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January 2025

Every day's biggest AI announcements. Click any day for its full list.

What ran this month

21

Tuesday

2 items

  • funding

    OpenAI + SoftBank + Oracle: $500B 'Stargate' infrastructure

    OpenAI announces a multi-year, multi-party $500B AI infrastructure plan — the largest single capex commitment in the industry's history.

  • industry

    Min Choi: Min Choi marvels at AI's wild trajectory again

    Min Choi shares another amused reaction to the accelerating pace and surprising capabilities of AI development.

20

Monday

1 item

  • model

    DeepSeek V3 + R1 release — the Sputnik moment

    A Chinese lab releases an open-weights reasoning model at frontier quality, trained for roughly $5M. Triggers an immediate global reassessment of the cost frontier.