AI startup Ankar raises $20 million to revolutionize patent approval processes, using language models to slash approval times from 24 months while increasing productivity by 40% for clients like L'Oréal.
Sam Altman's AGI masterclass goes viral as industry experts debate potential AI bubble concerns, while new VoiceAgentBench research exposes significant gaps in current voice assistants' ability to handle complex tasks, even as breakthrough Voila voice-language models promise emotionally expressive real-time AI agents.
Allen Institute for AI launches Bolmo, revolutionary language models that process raw UTF-8 bytes directly without tokenizers, offering superior multilingual capabilities and handling of text errors through innovative 'bytefying' technology that transforms existing models cost-effectively.
NVIDIA acquires SchedMD, creator of Slurm software that manages workloads for over half of the world's top supercomputers, promising to keep the critical AI and high-performance computing infrastructure open-source while accelerating development for next-generation artificial intelligence systems.
Taiwan opens its largest AI supercomputing data center in Tainan equipped with Nvidia's cutting-edge Blackwell chips, marking a bold push for technological independence with plans to expand capacity sixfold by 2028 through a partnership with Japan's NTT.
TIME crowns AI Architects as 2025 Person of the Year as Jensen Huang's Nvidia reaches $5 trillion valuation, Trump launches $500 billion Stargate initiative, and Chinese breakthrough DeepSeek intensifies global AI race while ChatGPT hits 800 million weekly users amid growing concerns over mental health and job displacement.
Meta contemplates abandoning its open-source AI strategy with the closed-source 'Avocado' model while CEO Mark Zuckerberg restructures operations amid major executive departures including chief AI scientist Yann LeCun and internal conflicts over competing with OpenAI versus improving social media platforms.
Microsoft releases GigaTIME, an AI tool that generates detailed immune system data from cancer pathology slides in minutes rather than days, potentially revolutionizing precision cancer medicine by eliminating expensive testing that costs thousands of dollars per sample.
Meta secretly develops 'Avocado' AI model to replace Llama while spending $14.3 billion to hire Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang as chief AI officer, abandoning open-source strategy after Llama 4's failure and implementing grueling 70-hour workweeks to compete with OpenAI and Google by 2026.
Block, Anthropic, and OpenAI launch the Agentic AI Foundation under Linux Foundation to advance open source AI agent development, establishing unified standards for autonomous AI systems that can act independently with minimal human oversight.