Microsoft launches new in-house AI models it says cut costs up to 89% versus OpenAI
Microsoft AI released two new in-house models into public preview on Wednesday — MAI-Image-2.5-Pro, its highest-fidelity image generator to date, and MAI-Voice-2-Flash, a speech model built for high [...]
AI vendors are switching from subscriptions to consumption pricing. AI PCs are the hedge.
The AI pricing model is shifting. Major software vendors are moving away from per-seat subscriptions toward token consumption or outcome-based pricing for AI features. The flat-rate subscriptions that [...]
Act Security Emerges From Stealth With $60M to Reduce Cloud Access Risk
Act Security has emerged from stealth with $60 million in funding and a cloud security platform designed to reduce the access paths that allow attackers to move through enterprise infrastructure. Foun [...]
Nscale owns the power and the data centres. For ~$1.65bn, it just bought the software too.
Nscale, the London AI-cloud company that owns its own power and data centres, is buying its way up the stack. It has agreed to acquire Anyscale, the startup behind the widely used Ray software. Bloomb [...]
Oracle put its cloud rival’s AI inside its business apps, and the stock jumped 8%
Oracle has just put its cloud rival’s AI at the heart of the software its customers run their businesses on. Investors cheered. The company said on Thursday it is expanding its Google Cloud partners [...]
