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Sam Altman at TED 2025: Inside the most uncomfortable - and important - AI interview of the year

April 16, 2025
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that his company has grown to 800 million weekly active users and is experiencing “unbelievable” growth rates, during a sometimes tense interview at the TED 2025 conference in Vancouver last week. “I have never seen growth in any company, one that I’ve been involved with or not, like this,” Sam Altman told TED head Chris Anderson during their on-stage…
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Now it’s TikTok parent ByteDance’s turn for a reasoning AI: enter Seed-Thinking-v1.5!

April 14, 2025
It started with the announcement of OpenAI’s o1 model in Sept. 2024, but really took off with the DeepSeek R1 release in Jan. 2025. Now, it seems that most major AI model providers and trainers are in a new race to deliver better, faster, and cheaper “reasoning” AI language models — that is, ones that maybe take a little longer to respond to a human user, but ideally do so with better…
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Writer unveils ‘AI HQ’ platform, betting on agents to transform enterprise work

April 11, 2025
In a Nutshell Writer, an Enterprise AI company, launched AI HQ to enable businesses to bridge the gap between AI potential and real-world results. The platform features autonomous agents for complex workflows, self-evolving models, and a $1.9 billion valuation with unique enterprise-focused models. Writer aims to transform industries by offering innovation partnerships in AI-native enterprise…
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Anthropic just launched a $200 version of Claude AI — here’s what you get for the premium price

April 10, 2025
Anthropic introduced a new high-end subscription tier for its Claude chatbot today, directly challenging OpenAI’s premium offerings and marking the latest escalation in the race to monetize powerful AI models amid soaring development costs. The new “Max” plan offers professionals two pricing options: $100 per month for five times the usage of Anthropic’s existing $20 Pro plan, or $200 per…
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