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Isomorphic Labs raises $600M for AI drug design

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01 April 2025 7h30

Alphabet's spinoff Isomorphic Labs, which is behind AlphaFold, raised $600M

OpenAI investor Thrive Capital led the investment, with Alphabet and its venture arm, GV, in participation

The funding will help the startup develop its AI drug design engine!pic.twitter.com/Ety2uzkNXw
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 1 avril 2025

Alphabet's spinoff Isomorphic Labs, which is behind AlphaFold, raised $600M OpenAI investor Thrive Capital led the investment, with Alphabet and its venture arm, GV, in participation The funding will help the startup develop its AI drug design engine!

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1 April 2025

Amazon Nova Act AI Agent Beats Claude Sonnet OpenAI

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01 April 2025 7h30

Amazon AGI Labs unveiled Nova Act, an AI agent system that can control browsers to perform tasks

— Beats Claude 3.7 Sonnet and OpenAI’s CUA on reliability
—Will power Amazon's next-gen Alexa+
— Also includes an SDK to build custom browser agentspic.twitter.com/a6xK6N7Exb
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 1 avril 2025

Amazon AGI Labs unveiled Nova Act, an AI agent system that can control browsers to perform tasks — Beats Claude 3.7 Sonnet and OpenAI’s CUA on reliability
—Will power Amazon's next-gen Alexa+
— Also includes an SDK to build custom browser agents

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1 April 2025

OpenAI to Release First Open-Weights Model Since GPT-2

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01 April 2025 7h30

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman also shared that they will release a new open-weights model in the coming months It will be the first since GPT-2 and made "maximally useful" in line with developer inputs from upcoming events A big move!

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1 April 2025

OpenAI raises $40B at $300B valuation in historic funding round

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01 April 2025 7h30

OpenAI raised $40B at a post-money valuation of $300B—the largest private tech deal in history SoftBank led the round, with Microsoft, Coatue, Altimeter, and Thrive in participation The capital will help OAI scale compute and further push AI research

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1 April 2025

OpenAI Raises Largest Private Funding Round in History

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01 April 2025 7h30

TODAY'S AI NEWS: OpenAI just raised the largest private funding round in history! Plus, more news from Amazon AGI Labs, Runway, Luma Labs, Manus, Isomorphic Labs, and more. Here's everything you need to know:

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1 April 2025

Intel’s New CEO Lip-Bu Tan Commits to Company Future

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01 April 2025 0h40

Intel’s Lip-Bu Tan promises to be in there ‘as long as it takes’ Newly installed Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan became rather choked-up with emotion as he told the audience at the company’s customer event, “I love this company.” His tone was pitch-perfect throughout the talk, and his

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1 April 2025

OpenAI Partnership: Open Models for Custom Fine-tuning and Deployment

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@romainhuet

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01 April 2025 0h23

We’ve learned so much firsthand from developers building on @OpenAI
’s frontier models who also turn to open models—for custom fine-tuning, low latency, or local deployment. Brad captures why we’re excited to partner with builders around the world to shape this new open model.

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1 April 2025

OpenAI’s Open-Weight Model Strategy Generates High Expectations

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@localghost

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01 April 2025 0h07

Every OpenAI release has been impressive in some dimension. Very excited to see what they do with an open-weight model. I wouldn’t expect something mid.

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1 April 2025

OpenAI to Release First Open Language Model Since GPT-2

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31 March 2025 23h41

You asked, we listened! We’ll release our first open language model since GPT‑2 in the coming months. Thanks for the great responses to @sama
’s poll! The results were close, so we’ll host events to gather feedback. We’d love your input to shape the model: https://
openai.com/open-model-fee
dback/
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31 March 2025

Wall Street cuts tech price targets amid trade uncertainty

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31 March 2025 22h47

Wall Street’s Best Ideas: Slash those price targets! The uncertainty of trade and tariffs and what the DOGE is doing is prompting price target cuts across the tech landscape. Plus, why you should consider buying beaten-down MongoDB, and defending AppLovin against the short

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31 March 2025