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Blaxel raises $7.3M seed round to build ‘AWS for AI agents’ after processing billions of agent requests

July 18, 2025
Blaxel, a startup building cloud infrastructure specifically designed for artificial intelligence agents, has raised $7.3 million in seed funding led by First Round Capital, the company announced Thursday. The financing comes just one month after the six-founder team graduated from Y Combinator’s Spring 2025 batch, underscoring investor appetite for infrastructure plays in the rapidly expanding…
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OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Agent With Full PC & App Access

July 18, 2025
OpenAI isn’t letting the delay of its open source AI model slow it down on shipping other features. Today, the company is unveiling ChatGPT agent, a feature that allows its AI chatbot to autonomously browse the web, conduct extensive research, download and create new files…
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Perplexity offers free AI tools to students worldwide in partnership with SheerID

July 17, 2025
Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine that competes with Google and ChatGPT, has partnered with identity verification company SheerID to offer up to two years of free premium service to more than 264 million students worldwide, the companies announced Monday. The deal tackles a key challenge for AI companies: providing educational access to expensive tools while preventing discount fraud.
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LEAP SDK: Revolutionizing Mobile AI Development

July 16, 2025
Liquid AI, the startup formed by former Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers to develop novel AI model architectures beyond the widely-used “Transformers“, today announced the release of LEAP aka the “Liquid Edge AI Platform,” a cross-platform software development kit (SDK) designed to make it easier for developers to integrate small language models (SLMs) directly into…
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A new paradigm for AI: How ‘thinking as optimization’ leads to better general-purpose models

July 15, 2025
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of Virginia have developed a new model architecture that could lead to more robust AI systems with more powerful reasoning capabilities. Called an energy-based transformer (EBT), the architecture shows a natural ability to use inference-time scaling to solve complex problems. For the enterprise, this could translate into…
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