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Databricks: New Funding Round Catapults Valuation to $188 Billion, No IPO in Sight
2+ day, 17+ hour ago (479+ words) trendingtopics.eu US data and AI company Databricks is raising fresh capital once again – and its valuation is soaring. The San Francisco-based firm announced that it has signed a term sheet for a strategic funding round at a valuation of…...
Kimi K3: China's Newest Open-Weight Model Aims to Close Gap With US Leaders
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (277+ words) Pricing is aggressive in any case: $0.30 per million input tokens (cache hit), $3.00 (cache miss), and $15.00 per million output tokens, with a maximum context window of 1.048 million tokens. Users of the Kimi.com web app can already use Kimi K3 in two…...
Kimi K3 Is the China Shocker That Lifts Open-Weight Models to Frontier Level
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (594+ words) trendingtopics.eu The next China shocker has arrived: Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, its most capable AI model to date – setting a new bar for open-weight models. With 2.8 trillion parameters, Kimi K3 is the first open model in the 3-trillion class,…...
From Bitcoin Mining to AI Data Centers: Does the Big Pivot Actually Pay Off?
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (338+ words) Structural problems compound the squeeze: the April 2024 halving cut the block reward to 3.125 BTC, and the next halving arrives in 2028. Transaction fees, once around seven percent of miner revenue, have shrunk to roughly one percent – partly because institutional products like…...
"Stop the AI Race": Hundreds March Against OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind in San Francisco
5+ day, 20+ hour ago (697+ words) trendingtopics.eu On Saturday, July 11, around 400 people took to the streets of San Francisco to protest against the leading AI companies. The march, held under the banner “Stop the AI Race”, led from OpenAI’s headquarters on 3rd Street past Anthropic’s offices…...
Who's Distilling From Whom? The AI Industry is Fighting Over Copying
5+ day, 21+ hour ago (818+ words) Who’s Distilling From Whom? The AI Industry is Fighting Over Copying trendingtopics.eu Anthropic accuses Chinese labs of “distillation attacks,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella takes shots at the frontier labs, and Apple is quite officially distilling from Google. The dispute…...
Open-Weight Models from China Are Capturing a Growing Share of AI Usage
5+ day, 20+ hour ago (741+ words) trendingtopics.eu Two of the most important data sources on real-world AI usage in production are currently painting the same picture: open AI models, whose weights are freely available, are taking a rapidly growing share of tokens processed worldwide — and…...
"You Pay for Intelligence Twice": Microsoft CEO Warns of Closed Models
5+ day, 21+ hour ago (431+ words) In a lengthy blog post, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has introduced a new term into the AI debate: the “Reverse Information Paradox.” His thesis: companies that use AI models are gradually giving away their most valuable asset — their proprietary knowledge....
OpenAI Plays Catch-Up: ChatGPT Work Borrows Anthropic's Cowork Blueprint
1+ week, 3+ day ago (381+ words) Plugins as the link to your own tools. Plugins connect ChatGPT to systems like Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Drive, SharePoint, email, calendars, CRMs, and project trackers. The agent recognizes on its own when to use a plugin; alternatively, you can…...
Meta Opens Muse Spark 1.1 to Developers — and Bets on Aggressive Pricing
1+ week, 3+ day ago (430+ words) Meta updated its large language model Muse Spark on Thursday and is making it available to outside developers for the first time. The new Muse Spark 1.1 is available now as a public API preview for US developers through the new…...