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$40B into the furnace: As OpenAI adds a million users an hour, the race for enterprise AI dominance hits a new gear

April 1, 2025
In a move that surprised the tech industry Monday, OpenAI said it has secured a monumental $40 billion funding round led by SoftBank, catapulting its valuation to an unprecedented $300 billion — making it the largest private equity investment on record. The landmark investment underscores the escalating significance of AI, and also signals a shift in the enterprise technology landscape. With…
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ChatGPT gets smarter: OpenAI adds internal data referencing

March 28, 2025
OpenAI has finally added a long-requested feature for ChatGPT users: the ability to reference internal knowledge sources. ChatGPT Team users, one of the company’s paid tiers, can connect internal knowledge databases directly to the platform during this beta period, bringing company-specific information. A feature many enterprises say would give better responses to questions. This lets users…
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Groq and PlayAI just made voice AI sound way more human — here’s how

March 27, 2025
Groq and PlayAI announced a partnership today to bring Dialog, an advanced text-to-speech model, to market through Groq’s high-speed inference platform. The partnership combines PlayAI’s expertise in voice AI with Groq’s specialized processing infrastructure, creating what the companies claim is one of the most natural-sounding and responsive text-to-speech systems available. “Groq…
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Saga Origins and Spirit Animation bring animated character Karl AI Agent to life

March 26, 2025
Saga Origins, a division of Saga, and Spirit Animation teamed up to bring the animated character Karl AI Agent to life. As one of the first animated characters to be transformed into an AI Agent, the strawberry superhero character Karl will now engage with fans in real time, delivering interactive storytelling and healthy lifestyle tips in an effort to reinforce the core messages of balance and…
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