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OpenAI begins training new frontier model — but GPT-5 won’t come for at least 90 days

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI this morning announced it has begun training its new “frontier model” and formed a new Safety and Security Committee led by current board members Bret Taylor (OpenAI board chair and co-founder of customer service startup Sierra AI, former Google Maps lead and former Facebook CTO), Adam D’Angelo (CEO of Quora and AI model aggregator app Poe), Nicole Seligman (former…
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Anomaly raises $1.45M for AI-driven Layer 3 gaming platform

Anomaly has raised $1.45 million for an AI-driven Layer 3 Web3 gaming platform. Anomaly unveiled its AI-driven layer 3 gaming platform, which the company said has captivatedTelegram’s users with a novel “play-to-airdrop” mechanism. The recent funding round valued Anomaly at $11.4 million post-money and it was led by Decasonic, with participation from Shima Capital, Round 13, Triptyq VC…
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From sci-fi to reality: The dawn of emotionally intelligent AI

Sometimes it feels as if the world suddenly jumps forward. Certainly, that’s what it felt like 18 months ago when OpenAI first released ChatGPT. According to a study from UBS, ChatGPT grew to more than 100 million users in the first two months of its release, making it the fastest-growing consumer application in history. At the time, there was a palpable sense that something dramatic was…
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Stability AI sows gen AI discord with Stable Artisan

Stability AI is finally bringing its generative AI technology for text and video content to Discord. The new Stable Artisan Discord bot service officially launched today, enabling users to generate images with Stable Diffusion 3 (SD3) and video with Stable Video Diffusion…
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New AI search engine Upend emerges from stealth, powered by 100 LLMs

As Google and Microsoft continue to revamp their search engines with generative AI models, smaller players are going in all to challenge them with their AI-first offerings. Case in point: Upend, a Canadian startup that has just emerged from stealth to empower students and professionals with gen AI search driven by some of the best large language models (LLMs) out there. Upend started out as a…
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