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In a lecture, an Anthropic cofounder argued humanity must proactively engage with AI's accelerating capabilities or risk being left behind.
AI infrastructure startup Baseten has announced a Series F funding round. The company serves billions of LLM inference calls weekly for customers including OpenEvidence and Speechify.
A global quick-service restaurant chain is using Fireworks AI's real-time voice intelligence to speed up orders and boost revenue, with plans to scale across thousands of locations.
The AI inference platform has closed a Series D funding round and reports hitting a $1 billion annual revenue run rate.
Fireworks AI has unveiled a partner program that brings together hyperscalers, consultancies, and AI tooling companies to help enterprises deploy generative AI at scale.
Fireworks AI rolled out an AI code assistance platform built on its inference stack, promising sub-100ms streaming completions fine-tuned to a company's internal codebase. The company cites customer results from Cursor and Sourcegraph as validation.
Alibaba's Qwen team introduces Qwen3Guard, its first safety guardrail model for real-time AI moderation, alongside new image editing and translation tools.
The inference platform maker claims it has hit a billion dollars in annualized revenue and is rolling out a broad partner ecosystem spanning AWS, Google Cloud, NVIDIA, Deloitte, and more.
OpenAI releases multiple blog posts on managing AI investments, articulating value models, and advancing agentic coding tools.
Specimens
Zhipu's flagship — agentic-first MoE with strong coding + tool-use benchmarks.
Open-weights coding specialist — 480B MoE, agentic by design.
Open-weights 1T-parameter MoE — agentic, long-context, the model behind Kimi Chat.
Open-weights 456B MoE with the largest free-tier context window in production: 1M tokens.
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Directory
The image model with the most distinctive aesthetic — favoured by designers.
One API key for 200+ models, with automatic cost-routing across providers.
The default AI assistant for most of the world. GPT-5.5 now powers the free tier.
Anthropic's flagship assistant, with the best long-context reasoning in the business.
An AI-first VS Code fork that has become the default IDE for AI-augmented development.