 billion valuation, integrating Grok chatbot and intensifying AI rivalry with OpenAI through massive model training and infrastructure investments.
Meta bolsters its AI capabilities by acquiring Play AI, a startup that generates human-sounding voices using AI, aligning with Meta's roadmap for AI characters, Meta AI, wearables, and audio content creation.