SportsVisio has raised $3.2 million to put the power of advanced AI into the hands of every athlete, coach, and fan.
The company has raised $9 million to date, and the round includes continued support from existing investors Sapphire Sport, Hyperplane and Sovereign’s Capital, and welcomes Mighty Capital, Sony Innovation Fund, Alumni Ventures, Waterstone Impact Fund and new strategic angels.
The…
‘Surpassing all my expectations’: Midjourney releases first AI video model amid Disney, Universal lawsuit
June 20, 2025
Popular AI image generation service Midjourney has launched its first AI video generation model V1, marking a pivotal shift for the company from image generation toward full multimedia content creation.
Starting today, Midjourney’s nearly 20 million users can animate…
GenLayer launches a new method to incentivize people to market your brand using AI and blockchain
June 20, 2025
GenLayer, a startup building decentralized legal infrastructure for AI and machine agents, has launched its first incentivized testnet, dubbed Asimov.
This marks the initial rollout of its multi-phase validator onboarding and technology validation initiative as the company…
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AI agents seem like an inevitability these days. Most enterprises already use an AI application and may have deployed at least a single-agent system, with plans to pilot workflows with multiple agents.
Managing all that sprawl, especially when attempting to build interoperability in…
With VentureBeat’s flagship event, VB Transform, just around the corner, we are excited to announce the finalists for the 7th annual Women in AI Awards. The winners will be announced during a special program on the main stage of Transform on Wednesday, June 25 at 4 p.m.
OpenAI open sourced a new Customer Service Agent framework — learn more about its growing enterprise strategy
June 19, 2025
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OpenAI has released a new open-source demo that gives developers a hands-on look at how to build intelligent, workflow-aware AI agents using the Agents SDK.
As…
OpenAI moves forward with GPT-4.5 deprecation in API, triggering developer anguish and confusion
June 18, 2025
Word spread quickly across the machine learning and AI community on the social network X yesterday: OpenAI was sending developers an email notifying them that the company would be removing one of its largest and most powerful large language models (LLMs), GPT-4.5 Preview, from the official OpenAI application programming interface (API) on July 14, 2025.
However, as an OpenAI spokesperson told…
Google launches production-ready Gemini 2.5 AI models to challenge OpenAI’s enterprise dominance
June 18, 2025
Google moved decisively to strengthen its position in the artificial intelligence arms race Monday, declaring its most powerful Gemini 2.5 models ready for enterprise production while unveiling a new ultra-efficient variant designed to undercut competitors on cost and…
The Interpretable AI playbook: What Anthropic’s research means for your enterprise LLM strategy
June 18, 2025
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei made an urgent push in April for the need to understand how AI models think.
This comes at a crucial time. As Anthropic battles in global AI rankings, it’s important to note what sets it apart from other top AI labs. Since its founding in 2021…
Last month, along with a comprehensive suite of new AI tools and innovations, Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini Diffusion. This experimental research model uses a diffusion-based approach to generate text. Traditionally, large language models (LLMs) like GPT and Gemini itself have relied on autoregression, a step-by-step approach where each word is generated based on the previous one. Diffusion…
