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Liquid AI wants to give smartphones small, fast AI that can see with new LFM2-VL model

Liquid AI has released LFM2-VL, a new generation of vision-language foundation models designed for efficient deployment across a wide range of hardware — from smartphones and laptops to wearables and embedded systems. The models promise low-latency performance, strong accuracy, and flexibility for real-world applications. LFM2-VL builds on the company’s existing LFM2 architecture introduced…
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OpenAI’s GPT-5 rollout is not going smoothly

Updated Friday August 8, 5:21 pm ET: shortly after this post’s publication, OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman announced the company would restore access to GPT-4o and other old models for selected users, admitting the GPT-5 launch was “more bumpy than we hoped for.” The launch of OpenAI’s long anticipated new model, GPT-5, is off to a rocky start to say the least. Even forgiving errors…
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Anthropic revenue tied to two customers as AI pricing war threatens margins

Anthropic’s meteoric rise to a $5 billion revenue run rate conceals a precarious dependence on just two major customers that account for nearly a quarter of the artificial intelligence company’s income, according to internal data and industry analysis that reveals both the promise and peril of the AI coding boom. The San Francisco-based maker of Claude AI assistant has built its business…
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OpenAI launches GPT-5, nano, mini and Pro — not AGI, but capable of generating ‘software-on-demand’

After literally years of hype and speculation, OpenAI has officially launched a new lineup of large language models (LLMs), all different-sized variants of GPT-5, the long-awaited predecessor to its GPT-4 model from March of 2023, nearly 2.5 years ago. The company is rolling out four distinct versions of the model — GPT-5, GPT-5 Mini, GPT-5 Nano, and GPT-5 Pro — to meet varying needs for…
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