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India-AI Summit Third Consultation Gathers Startup Ecosystem Insights
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The third Stakeholder Consultation for the India-AI Impact Summit 2026 took place on 7th June 2025, with participation from India’s startup ecosystem. From skilling platforms to sustainability tools, early-stage innovators brought fresh perspectives on how AI can solve
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Midjourney Launches V1 Video Generation Model with Motion Controls
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Midjourney dropped V1, its first-ever video generation model
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 19 juin 2025
An image-to-video system, V1 generates four 5s clips, which can be extended up to 20s — with motion/action controls
Priced at 8x image costs, which Midjourney says is 25x cheaper than rivalspic.twitter.com/zmRRcj8ZYwMidjourney dropped V1, its first-ever video generation model An image-to-video system, V1 generates four 5s clips, which can be extended up to 20s — with motion/action controls Priced at 8x image costs, which Midjourney says is 25x cheaper than rivals
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AI Startup School: LLMs as New Programming Paradigm
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Nice – my AI startup school talk is now up! Chapters:
— Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) 19 juin 2025
0:00 Imo fair to say that software is changing quite fundamentally again. LLMs are a new kind of computer, and you program them *in English*. Hence I think they are well deserving of a major version upgrade in terms of… https://t.co/XCdh8EF4iNNice – my AI startup school talk is now up! Chapters: 0:00 Imo fair to say that software is changing quite fundamentally again. LLMs are a new kind of computer, and you program them *in English*. Hence I think they are well deserving of a major version upgrade in terms of
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Snorkel CEO Featured in Bloomberg on AI Infrastructure Shift
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Big thank you to @Bloomberg for featuring Snorkel CEO @AJRatner in their latest on the shifting AI landscape. From research roots to expert DaaS, we’re powering what’s next in AI infrastructure.
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Meta’s Billion-Dollar Investment in Scale AI Disrupts Competitor Landscape
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When news broke that Meta was investing billions in Scale AI, @dinabass and I had the same question: What will this mean for Scale's rivals?
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Arcee AI Announces AFM 4.5B Foundation LLM Model
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Arcee AI announces AFM 4.5B. Foundation LLM model 🚀 pic.twitter.com/tzZNDDpYVE
— abhishek (@abhi1thakur) 18 juin 2025Arcee AI announces AFM 4.5B. Foundation LLM model
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Community-Funded AI Lab Monetizes Operations Without Investors
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unlike the other ai labs we have no investors – we are entirely community supported. this means we need to charge money to run our servers!
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Arcee AI Joins Elite Group with Foundation LLM Model
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Arcee AI becomes one of the few companies to have foundation LLM model
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Democratizing creativity: removing barriers to entry in AI
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Great comparison. Taste + craft can come from anywhere. Who knows what we've been missing out on w a higher barrier to entry?