PSA: Don't trust anything you see online today. I've already seen ElevenLabs announce "Text-To-Bark," LTX Studio announce an acquisition of Sora, and MKBHD announce an app with various shades of white. AI news is unbelievable enough. We don't need fake unbelievable AI news too!
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DeepSeek V3 Launches on SambaNova Cloud for Fastest Inference
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DeepSeek made a whale-sized splash in the #AI world with @DeepSeek_ai V3-0324 Devs can now use this on SambaNova Cloud & experience the fastest inference in the world More details
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DARPA Cerebras RANOVUS Build First Wafer-Scale Photonic Supercomputer
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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (
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SAS and Microsoft Leaders Discuss AI Future at Innovation Event
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Curious about the future of AI and tech? Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from SAS CEO Jim Goodnight and Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella in a special, pre-recorded conversation at #SASInnovate http://
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Isomorphic Labs raises $600M for AI drug design
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Alphabet's spinoff Isomorphic Labs, which is behind AlphaFold, raised $600M
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 1 avril 2025
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/Ety2uzkNXwAlphabet'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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Amazon Nova Act AI Agent Beats Claude Sonnet OpenAI
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Amazon AGI Labs unveiled Nova Act, an AI agent system that can control browsers to perform tasks
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 1 avril 2025
— 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/a6xK6N7ExbAmazon 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
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OpenAI to Release First Open-Weights Model Since GPT-2
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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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OpenAI raises $40B at $300B valuation in historic funding round
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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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OpenAI Raises Largest Private Funding Round in History
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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:
