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Together AI’s $305M bet: Reasoning models like DeepSeek-R1 are increasing, not decreasing, GPU demand

February 21, 2025
When DeepSeek-R1 first emerged, the prevailing fear that shook the industry was that advanced reasoning could be achieved with less infrastructure. As it turns out, that’s not necessarily the case. At least, according to Together AI, the rise of DeepSeek and open-source reasoning has had the exact opposite effect: Instead of reducing the need for infrastructure, it is increasing it. That…
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Crunchbase’s AI can predict startup success with 95% accuracy—will it change investing?

February 20, 2025
Crunchbase will abandon its roots as a historical data provider to become an AI-powered predictions engine that forecasts startup funding rounds, acquisitions and company growth trajectories. The San Francisco-based company announced today it will relaunch its platform with AI models that can predict future business events with up to 95% accuracy, betting that artificial intelligence will…
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Breaking down Grok 3: The AI model that could redefine the industry

February 20, 2025
Less than two years since its launch, xAI has shipped what could arguably be the most advanced AI model to date. Grok 3 matches or beats the most advanced models on all key benchmarks as well as the user-evaluated Chatbot Arena, and its training has not even been completed yet. We still don’t have a lot of details about Grok 3, as the team has not yet released a paper or technical report. But…
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Ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati unveils Thinking Machines: A startup focused on multimodality, human-AI collaboration

February 19, 2025
Ever since Mira Murati departed OpenAI last fall, many have wondered about the former CTO’s next move. Well, now we know (or, at least have a rough idea). Murati took to X today to announce her new venture Thinking Machines Lab, an AI research and product company with a goal to “advance AI by making it broadly useful and understandable through solid foundations, open science and practical…
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