Y Combinator's Garry Tan urges US open-weight labs to distill frontier models
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan said US regulators should not act against distillation of frontier AI models, and that American open-weight labs should be free to use the same training techniques on domestic frontier models. In an int...
Nvidia weighs up to $10B investment in Anthropic IPO, Reuters reports
Nvidia is considering investing as much as $10 billion in Anthropic's initial public offering, Reuters reported, in a deal that could become the largest IPO on record. The talks are at an early stage and no agreement has been ann...
Anthropic in talks to add Nvidia as anchor investor in record IPO
Anthropic is in talks to bring Nvidia in as an anchor investor in its initial public offering, according to Reuters, which cited two people familiar with the matter. The report says the offering could be the largest IPO in histor...
Jeff Dean raising again for Discovery Loop at reported higher valuation
Former Google chief scientist Jeff Dean is raising funds again for his new AI startup, Discovery Loop, according to sources cited by Business Insider. The reported target valuation is far above the level discussed only weeks earl...
NASA and IBM release open lunar foundation model on Hugging Face
NASA and IBM Research released the NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model, an open-source AI model built for lunar science, hosted publicly on Hugging Face with its codebase on GitHub. NASA said the model was trained primarily on 17 yea...
Microsoft plans to more than triple data center capacity to ease AI compute shortage
Microsoft plans to more than triple its data center capacity, Bloomberg reported, as the company works to overcome a computing shortage that has forced it to turn away some AI and cloud business. The plan would expand the physica...