Anthropic Launches the World’s First ‘Hybrid Reasoning’ AI Model

Anthropic Launches Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Its Most Advanced Model Ever

The new model gives business owners more control over their AI budget.

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Anthropic says it's released its 'most intelligent' AI model yet as competition ramps up

Anthropic unveiled its latest frontier model, Claude Sonnet 3.7, on Monday and claims it's the company's "most intelligent" version yet.

CNBC - 3d

DeepSeek Rushes to Launch new AI Model as China Goes All in

The new model from DeepSeek will be called R2, and could worry the U.S. government. Here’s why.

Inc. - 2d

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 - 6d

Hume launches new text-to-speech model Octave that generates custom AI voices with adjustable emotions

Hume emphasized its Octave TTS pricing is around half the cost of the competing offering from AI voice creation startup ElevenLabs.

VentureBeat - 1d

Carmakers turn to new hybrid and petrol models to bolster profits

Investments continue in combustion and hybrid engine vehicles amid lengthy wait for EVs to become mainstream

Financial Times - 4d

Adobe launches first Photoshop mobile app and it has amazing Firefly AI-powered object detection, editing, and effects

Photoshop mobile includes Firefly-powered gen AI features like Generative Fill and Generative Expand and has mobile-adjusted touch targets.

VentureBeat - 2d

Anthropic’s Newest AI Wants to Be a Pokémon Master. Here’s Why That’s a Big Deal

For Anthropic, having their AI play Pokémon is more than just a game—it shows how their system is improving.

Inc. - 1h

Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet takes aim at OpenAI and DeepSeek in AI’s next big battle

Anthropic launches Claude 3.7 Sonnet AI with groundbreaking 'thinking time' controls, challenging OpenAI and DeepSeek while reshaping enterprise AI with unified reasoning capabilities and new ...

VentureBeat - 3d

How test-time scaling unlocks hidden reasoning abilities in small language models (and allows them to outperform LLMs)

A 1B small language model can beat a 405B large language model in reasoning tasks if provided with the right test-time scaling strategy.

VentureBeat - 6d

HTC launches Viverse Worlds for sharing web-based 3D content

HTC has launched Viverse Worlds, a destination for sharing 3D content that is accessible from just a web link.

VentureBeat - 1d

Ukraine is launching a new drone supply model to slash delivery times to troops

Yahoo News - 6d

Mira Murati Launches Thinking Machines Lab to Make AI More Accessible

After leaving OpenAI last year, Mira Murati is finally ready to share what she's working on.

Wired - Feb. 18

This Founder Left OpenAI to Launch a Competitor. It Aims to Bring AI to the Masses

Mira Murati, OpenAI’s former CTO, has taken the wraps off her new company, Thinking Machines Lab. Here’s what to know about its goals.

Inc. - Feb. 19

Nvidia helps launch AI platform for teaching American Sign Language

Nvidia has unveiled a new AI platform for teaching people how to use American Sign Language to help bridge communication gaps. The Signs platform is creating a validated dataset for sign language ...

VentureBeat - Feb. 20

Segwise launches Creative Analytics AI Agent on its user acquisition platform

Segwise announced the launch of its new AI agent, which helps track the performance of ads for mobile games and apps.

VentureBeat - 3d

Intel launches Xeon 6 processors with performance cores for 2X AI processing

Intel is launching its new Intel Xeon 6 processors with performance-cores, offering better performance across data center workloads and up to two times higher performance in AI processing. The ...

VentureBeat - 3d

Prompt AI’s Seemour launches visual intelligence platform for the home

Prompt AI, a smart home and visual intelligence research and technology company, has launched Seemour, a visual intelligence platform.

VentureBeat - 2d

A relocated Slamdance Film Festival launches its first edition in Los Angeles

Originally created by filmmakers rejected by Sundance, Slamdance has become a community of its own and is about to kick off its first local edition at several L.A. venues.

Los Angeles Times - Feb. 20

Former Jupiter star Ben Whitmore launches first fund at new venture

Brickwood’s UK Value Fund will focus on underpriced UK companies

Financial Times - 3d

Sussex to launch UK’s first climate justice undergraduate degree

University announces new BA, after survey found most 14- to 18-year-olds want more rigorous climate change education. The University of Sussex will introduce what it says is the UK’s first ...

The Guardian - 22h

Needle drop! The world’s first sewing machine orchestra takes Munich

This weekend, a symphony of Singers (not that kind) will lead an experimental performance that stitches together feminism and fashion – and offers the audience free repairs. Stepping into the ...

The Guardian - 5d

Breaking down Grok 3: The AI model that could redefine the industry

Grok-3 still hasn't fully shipped yet. But it will surely set the tone for how other AI labs release future models.

VentureBeat - Feb. 20

Alibaba makes AI video generation model free to use globally

Open-source AI tech has been thrown into the spotlight since Chinese firm DeepSeek rattled global markets in January.

CNBC - 1d

OpenAI reveals GPT-4.5 amid flurry of new AI model releases

The San Francisco-based company said its latest product has fewer so-called ‘hallucinations’

Financial Times - 2h

OpenAI launching GPT-4.5, its next general-purpose large language model

Last month CNBC reported that OpenAI was in discussions on a $40 billion funding round at a $340 billion valuation.

CNBC - 1h

Voyage AI Just Sold for $220 Million—After Launching Less Than Two Years Ago

Here’s why acquirer MongoDB found the anti-hallucination tech particularly valuable.

Inc. - 3d

A Team of Female Founders Is Launching Cloud Security Tech That Could Overhaul AI Protection

Cloud “container” defenses have inconsistencies that can give attackers too much access. A new company, Edera, is taking on that challenge and the problem of the male-dominated startup world.

Wired - 2d

Perplexity AI launching $50 million venture fund to back early-stage startups

Perplexity AI is getting ready to launch a $50 million fund focused on pre-seed and seed artificial intelligence startups in the U.S., CNBC has learned.

CNBC - 2d

Hugging Face launches FastRTC to simplify real-time AI voice and video apps

Hugging Face's new FastRTC library enables Python developers to build real-time voice and video AI applications in just a few lines of code.

VentureBeat - 1d

State Street, Apollo team up to launch first of its kind private credit ETF

Wall Street is eager to provide access to private equity and credit to the masses, and ETFs are the obvious wrapper.

CNBC - 29m

'Queen Sugar' actor Kofi Siriboe dives into the art world with his first L.A. exhibition

The art exhibition on display from Feb. 21-23 at the Line Hotel in Koreatown explores themes of Black migration and movement via various art forms.

Los Angeles Times - 6d

They told her women shouldn’t box. Now she’s Ghana’s first female world champion

When Abigail Kwartekaa Quartey decided as a teenager to become a professional boxer, her family begged her to stop training

ABC News - 3d

Birth rate in South Korea, the world's lowest, rises for first time in 9 years

South Korea’s fertility rate rose in 2024 for the first time in nine years, preliminary data showed Wednesday, in a sign that the country’s demographic crisis might have turned a corner.

NBC News - 1d

As Israel uses US-made AI models in war, concerns arise about tech’s role in who lives and who dies

U.S. tech giants have quietly empowered Israel to track and kill many more alleged militants more quickly in Gaza and Lebanon through a sharp spike in artificial intelligence and computing services

ABC News - Feb. 18

Xbox Pushes Ahead With Muse, a New Generative AI Model. Devs Say ‘Nobody Will Want This’

One developer responds to the release of Muse: “We are implicitly empowering a class of people who own these tools and don’t give a fuck about how they reshape our lives.”

Wired - Feb. 19