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The creators of the open source project vLLM haveannouncedthat they transitioned the popular tool into a VC-backed startup, Inferact, raising $150 million in seed funding at an $800 million valuation. The round was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed Venture Partners, confirming TechCrunch’searlier reportingthat vLLM has raised capital from a16z. Inferact’s debut mirrors the recent […]

It’s been nearly two years since Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella predictedAI would replace knowledge work— the white-collar jobs held by lawyers, investment bankers, librarians, accountants, IT and others. But despite the huge progress made by foundation models, the change in knowledge work has been slow to arrive. Models have mastered in-depth research and agentic planning,

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said he’s “surprised” that OpenAI has already moved to introduce ads within its AI chatbot. Inan interview with Axios at Davos, the AI leader was responding to a question about using ads to monetize AI services, saying the idea is something that the team at Google was thinking through “very

AI chatbots are getting better at answering questions, summarizing documents, and solving mathematical equations, but they still largely behave like helpful assistants for one user at a time. They’re not designed to manage the messier work of real collaboration: coordinating people with competing priorities, tracking long-running decisions, and keeping teams aligned over time.  Humans&, a

Prepping for the SAT is nobody’s idea of fun, but Google aims to make it less stressful with AI. The companyannouncedthat it’s now focusing its AI education efforts on standardized testing with free SAT practice exams powered by Gemini.  Students can prompt Gemini by typing “I want to take a practice SAT test,” and the

AI Mode, Google’sconversational Search featurefor complex questions, is getting more personalized. The tech giant announced on Thursday that it’s bringing “Personal Intelligence” to AI Mode, enabling it to tap into your Gmail and Google Photos to provide more individualized responses. The company firstdebuted Personal Intelligencelast week in the Gemini app to allow the AI assistant

The top talent behind yet another promising AI startup has been gobbled up by an incumbent. As part of a new licensing agreement, Google DeepMind is bringing on the CEO and several of the top engineers at voice AI startup Hume AI,reports Wired. What’s left of Hume AI will continue to supply its technology to

Twenty years ago, a Duke University professor,David R. Smith, used artificial composite materials called “metamaterials” to make areal-life invisibility cloak. While this cloak didn’t really work like Harry Potter’s, exhibiting limited ability to conceal objects from the light of a single microwave length, those advances in material science did eventually trickle down to electromagnetism research.

Since 2024, Anthropic’s performance optimization team has given job applicants a take-home test to make sure they know their stuff. But as AI coding tools have gotten better, the test has had to change a lot to stay ahead of AI-assisted cheating. Team lead Tristan Hume described the history of the challengein a blog post

Railway, a San Francisco-based cloud platform that has quietly amassed two million developers without spending a dollar on marketing, announced Thursday that it raised $100 million in a Series B funding round, as surging demand for artificial intelligence applications exposes the limitations of legacy cloud infrastructure. TQ Ventures led the round, with participation from FPV