Google DeepMind Partners With Game Studios on AI Gameplay
Google DeepMind announced partnerships with game studios to prototype AI-driven gameplay experiences, building on 15 years of AI research in games spanning from Atari to EVE Online, according to a blog post published on the company's…
AI Model Routing Becomes a Standalone Infrastructure Layer
Two companies moved on the same day to stake claims in what is crystallizing as a distinct product category: the intelligent routing of AI workloads. Callosum, a London startup founded by Cambridge neuroscientists, closed a $100 million…
Broadcom Seeks Up to $100B in Debt Financing for AI Chip Deal
Broadcom is reportedly seeking to borrow as much as $100 billion in debt financing as part of a new artificial intelligence chip deal, according to SiliconANGLE, citing a Bloomberg report . Bloomberg's own headline frames the figure at…
Nvidia Strikes $6B Licensing Deal with Poolside, Invests $1B at $12B Valuation
Nvidia has struck a non-exclusive $6 billion licensing deal with AI startup Poolside and made a $1 billion investment in the company at a $12 billion pre-money valuation, according to a letter to investors obtained by Newcomer . The deal…
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RANKED · 7 THIS DAYLiquid AI Ships Speculative Decoding for LFM2.5, Claims Up to 3.18x GPU Speedup
LiquidAI released DSpark draft model checkpoints for three models in its LFM2.5 family on August 20, marking the first public release of speculative decoding models for Liquid Foundation Models . The release covers LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct…
Pew Research: Over a Third of Post-ChatGPT Web Pages Show AI Authorship Signs
More than one-third of web pages published after ChatGPT's November 2022 release show signs of AI authorship or substantial AI editing, according to a study from Pew Research Center released on August 20 . The report used the Common Crawl…
Meta Spending Hundreds of Millions Annually on Microsoft Azure AI
Meta Platforms has quietly become one of Microsoft's largest AI customers, spending hundreds of millions of dollars per year on Azure to consume trillions of AI tokens weekly, according to Bloomberg . The report, by Bloomberg's Brody Ford…