OpenAI unveils a groundbreaking Responses API that empowers developers to create AI agents capable of scouring the web, files, and computers, coupled with an Agents SDK for managing multiple agents collaborating on intricate tasks, ushering in a new era of AI-driven automation and productivity.
Six leading Chinese AI startups, dubbed the 'Six Tigers', reign over China's booming AI landscape, developing cutting-edge models and chatbots with talent from US and Chinese tech giants.
Pioneering researchers Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton received the 2024 Turing Prize for their foundational work on reinforcement learning, a technique that enabled breakthroughs like AlphaGo and ChatGPT by training AI agents through reward-based learning.
ChatGPT doubles to 400 million weekly users as AI video models from Hailuo, Kling AI, and Sora gain traction, while newcomer DeepSeek rapidly attracts over 10 million users in bid to rival ChatGPT.
Alibaba's unveiling of its powerful QwQ-32B AI model, rivaling DeepSeek's R1, sparked a stock rally with its Hong Kong shares hitting a 52-week high, fueling optimism among analysts about the company's earnings potential driven by its AI advancements.
Amazon-backed AI startup Anthropic skyrocketed to a staggering $61.5 billion valuation after securing a $3.5 billion mega funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, fueling its ambitious plans to expand compute power, advance AI research, and accelerate global expansion.
OpenAI, after hitting scaling limits with its GPT models, is pivoting its core AI strategy, shifting from building larger models to a hybrid approach combining pre-training and 'chain of thought' reasoning techniques, with potential industry-wide implications.
Google unveiled an experimental AI 'co-scientist' system that synthesizes research, generates hypotheses, and suggests plans, leveraging large language models and techniques like literature search, with early users enthusiastic but uncertainty around true novelty.
Anthropic unveils Claude 3.7 Sonnet, a hybrid AI model excelling in coding, front-end web development, and complex tasks, along with Claude Code, a command line tool enabling developers to delegate engineering tasks to Claude, achieving state-of-the-art performance on coding benchmarks.
Evo 2, a groundbreaking AI tool, unlocks the secrets of nature's genetic code, enabling rapid protein discovery by virtually predicting the form and function of proteins encoded in the DNA of all living and extinct species, potentially revolutionizing biological research and accelerating scientific breakthroughs.