Crusoe reportedly raises $3B at a $30B valuation

Data center developer Crusoe, which counts Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI as its customers, has raised a new $3 billion round at a $30 billion valuation,Bloomberg reported. The deal is being co-led by Atreides Management and Valor Equity Partners, and includes participation from Mubadala Capital, the asset management subsidiary of Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund Mubadala. … Devamını oku

Abliteration.ai is making a business out of removing AI guardrails

It just became much easier to access one of the world’s most capable open-weight AI models, stripped of its guardrails and refusals to perform harmful tasks. Named after a technique that removes a model’s tendency to refuse harmful requests, startupAbliteration.aihas turned that removal into a service. The platform hosts modified versions of open-weight models with … Devamını oku

Google’s latest AI weather model gives you no excuse to forget your umbrella

Scientists at Google Deepmind and Google Research released a new artificial intelligence model for weather forecasting today that sees our changing atmosphere more clearly and predicts its behavior more often. WeatherNext 3 is the latest wave of a sea change in meteorology brought out by deep learning techniques, and Google says it will start feeding … Devamını oku

Nvidia confirms it will buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion

After weeks ofswirling rumors, Nvidia confirmed today that it has acquired Hugging Face for $12.93 billion. Hugging Face’s platform hosts three million models, one million applications used by over 18 million developers, and half a million datasets. Ina blog post,Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang said that Hugging Face will continue to support open-source and open-weight models … Devamını oku