January 2025 shook the AI landscape. The seemingly unstoppable OpenAI and the powerful American tech giants were shocked by what we can certainly call an underdog in the area of large language models (LLMs). DeepSeek, a Chinese firm not on anyone’s radar, suddenly challenged OpenAI. It is not that DeepSeek-R1 was better than the top models from American giants; it was slightly behind in terms of…
Ziff Davis and IGN sue OpenAI for copyright infringement
April 28, 2025
In one of the more common disputes of modern AI, Ziff Davis, IGN Entertainment and Everyday Health Media have sued Open AI for copyright infringement.
The lawsuit from the media companies alleged copyright infringement, violations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act…
In my first stint as a machine learning (ML) product manager, a simple question inspired passionate debates across functions and leaders: How do we know if this product is actually working? The product in question that I managed catered to both internal and external…
OpenAI makes ChatGPT’s image generation available as API
April 24, 2025
People can now natively incorporate Studio Ghibli-inspired pictures generated by ChatGPT into their businesses. OpenAI has added the model behind its wildly popular image generation tool, used in ChatGPT, to its API.
The gpt-image-1 model will allow developers and enterprises to “integrate high-quality, professional-grade image generation directly into their own tools and platforms.”
“The…
Former DeepSeeker and collaborators release new method for training reliable AI agents: RAGEN
April 24, 2025
2025 was, by many expert accounts, supposed to be the year of AI agents — task-specific AI implementations powered by leading large language and multimodal models (LLMs) like the kinds offered by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and DeepSeek.
But so far, most AI agents remain…
Google continues to bring its flagship AI models to its productivity apps, expanding its Gemini features.
The company today announced several updates to its Workspace products, including the addition of Audio Overviews and new streamlined methods for tracking meetings.
Audio…
Researchers from Stanford University and Google DeepMind have unveiled Step-Wise Reinforcement Learning (SWiRL), a technique designed to enhance the ability of large language models (LLMs) to tackle complex tasks requiring multi-step reasoning and tool use.
As the interest in AI agents and LLM tool use continues to increase, this technique could offer substantial benefits for enterprises looking…
Coding with the help of AI models continues to gain popularity, but many have highlighted issues that arise when developers rely on coding assistants.
However, researchers from MIT, McGill University, ETH Zurich, Johns Hopkins University, Yale and the Mila-Quebec Artificial…
Ocient Raises $42.1 Million for Data Solutions
April 23, 2025
Hyperscale data warehouse vendor Ocient announced today that it has raised $42.1 million as the second extension of its series B funding to accelerate the development and delivery of energy-efficient solutions for costly and unwieldy operational data and AI workloads.
The…
Aethir, a provider of decentralized GPU cloud compute, announced the launch of AI Unbundled, an industry-wide alliance for the development of artificial intelligence in Web3.
The initiative brings together top decentralized infrastructure providers, blockchain networks, and investment firms, including 0G Labs, Biconomy, Polyhedra, Oasis Protocol Foundation, ChainGPT, IoTeX, iExec, Geodnet…
