Thinking Machines amps up its bet against one-size-fits-all AI with its first open model, Inkling

Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, released its first proprietary AI model Wednesday morning, called Inkling — and unlike the flagship models from OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google, it’s open-weight, meaning outside developers and companies can download it and modify it directly. Inkling is a mixture-of-experts system with 975 … Devamını oku

Whatnot acquires Shaped to power real-time live shopping recommendations

Livestream shopping app Whatnot announced Wednesday that it has acquired Shaped , a machine learning company that specializes in real-time recommendation and search systems. The deal is meant to strengthen Whatnot’s discovery and personalization capabilities as the platform continues to expand across new product categories and millions of buyers. According to the company, the acquisition … Devamını oku

Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba’s Qwen AI

Apple Intelligence, the iPhone maker’s generative AI offering, is coming to China. On Wednesday, Reuters reported that China’s regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China, approved Apple’s AI services in the country, on the back of a deal to integrate Alibaba’s Qwen AI model into Apple’s operating systems, including iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS. The deal, … Devamını oku

Rime picks up $24M Series A to help enterprises field customer calls

Voice AI startups’ biggest unlock has been handling calls for enterprises in areas like sales, marketing and customer support. Large organizations are offloading calls to voice model developers like ElevenLabs and Deepgram ; infrastructure companies like Vapi , Retell, and LiveKit; and dedicated customer support shops like Decagon and Sierra. San Francisco-based Rime is trying … Devamını oku

Anthropic, Blackstone bet the next trillion-dollar AI business is implementation, not models

AI models are becoming ever more capable, but exactly what enterprise adoption will look like remains a big question. In a bid to shape that future, labs like Anthropic and OpenAI have spun up separate businesses dedicated to deploying AI engineers to their customers’ offices — a bet that assisting businesses in figuring out how … Devamını oku