DeepSeek nears $45B as China's Big Fund joins AI stack
deepseek is reportedly nearing a $45bn valuation, up from around $20bn only weeks ago, in its first major fundraising round, according to ft the round may be led by china’
deepseek is reportedly nearing a $45bn valuation, up from around $20bn only weeks ago, in its first major fundraising round, according to ft the round may be led by china’
Addy Crezee
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meta, stanford and harvard just dropped a benchmark called programbench, and it's the clearest picture yet of where ai is actually heading the setup: give an agent a
Nick Trenkler
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today the first ai agent insurance startup launched. it backs you when your agent goes rogue. here's why this exists in 2026 alone, autonomous agents have caused some
Nick Trenkler
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openai has raised more than $4b for a new joint venture to push its ai software into enterprises anthropic is reportedly nearing a similar ~$1.5b wall street-backed venture for
Addy Crezee
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reportedly the 1st ever job in a company opened for hermes ai agent it's marketing & sales operator at thinksmart. commission-only. remote. human and/or ai agent welcome.
Addy Crezee
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turns out we've been building ai wrong – a @ycombinator visiting partner explained on a recent podcast episode of decoded yc partners francois chaubard (@FrancoisChauba1) and ankit gupta (@agupta)
Nick Trenkler
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elon musk just admitted in federal court that xai trained grok using openai's models. his defense? "all ai companies do it." he's not wrong.
Addy Crezee
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for the third week in a row, andrej-karpathy-skills by @jiayuan_jy keeps its position among the most-starred github repositories with over 24k stars gained in the last 7 days also,
Nick Trenkler
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should you spend $5K on a Mac Studio or an RTX 5090 for local AI? in this short guide you'll learn: 1. more memory vs more speed – what
Nick Trenkler
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42 ai model releases in just 4 months all across 8 top labs. here's the breakdown: chinese labs: 24 releases us labs: 18 releases who shipped the most:
Nick Trenkler
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tencent just open-sourced a translation model that fits in 440mb and beats models 500x its size how? they compressed a 3.3gb model by storing weights in basically 1 bit
Nick Trenkler
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openai researchers dropped some signals worth paying attention to sebastien bubeck and ernest ryu joined the openai podcast with andrew mayne. here's the trajectory they laid out: • 2
Addy Crezee
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codex is now built for long tasks. but not for users yet? we called it yesterday: openai is optimizing agents for long-horizon thinking. now thibault sottiaux, codex team lead at
Nick Trenkler
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Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis) has had one of the most extraordinary careers in tech. He started as a chess prodigy and video game designer at 17 before getting a PhD in
Nick Trenkler
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nvidia keeps dropping free models. they are just ads for their hardware nvidia shipped nemotron 3 nano omni opensource today. there's one thing worth flagging the target user
Addy Crezee
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