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. PT.
VB Transform is a premier two-day event on June 24-25 at Fort Mason in San Francisco. Industry experts and peers will…
OpenAI open sourced a new Customer Service Agent framework — learn more about its growing enterprise strategy
June 19, 2025
Editor’s note: Carl will lead an editorial roundtable on this topic at VB Transform next week. Register today.
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…
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 speed.
The Alphabet subsidiary promoted two of its flagship AI models—Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash—from experimental…
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…
Do reasoning AI models really ‘think’ or not? Apple research sparks lively debate, response
June 17, 2025
Apple’s machine-learning group set off a rhetorical firestorm earlier this month with its release of “The Illusion of Thinking,” a 53-page research paper arguing that so-called large reasoning models (LRMs) or reasoning large language models (reasoning LLMs) such as OpenAI’s “o” series and Google’s Gemini-2.5 Pro and Flash Thinking don’t actually engage in independent…
When DeepSeek released its R1 model this January, it wasn’t just another AI announcement. It was a watershed moment that sent shockwaves through the tech industry, forcing industry leaders to reconsider their fundamental approaches to AI development.
What makes…
1Password, the Canadian password management company, announced Monday a strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services that puts the firm in position to capitalize on surging enterprise demand for security tools designed for artificial intelligence and…
The advent of natural language search has encouraged people to change how they search for information, and LinkedIn, which has been working with numerous AI models over the past year, hopes this shift extends to job search. LinkedIn’s AI-powered jobs search, now available to all LinkedIn users, uses distilled, fine-tuned models trained on the professional social media platform’s knowledge base…
