Author: Advanced AI Editor
Oracle sent its shares soaring after markets closed yesterday after reporting that it signed multiple multi-billion-dollar contracts with several customers. Now, we have an idea of who those customers might be. Oracle signed a deal with OpenAI for the AI company to purchase $300 billion worth of compute power over a span of about five years, according to reporting from the Wall Street Journal. OpenAI would start purchasing this compute in 2027. If the WSJ’s reporting is correct, this would be one of the largest cloud contracts ever signed. Oracle declined to comment. OpenAI did not respond to a request…
Google is one of the most ardent proponents of generative AI technology, as evidenced by the recent launch of the Pixel 10 series. The phones were announced with more than 20 new AI experiences, according to Google. However, one of them is already being pulled from the company’s phones. If you go looking for your Daily Hub, you may be disappointed. Not that disappointed, though, as it has been pulled because it didn’t do very much. Many of Google’s new AI features only make themselves known in specific circumstances, for example when Magic Cue finds an opportunity to suggest an…
The death of Matthew Christopher Pietras, an arts patron who had pledged millions to the Metropolitan Opera and the Frick Collection but whose wealth was not his own, has been ruled a suicide by the Office of Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York. Pietras was found dead on May 30 in his Manhattan apartment, but the medical examiner’s determination was delayed by toxicology tests, according to the New York Times, which first reported the news. The report attributed his death to acute intoxication by pharmaceutical drugs caused by the “combined effects of cyclobenzaprine, clonazepam and propranolol,” per…
Welcome to the AI Dailysection! Here is your daily guide to exploring the world of artificial intelligence, where we present the hottest content in the AIfield every day, focusing on developers to help you gain insights into technological trends and understand innovative AI product applications.1. TencentUpgrades HunyuanImage Model HunyuanImage 2.1, Supports Handwriting, 2K ResolutionTencent has released the latest image generation model ‘HunyuanImage2.1’, which supports native 2K resolution image generation and boasts powerful complex semantic understanding and cross-domain generalization capabilities, along with support for both Chinese and English input and high-quality text generation. The model has been open-sourced on Hugging Face…
As artificial intelligence technology rapidly evolves, hot news in the AI field emerges continuously. This issue of AI Dailywill focus on recent noteworthy advancements in AI technology, covering various areas such as image generation, video production, and 3D digital humans, providing in-depth interpretations for developers and industry observers. Tencent Hunyuan Image 2.1 Open Source, Upgraded Image Generation Tencent Hunyuan has released the latest live image model “Hunyuan Image 2.1,” which stands out for its support of native 2K resolutionimage generation and boasts strong complex semantic understanding and cross-domain generalization capabilities, while also supporting both Chinese and English input along with…
Cambridge-based CuspAI, an artificial intelligence company developing a platform to revolutionize how the world discovers and develops new materials, said today it has raised $100 million in an early-stage funding round. The Series A round was co-led by U.S. fund New Enterprise Associates and Temasek, with participation from Nvidia Corp.’s venture capital arm NVentures, Samsung Ventures, Hyundai Motor Group, returning investors and multiple angel investors. The financing comes just over a year after the company’s $30 million seed round. CuspAI was founded in 2024 by Dr. Chad Edwards, a chemist turned technology entrepreneur who previously worked at the quantum computing…
(Source: ArtemisDiana/Shutterstock) MLCommons has announced results for MLPerf Inference v5.1, the consortium’s benchmark suite designed to measure the speed of AI models across a variety of workloads. This latest round of results highlights how quickly AI inference is evolving, and so are the benchmarks measuring it. This cycle saw a record 27 submitters and introduced three new benchmarks: a reasoning benchmark based on DeepSeek-R1, a speech-to-text benchmark based on Whisper Large v3, and a small LLM benchmark based on Llama 3.1 8B. In a press briefing, David Kanter, head of MLPerf for MLCommons, said the benchmark suite has now reached a…
Augment, a startup focused on transforming logistics through artificial intelligence, has announced an $85 million Series A funding round, bringing its total funding to $110 million just five months after emerging from stealth. The round was led by Redpoint Ventures, with additional support from 8VC, Shopify Ventures, Autotech Ventures, and other prominent investors in logistics and AI. This funding will be used to advance product development, expand hiring across engineering and commercial teams, and broaden the reach of Augie, Augment’s flagship AI teammate. Augie is designed to automate and streamline logistics workflows from beginning to end. Unlike traditional automation tools…
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) trained with visual instruction tuning have achieved strong performance across diverse tasks, yet they remain limited in vision-centric tasks such as object counting or spatial reasoning. We attribute this gap to the prevailing text-only supervision paradigm, which provides only indirect guidance for the visual pathway and often leads MLLMs to discard fine-grained visual details during training. In this paper, we present VIsual Representation ALignment (VIRAL), a simple yet effective regularization strategy that aligns the internal visual representations of MLLMs with those of pre-trained vision foundation models (VFMs). By explicitly enforcing this alignment, VIRAL enables the…
This post was co-authored with Jingwei Zuo from TII. We are excited to announce the availability of the Technology Innovation Institute (TII)’s Falcon-H1 models on Amazon Bedrock Marketplace and Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. With this launch, developers and data scientists can now use six instruction-tuned Falcon-H1 models (0.5B, 1.5B, 1.5B-Deep, 3B, 7B, and 34B) on AWS, and have access to a comprehensive suite of hybrid architecture models that combine traditional attention mechanisms with State Space Models (SSMs) to deliver exceptional performance with unprecedented efficiency. In this post, we present an overview of Falcon-H1 capabilities and show how to get started with TII’s Falcon-H1 models on…