Bloomberg reports that Elon Musk's AI startup xAI is currently burning through about $1 billion every month. The main drivers are steep infrastructure and chip costs for building its Grok chatbot.

The RELIC test works by giving an AI a formal grammar - essentially a precise rule set that defines an artificial language - along with a string of symbols. The model must then decide whether the ...

Researchers at the MIT Media Lab looked at the cognitive costs of using LLMs like ChatGPT in everyday writing tasks. Their 200-page report, "Your Brain on ChatGPT," focused on how AI tools affect ...

Meta has reached a deal with Scale AI for a strategic investment of about $14 billion, according to CNBC. Under the agreement, Meta will acquire a 49 percent stake in the startup. CNBC reports that ...

ByteDance unveiled Seedance 1.0, a new AI model for video generation. According to the company's tests, Seedance 1.0 outperforms established systems such as Google's Veo, Kuaishou's Kling, and ...

MiniMax says it's working to improve generation speed, stability, and add new features beyond the current text-to-video and image-to-video options. Competing platforms like Runway already offer more ...

Google Deepmind and Google Research have launched Weather Lab, a public platform that tests AI models for forecasting tropical cyclones. The new system uses a type of machine learning called ...

Salesforce has launched CRMArena-Pro, a benchmark designed to evaluate AI agents in practical business situations, including multi-step conversations and data protection checks within CRM systems.

LAION and Intel have released Empathic-Insight, a suite of models and datasets that can analyze facial images and audio files across 40 emotion categories, covering not only emotional but also ...

Meta’s vision for the future involves hierarchical models that can plan across multiple timescales—from fractions of a second to minutes or hours. Integrating additional senses like sound or touch is ...

TikTok has introduced three new AI tools—"Image to Video," "Text to Video," and "Showcase Products"—that enable advertisers to create video content in a more cost-effective way. These tools ...

A US court has decided that training LLMs using copyrighted books can qualify as fair use, as long as the books were acquired legally. The court found no fair use protection for books obtained from ...