SoftBank Group plans to invest up to $40 billion in OpenAI, with $10 billion upfront and up to $30 billion more by 2026, to support OpenAI's quest for Artificial General Intelligence and ultimately Artificial Super Intelligence for the advancement of humanity.
Alphabet's AI drug discovery subsidiary Isomorphic Labs secures $600 million funding from Thrive Capital to accelerate development of its AI-powered drug design platform and advance its drug candidates into clinical trials, leveraging technology like DeepMind's AlphaFold.
Amazon is unleashing its AI powerhouse, Amazon Nova, by launching nova.amazon.com, granting access to its advanced generative models for text, images, and videos, alongside the Amazon Nova Act SDK for developers to build AI agents within web browsers.
OpenAI, the AI research company behind ChatGPT, has secured a staggering $40 billion in funding led by SoftBank, valuing the company at an unprecedented $300 billion, enabling it to accelerate AI research, expand compute infrastructure, and bolster its Stargate joint venture with Microsoft.
In a blockbuster $113 billion deal, Elon Musk's AI firm xAI has acquired the social media giant X (formerly Twitter), valuing xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion, with Musk claiming the merger will 'unlock immense potential' by fusing AI with X's global reach.
Transformer models, neural network architectures employing self-attention mechanisms, have revolutionized natural language processing tasks, achieving remarkable performance in machine translation, question answering, and text generation through models like BERT, GPT, and ChatGPT.
Amazon is pushing into generative AI with new conversational shopping and health assistants, including 'Interests AI' for product recommendations and a chatbot offering medical advice and wellness guidance.
Alarming surge of 140% in AI-powered cyberattacks exploiting browser vulnerabilities, with 130% rise in zero-hour phishing, necessitating robust browser security solutions to fortify cloud browsing and zero trust access against evolving AI-driven threats bypassing traditional defenses.
OpenAI's groundbreaking o3 model, combining deep learning and program search, shattered records with a remarkable 75.7% score on the ARC-AGI benchmark, showcasing unprecedented task adaptation capabilities, yet falling short of true AGI as tougher challenges loom.
Browser Use, a tool that converts website elements into an AI-friendly format, has secured $17 million in seed funding to become a crucial layer enabling AI agents to interact with websites seamlessly, backed by Felicis Ventures, Paul Graham, A Capital, and Nexus Venture Partners.