London-based AI software startup Callosum has closed a $10.25 million funding round led by European early-stage venture fund Plural, marking a notable bet on multi-chip AI infrastructure at a time when venture capital remains heavily concentrated in a narrow set of compute platform plays. The round includes participation from angel backers such as Charlie Songhurst, […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
The standard guidelines for building large language models (LLMs) optimize only for training costs and ignore inference costs. This poses a challenge for real-world applications that use inference-tim [...]
Alembic Technologies has raised $145 million in Series B and growth funding at a valuation 13 times higher than its previous round, betting that the next competitive advantage in artificial intelligen [...]
Anthropic on Tuesday announced Project Glasswing, a sweeping cybersecurity initiative that pairs an unreleased frontier AI model — Claude Mythos Preview — with a coalition of twelve major technolo [...]
Microsoft on Wednesday launched three new foundational AI models it built entirely in-house — a state-of-the-art speech transcription system, a voice generation engine, and an upgraded image creator [...]
Mistral AI on Monday launched Forge, an enterprise model training platform that allows organizations to build, customize, and continuously improve AI models using their own proprietary data — a move [...]
The whale has resurfaced. DeepSeek, the Chinese AI startup offshoot of High-Flyer Capital Management quantitative analysis firm, became a near-overnight sensation globally in January 2025 with the rel [...]
Microsoft on Tuesday released Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, a compact open-weight multimodal AI model that the company says matches or exceeds the performance of systems many times its size — while co [...]
While the world's leading artificial intelligence companies race to build ever-larger models, betting billions that scale alone will unlock artificial general intelligence, a researcher at one of [...]