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U.S. and Nvidia Invest $152M in Open AI Models to Drive Scientific Breakthroughs

The United States is teaming up with Nvidia to develop a new generation of AI models aimed at accelerating scientific breakthroughs and strengthening the country’s leadership in AI research. The National Science Foundation (NSF) will invest $75 million in the Open Multimodal AI Infrastructure to Accelerate Science (OMAI) project, which is led by nonprofit research […]

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Ai2’s MolmoAct Trains Robots to Think in 3D Before Acting in Reality

Ai2, or the Allen Institute for AI, is unveiling a new class of models designed to help robots move through the world with greater spatial awareness. Known as Action Reasoning Models (ARM), it’s billed as giving machines spatial awareness that text-based inputs alone can’t deliver. The first in this ARM family is MolmoAct, an open-source […]

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HubSpot Embraces Multi-AI CRM Strategy with Claude Integration

HubSpot is expanding its list of AI models connected to its Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform. Customers can now connect their databases to Anthropic’s Claude, allowing them to query data using natural language, generate visualizations, and take action—all within HubSpot. This is the second such connector the company has introduced, following the introduction of ChatGPT […]

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Ai2’s FlexOlmo Lets You Co-Develop AI Language Models Without Sharing Data

Ai2 has unveiled FlexOlmo, a new framework that lets multiple organizations jointly develop language models without requiring centralized data pooling. Ideal for those in regulated industries, it provides developers with granular control over how and when their data influences the model, addressing long-standing concerns regarding privacy, IP protection, and data sovereignty in collaborative AI projects. […]

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Ai2 Brings OLMo, Molmo, and Tülu AI Models to Enterprise Teams with Cirrascale Deal

Non-profit AI lab Ai2 is partnering with infrastructure platform provider Cirrascale in a move to commercialize its open-source models. OLMo 2, Molmo, and Tülu 3 can now be run via API on Cirrascale’s Inference Platform, enabling companies to avoid the need to deploy the models themselves and the associated costs of in-house systems or expertise. […]

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Ai2’s SciArena Benchmarks AI for Science, Inspired by ChatBot Arena

Nonprofit AI lab Ai2 has launched a new platform to help researchers evaluate which AI models perform best on scientific literature tasks. Called SciArena, it’s an open, collaborative service that enables head-to-head comparisons of large language models. Think ChatBot Arena—but built for the scientific research community. “Measuring progress in using AI agents for literature-grounded scientific […]

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The New Side Hustle for Graduate Students: Training AI

Handshake, the college career network, has launched a networking service to connect students with top AI research labs. The aim is to create opportunities for “highly educated, highly skilled people” to monetize their expertise while helping companies validate models and assisting in advancing frontier knowledge. “Handshake AI is the most ambitious chapter in the company’s […]

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10 Charts That Define the AI Boom, According to Mary Meeker

IN THIS ISSUE: Dig into key insights from Mary Meeker’s latest AI report, a sweeping 340-slide analysis that breaks down where adoption is accelerating, how innovation is evolving, and what it means for the future of technology. The Prompt Investor Mary Meeker’s reports are among the most closely watched in the industry, with entrepreneurs, investors, […]

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Ai2’s RewardBench 2 Is a Tougher Benchmark for Testing How Well AI Models Reflect Human Judgment

Ai2 has released an update to its RewardBench benchmark, making it more capable of evaluating reward models. The next-generation test is built using new, more complex examples to assess how accurately AI models can produce answers that are as accurate as those of a human. In its first round of testing, RewardBench 2 ranks Google’s […]

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Microsoft’s Project Amelie Is an Experiment in ‘AI Developing AI’

Microsoft Build featured a flurry of product announcements. But beyond the official launches, the company also offered a glimpse into its frontier projects—experimental inventions that may never be released to the public but serve to showcase the ideas Microsoft is exploring. One such effort is codenamed Project Amelie, an AI agent capable of building machine […]