Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI raises $2 billion in a new funding round, catapulting its valuation past $20 billion as its Kimi chatbot drives over $200 million in annual recurring revenue, signaling explosive growth in China's competitive AI race against global giants like OpenAI and Anthropic.
A GitHub repository called 'awesome-ai-apps' is exploding in popularity, amassing 11.9K stars by offering developers 80+ real-world AI application examples spanning RAG systems, voice agents, and multi-agent workflows across major frameworks like LangChain, CrewAI, and AutoGen.
Google expands its Gemini API with powerful new features for RAG systems, including multimodal search for images and text, custom metadata filtering for faster and more accurate queries, and page-level citations that link AI responses directly to their source documents.
IBM, Cleveland Clinic, and Riken achieve a quantum computing breakthrough by simulating a 12,635-atom protein complex — a massive leap from just 10 atoms in October 2024 — unlocking powerful new possibilities for drug discovery and disease treatment.
OpenAI and major tech giants including Microsoft, Nvidia, AMD, and Intel unveil MRC, a groundbreaking open networking protocol using 'packet spraying' to dramatically boost AI GPU cluster speed, reliability, and energy efficiency — already live in major supercomputing sites — as the industry races to combat a looming compute shortage.
Facebook Research unveils Tuna-2, a groundbreaking multimodal AI model that ditches traditional vision encoders in favor of direct pixel patch processing, outperforming predecessors on diverse benchmarks while supporting both image understanding and generation tasks in 7B and 2B parameter sizes.
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue warns that anti-open-source lobbying in the US risks handing AI dominance to a handful of corporations, as the global developer base is projected to surge from millions to 100 million builders and AI agents may soon outnumber human users on the platform.
Anthropic is racing to close a massive $50 billion funding round within two weeks at a valuation exceeding $900 billion, surpassing OpenAI's $852 billion valuation, as the AI powerhouse reports over $30 billion in annual revenue and prepares for a highly anticipated IPO.
Anthropic is eyeing a staggering $900 billion valuation in a new funding round, potentially overtaking OpenAI as the world's most valuable AI startup, while also revealing a powerful but dangerous new AI model called Mythos capable of exploiting software vulnerabilities — deemed too risky for public release after unauthorized users …
Chip Huyen's GitHub repository 'aie-book,' supporting her 2025 O'Reilly book 'AI Engineering,' surpasses 15,400 stars and 2,200 forks, offering developers a comprehensive hub covering prompt engineering, RAG, agent building, finetuning, and hallucination mitigation for foundation model development.