AI startup Baseten raises $75 million following DeepSeek's emergence

• OpenAI tops 400 million users despite DeepSeek's emergence

  OpenAI now has 400 million weekly active users, up from 300 million in early December, OpenAI’s chief operating officer, Brad Lightcap, tells CNBC.
  
  CNBC - 18h
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  OpenInfer raises $8M for AI inference at the edge

  OpenInfer has raised $8 million in funding to redefine AI inference for edge applications. It’s the brain child of Behnam Bastani and Reza Nourai, who spent nearly a decade of building and scaling ...
  
  VentureBeat - 17h
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  Crunchbase’s AI can predict startup success with 95% accuracy—will it change investing?

  Crunchbase pivots to AI-powered predictions engine with 95% accuracy for startup funding rounds, abandoning historical data in favor of predictive intelligence that forecasts acquisitions and ...
  
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  Robot Startup Figure Reveals an AI Breakthrough Called Helix

  The company also released a video showing two humanoid robots putting away groceries. It’s worth watching.
  
  Inc. - 12h

• Beijing embraces DeepSeek to lead AI adoption as it looks for new growth drivers

  DeepSeek's rise came as a timely confidence boost as the Chinese leadership faces a prolonged economic gloom and a brewing trade war with U.S.
  
  CNBC - 37m
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  Together AI’s $305M bet: Reasoning models like DeepSeek-R1 are increasing, not decreasing, GPU demand

  The demands of DeepSeek's advanced reasoning capabilities are pushing enterprises toward Together AI's optimized infrastructure platform.
  
  VentureBeat - 8h
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  HP to Buy Humane, Maker of the Ai Pin, for $116 Million

  Humane, which marketed its Ai Pin as the next big thing after smartphones, had raised $240 million from investors, including OpenAI’s Sam Altman. The pin will be discontinued.
  
  The New York Times - 2d
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  Researchers link a gene to the emergence of spoken language

  Why did humans start speaking
  
  ABC News - 2d
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  A Trump DOGE Dividend Could Raise Inflation

  President Trump floated giving taxpayers a piece of any savings that Elon Musk’s cost-cutting generates, which could reignite inflation.
  
  The New York Times - 21h
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  Scientists Describe Rare Syndrome Following Covid Vaccinations

  In a small study, patients with the syndrome were more likely to experience reactivation of Epstein-Barr virus and high levels of a coronavirus protein.
  
  The New York Times - 1d

More from CNBC

• Meta approves plan for bigger executive bonuses following 5% layoffs

  Meta's executive officers could earn a bonus of 200% of their base salary under the company's new executive bonus plan, up from the 75% they earned previously.
  
  CNBC - 7h

• Rivian beats Wall Street's fourth-quarter expectations, but expects lower deliveries in 2025

  Rivian beat Wall Street's fourth-quarter earnings expectations and achieved its first gross quarterly profit but is forecasting lower sales in 2025.
  
  CNBC - 11h

• Amazon surpasses Walmart in revenue for the first time

  Walmart reported $180.5 billion in sales during the most recent quarter while Amazon reeled in $187.8 billion.
  
  CNBC - 14h

• Trump 'doesn't care' what happens to Ukraine, former foreign minister claims as U.S.-Kyiv relations sour

  U.S. President Donald Trump doesn't appear to be concerned about Ukraine's post-war future, the country's former Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told CNBC.
  
  CNBC - 4h

• Block shares fall on profit, revenue miss

  Block, formerly known as Square, got off to a sluggish start on Wall Street this year after underperforming the Nasdaq in 2024.
  
  CNBC - 10h

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• ‘I believe myself to be an honorable person’: Do I have the right to ask my husband if I’ll inherit his house after he dies?

  “He and his first wife have a son who just graduated from university.”
  
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• ‘I feel like I’ve opened a hornet’s nest’: My mother-in-law lists my husband as beneficiary on her $1 million IRA. But her will says otherwise. Who wins?

  “All of this is causing a lot of turmoil in the family. Does her will trump the IRA beneficiary?”
  
  MarketWatch - 10m

• ‘She acted as a mother to me growing up’: My stepmother remarried after my father died. How can I claim my inheritance?

  “Her intention is to bequeath her properties and investments to her current new husband.”
  
  MarketWatch - 13m

• Treasury yields slip ahead of latest batch of economic data

  U.S. Treasury yields edged lower on Friday ahead of the latest round of economic data.
  
  MarketWatch - 19m

• Life with 7 kids: Hilaria and Alec Baldwin open up their $16 million New York home for reality series

  Alec and Hilaria Baldwin are making a new TLC reality series that will reveal an intimate glimpse inside their lives as parents to seven children.
  
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