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OpenAI-Backed Chai Discovery Hits $1.3B Valuation With Foundation Models for Drug Discovery
Chai Discovery just raised $130M at a $1.3 billion valuation, with OpenAI among its backers. The startup is applying foundation model techniques to predict molecular interactions—and it signals a broader AI-biotech convergence.
Disney's OpenAI Partnership Reveals How Entertainment Giants Are Hedging AI Bets
Disney's new OpenAI partnership comes with a telling limitation: exclusivity expires after just 12 months. The short window reveals how even the biggest content companies are approaching AI deals with unusual caution.
Lightspeed's $9 Billion War Chest Signals Venture Capital's Deepening AI Conviction
Lightspeed Venture Partners just closed a record $9 billion in fresh capital, with AI startups firmly in its sights. The massive raise signals that top-tier VCs see plenty of runway left in the AI boom—and are positioning to capture it.
NVIDIA Buys Slurm Creator SchedMD, Promising Open-Source Continuity for HPC Workloads
NVIDIA has acquired SchedMD, the company behind Slurm—the workload management system running on more than half of the world's top 100 supercomputers. The move extends NVIDIA's reach deeper into the AI training stack while raising questions about infrastructure consolidation.
Fal's $140M Series D signals Sequoia's big bet on AI infrastructure for developers
In a market where AI valuations are under intense scrutiny, Fal just pulled off something remarkable: tripling its valuation to $4.5 billion in five months flat. Sequoia's leading the $140M Series D, and the numbers tell a story worth paying attention to.
Former Databricks AI Chief Raises $475M Seed at $4.5B to Build Brain-Inspired Computers
A two-month-old startup just raised $475 million at a $4.5 billion valuation. Unconventional AI, founded by former Databricks AI head Naveen Rao, is betting that the future of AI computing looks a lot more like your brain than your GPU.
Enterprise AI Spending Surges to $37 Billion as Startups Dominate the Application Layer
Enterprise spending on generative AI has exploded from $1.7 billion in 2023 to $37 billion in 2025, now capturing 6% of the global SaaS market. But here's the real story: startups are winning, taking $2 for every $1 incumbents earn at the application layer.
OpenAI's 'Confessions' Method Trains AI to Admit Its Own Mistakes
OpenAI is testing a new training method called 'confessions' that teaches models to self-report their mistakes. If it works, it could fundamentally change how enterprises trust—and verify—AI outputs.
OpenAI's 'Confessions' Method Could Make AI Systems Finally Admit When They're Wrong
OpenAI is testing a training method called 'confessions' that teaches AI models to admit when they've made mistakes or acted undesirably. It's a direct attack on one of the most persistent problems in production AI: models that confidently lie rather than acknowledge uncertainty.
OpenAI Buys Neptune: A Bet on Infrastructure as Models Grow Unwieldy
OpenAI just bought an experiment tracking company. That tells you everything about where frontier AI development is headed—not just bigger models, but the unglamorous infrastructure needed to keep them from becoming unmanageable.
OpenAI and NVIDIA Launch Stargate UK with 50,000 GPUs for National AI Independence
The UK just secured its own AI compute destiny. OpenAI, NVIDIA, and Nscale are building Britain's largest supercomputer with up to 50,000 GPUs—a direct play for AI sovereignty in an increasingly fragmented global tech landscape.
OpenAI Goes Open-Weights: A Strategic Pivot or Competitive Necessity?
The company that once warned open-source AI was too dangerous is now releasing open-weights models. OpenAI's pivot isn't charity—it's a calculated response to losing ground in the race for developer mindshare.
Cursor Ditched Sanity and Built Their Own CMS in 3 Days. Is This the Future—Or a Trap?
Lee Robinson migrated cursor.com off Sanity in 3 days for $260 using AI agents. Sanity's response reveals a fundamental tension: is vibe coding the future of infrastructure, or are we about to learn why CMSes exist the hard way?
The Fine-Tuning Revolution: Why Custom Models Are Beating GPT-4 at a Fraction of the Cost
Companies are discovering that fine-tuned 8B models can outperform GPT-4 on their specific tasks—at 1/25th the cost. The era of one-size-fits-all AI is ending.
How a YC Startup Built LLM Training That's 2x Faster—And Runs on Your Gaming PC
A YC startup with 43,000+ GitHub stars just made fine-tuning LLMs accessible to everyone. Unsloth delivers 2x faster training with 70% less VRAM—and it's completely open source.
Together AI's $3.3B Bet: Why VCs Are Pouring Hundreds of Millions Into Open Source AI
Together AI just raised $305M at a $3.3B valuation—backed by NVIDIA, Salesforce, and General Catalyst. They're betting the future of AI is open source, and they're building the infrastructure to prove it.
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab Launches Tinker, Democratizing AI Fine-Tuning for Everyone
Mira Murati's new AI startup just dropped its first product—and it's a direct challenge to the closed-model orthodoxy. Tinker gives researchers the keys to fine-tune frontier models.
Anthropic Adds JSON Schema Validation to Agent SDK for Reliable Data Extraction
Anthropic just added structured outputs to Claude's Agent SDK, letting developers get validated JSON from multi-turn agent workflows. This fixes one of the biggest pain points in AI agent development: unpredictable response formats.