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 customers. The model enabled internal teams to identify the top issues faced by our customers so that they could prioritize the right…
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…
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 Overviews, which was first introduced in Google’s popular NotebookLM, allows people to create podcasts on their chosen…
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…
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 funding infusion doesn’t just add to the Chicago startup’s already hefty war chest; it sharpens a mission to make…
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…
Anthropic just analyzed 700,000 Claude conversations — and found its AI has a moral code of its own
April 22, 2025
Anthropic, the AI company founded by former OpenAI employees, has pulled back the curtain on an unprecedented analysis of how its AI assistant Claude expresses values during actual conversations with users. The research, released today, reveals both reassuring alignment with…
A segment on CBS weekly in-depth TV news program 60 Minutes last night (also shared on YouTube here) offered an inside look at Google’s DeepMind and the vision of its co-founder and Nobel Prize-winning CEO, legendary AI researcher Demis Hassabis.
The interview traced Google DeepMind rapid progress in artificial intelligence and its ambition to achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI)—a…
