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– Oura vs. Ultrahuman smart ring war rages – Amazon invests $4.4B in New Zealand cloud
– Fisker shuts nonprofit after EV startup fails
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Japan’s Digital Yen, Smart Ring Competition, Amazon Cloud Investment
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OpenAI Plans Stargate Data Center in India with 1GW Capacity
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OpenAI is reportedly planning a Stargate data center in India with at least 1GW of capacity
— The Rundown AI (@TheRundownAI) 2 septembre 2025
The company is also planning to open its first office in Delhi, with CEO Sam Altman slated to visit soonpic.twitter.com/OS5sRLFBzvOpenAI is reportedly planning a Stargate data center in India with at least 1GW of capacity The company is also planning to open its first office in Delhi, with CEO Sam Altman slated to visit soon
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GLM-4.5 Surpasses Claude Opus in Tool Use Efficiency
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Z AI's GLM-4.5 just dethroned Claude Opus 4 in tool use with nearly 100x lower costs The model scored 70.85 on the Berkeley Function-Calling Leaderboard at just $2.9, while Opus 4 scored 70.36 at a cost of $207.12
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Tencent Launches Hunyuan World Model and Multilingual Translation System
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Tencent launched two new Hunyuan models:
— The Rundown AI (@TheRundownAI) 2 septembre 2025
—HunyuanWorld-Voyager, an ultra-long-range world model with native 3D reconstruction and memory
—Hunyuan-MT-7B and Hunyuan-MT-Chimera-7B, a joint AI translation system that outperforms rivals across 33 languagespic.twitter.com/NAeOdjGQa4Tencent launched two new Hunyuan models: —HunyuanWorld-Voyager, an ultra-long-range world model with native 3D reconstruction and memory
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Microsoft Launches 10B VibeVoice Text-to-Speech Model
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Microsoft just launched a larger 10B parameter version of its VibeVoice text-to-speech model
— The Rundown AI (@TheRundownAI) 2 septembre 2025
Available under MIT license, it generates multi-speaker podcasts (going up to 45 minutes) in minutes
Supports up to 32K contextpic.twitter.com/fO9JOT5RkJMicrosoft just launched a larger 10B parameter version of its VibeVoice text-to-speech model Available under MIT license, it generates multi-speaker podcasts (going up to 45 minutes) in minutes Supports up to 32K context
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Apple Launches FastVLM and MobileCLIP2 Open Models
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Apple launched two new open models: FastVLM and MobileCLIP2
— The Rundown AI (@TheRundownAI) 2 septembre 2025
The models are up to 85x faster and 3.4x smaller than previous work
Suitable for high-res image processing tasks like OCR, image captioning, visual question answering, and image understandingpic.twitter.com/uG9ObsWACuApple launched two new open models: FastVLM and MobileCLIP2 The models are up to 85x faster and 3.4x smaller than previous work Suitable for high-res image processing tasks like OCR, image captioning, visual question answering, and image understanding
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Apple Launches Open-Source Real-Time Vision Language Models
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AI NEWS: Apple just launched two open-source models for real-time vision language applications. Plus, more news from Microsoft, Tencent, Z AI, and OpenAI. Here's everything you need to know:
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ByteDance Releases USO Open Style-Subject Optimized Model
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ByteDance released USO, an open ‘style-subject optimized customization model’
— The Rundown AI (@TheRundownAI) 1 septembre 2025
It can preserve subjects and apply new artistic styles to create customized images
Available on Hugging Facepic.twitter.com/KNT359g98xByteDance released USO, an open ‘style-subject optimized customization model’ It can preserve subjects and apply new artistic styles to create customized images Available on Hugging Face
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Higgsfield Speak 2.0 Launches Realistic AI Avatar Video Tool
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Higgsfield AI launched Higgsfield Speak 2.0, a new upgrade to its custom avatar tool It brings more realistic motion, advanced lip-sync, and enhanced video control Also supports 70+ languages https://
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xAI Launches Grok Code Fast 1 for Agentic Coding Tasks
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xAI introduced Grok Code Fast 1, a fast reasoning model for agentic coding tasks
— The Rundown AI (@TheRundownAI) 1 septembre 2025
It uses a lightweight architecture for cost efficiency and is strong in TypeScript, Python, Java, Rust, C++, and Go
Free on agentic coding platforms for a limited timepic.twitter.com/iXcFS3MobexAI introduced Grok Code Fast 1, a fast reasoning model for agentic coding tasks It uses a lightweight architecture for cost efficiency and is strong in TypeScript, Python, Java, Rust, C++, and Go Free on agentic coding platforms for a limited time