The general-purpose AI agent landscape is suddenly much more crowded and ambitious. This week, Palo Alto-based startup Genspark released what it calls Super Agent, a fast-moving autonomous system designed to handle real-world tasks across a wide range of domains – including some that raise eyebrows, like making phone calls to restaurants using a realistic synthetic voice.
The launch adds fuel to…
DeepSeek jolts AI industry: Why AI’s next leap may not come from more data, but more compute at inference
April 7, 2025
In a Nutshell
DeepSeek’s cost-effective AI model disrupted the industry, impacting Nvidia stock. Data scarcity drives a shift towards “test-time compute” for improved AI performance. This trend affects hardware, cloud platforms, foundation models, and…
From MIPS to exaflops in mere decades: Compute power is exploding, and it will transform AI
April 7, 2025
At the recent Nvidia GTC conference, the company unveiled what it described as the first single-rack system of servers capable of one exaflop — one billion billion, or a quintillion, floating-point operations (FLOPS) per second. This breakthrough is based on the latest…
TL;DR
In 2025, real estate is being redefined by AI, but not all tools are built equal. While legacy platforms like Skyline AI, Cherre, HouseCanary, and Enodo offer specialized capabilities, most remain expensive, U.S.-centric, or built for enterprise-only access. Enter GRAI: the world’s most comprehensive real estate AI advisor. For just $4.99, it delivers global property intelligence…
Devin 2.0 is here: Cognition slashes price of AI software engineer to $20 per month from $500
April 4, 2025
The Founders Fund-backed San Francisco startup Cognition AI (also known as Cognition Labs) made a name for itself out of nowhere in early 2024 with the release of Devin, its AI-powered software engineer that could work alongside human developers and carry out tasks…
AI lie detector: How HallOumi’s open-source approach to hallucination could unlock enterprise AI adoption
April 4, 2025
In the race to deploy enterprise AI, one obstacle consistently blocks the path: hallucinations. These fabricated responses from AI systems have caused everything from legal sanctions for attorneys to companies being forced to honor fictitious policies.
Organizations have…
OpenAI has made its premium ChatGPT Plus subscription free for all college students in the United States and Canada through the end of May, a move announced Thursday that intensifies the competition with rival Anthropic for dominance in higher education.
The offer gives millions of students free access to OpenAI’s $20-per-month premium service just as they prepare for final exams, providing…
How Amex uses AI to increase efficiency: 40% fewer IT escalations, 85% travel assistance boost
April 3, 2025
In a Nutshell
American Express revolutionizes internal IT support with generative AI in its chatbot, reducing escalations by 40%. Travel counselors benefit from AI recommendations, boosting efficiency. Further applications include colleague assist with 96% accuracy and…
The tool integration problem that’s holding back enterprise AI (and how CoTools solves it)
April 3, 2025
Researchers from the Soochow University of China have introduced Chain-of-Tools (CoTools), a novel framework designed to enhance how large language models (LLMs) use external tools. CoTools aims to provide a more efficient and flexible approach compared to existing methods.
Beyond generic benchmarks: How Yourbench lets enterprises evaluate AI models against actual data
April 3, 2025
Every AI model release inevitably includes charts touting how it outperformed its competitors in this benchmark test or that evaluation matrix. Model repository Hugging Face launched Yourbench, an open-source tool where developers and enterprises can create their own benchmarks to test model performance against their internal data.
However, these benchmarks often test for general capabilities. For…
