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Paris-based Mistral AI has achieved Europe’s largest fundraising round in artificial intelligence to date, securing €1.7 billion and bringing Dutch semiconductor giant ASML on board as a strategic partner in a deal seen as bolstering Europe’s drive for technological sovereignty.France’s homegrown artificial intelligence champion Mistral has cemented its place among Europe’s tech leaders, announcing on Tuesday that it has raised €1.7 billion in fresh capital – a record for a French start-up.The fundraising drive has brought the value of the company to €11.7 billion, almost double its worth just over a year ago.The deal also brings in a heavyweight new…

Text-to-image (T2I) generation aims to synthesize images from textual prompts, which jointly specify what must be shown and imply what can be inferred, thereby corresponding to two core capabilities: composition and reasoning. However, with the emerging advances of T2I models in reasoning beyond composition, existing benchmarks reveal clear limitations in providing comprehensive evaluations across and within these capabilities. Meanwhile, these advances also enable models to handle more complex prompts, whereas current benchmarks remain limited to low scene density and simplified one-to-one reasoning. To address these limitations, we propose T2I-CoReBench, a comprehensive and complex benchmark that evaluates both composition and reasoning…

Is OpenAI planning to leave California?According to a new report from the Wall Street Journal, the AI giant headed by Sam Altman has discussed the possibility of having to relocate out of The Golden State due to the laws surrounding nonprofit organizations and OpenAI’s plan to restructure as a for-profit.Roughly one year ago, OpenAI announced its plans to overhaul how the company is structured. OpenAI began as a nonprofit, but the organization’s mission clearly changed as its AI chatbot ChatGPT took off. In September 2024, OpenAI said that it intended to restructure the nonprofit into a traditional for-profit company.However, the…

Real-time data activation is transforming how businesses operate, giving them the ability to act on information as it arrives rather than waiting hours or days. By moving beyond traditional batch processing, companies can respond in the moment, unlocking new levels of speed, agility and competitive advantage. For Reltio Inc., real-time activation isn’t just a goal — it’s embedded into its platform. By working with Workato Inc., Reltio leverages a low-code integration layer that synchronizes data across systems, creating cleaner pipelines, unified sources of truth and faster business outcomes. This collaboration ensures customers can act on insights in milliseconds, not minutes,…

As tech giants race to monetize AI, startups that make shipping AI products faster are coming into focus. OpenAI’s recent $1.1B purchase of A/B testing & experimentation platform Statsig at a 27.5x revenue multiple — one of its largest acquisitions to date — highlights this shift as model performance gains become increasingly expensive and incremental. Statsig’s CEO Vijaye Raji will also join OpenAI as CTO of Applications to accelerate development of its consumer and enterprise products. The trend is taking shape across the AI landscape this year. In August, Databricks acquired feature store company Tecton to support its AI agent…

Higgsfield.ai, a rapidly growing company specializing in AI for video creation, has announced the successful close of its $50 million Series A funding round. The investment was led by GFT Ventures and joined by a group of firms, including BroadLight Capital, NextEquity Partners, AI Capital Partners, Menlo Ventures, Alpha Square Group, and other strategic backers. The company is pioneering a new approach to video production that moves away from traditional methods and embraces AI as the core engine for creativity. Higgsfield’s platform is designed to simplify and accelerate the process of creating high-quality videos, especially for professional creators and enterprise…

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: ASML ASML this week invested €1.3 billion ($1.5 billion) in Mistral AI, a French AI start-up, in its latest €1.7 billion funding round, reports Reuters. As a result, ASML became the largest shareholder of Mistal AI, which is primarily known for its sovereign AI initiatives and its close work with Nvidia. The deal is expected to grant ASML a seat on Mistral’s board, providing strategic influence in one of Europe’s fastest-growing AI start-ups, which could be heading toward a $14 billion valuation.…

(Shutterstock AI) The White House held a private dinner last Thursday with some of the most powerful people in artificial intelligence. Executives from Meta, Microsoft, Google, Apple, OpenAI, AMD, Oracle, and others were invited. These are the companies building the core systems that power today’s AI. This includes everything from GPU hardware and model-hosting platforms to developer tools and foundation models like ChatGPT and Gemini. The event was officially described as a gathering of innovators and a celebration of American AI leadership. However, in reality, it was also a show of support. Tech leaders signaled their alignment with the administration’s…

We introduce UniVerse-1, a unified, Veo-3-like model capable of simultaneously generating coordinated audio and video. To enhance training efficiency, we bypass training from scratch and instead employ a stitching of experts (SoE) technique. This approach deeply fuses the corresponding blocks of pre-trained video and music generation experts models, thereby fully leveraging their foundational capabilities. To ensure accurate annotations and temporal alignment for both ambient sounds and speech with video content, we developed an online annotation pipeline that processes the required training data and generates labels during training process. This strategy circumvents the performance degradation often caused by misalignment text-based annotations.…

A revival of nuclear energy is spurring demand for uranium, as the hunt for fuel reshapes the investment landscape. Described as “the heavenly atom ,” uranium and its concentrated energy are essential for fueling nuclear reactors. After years of skepticisim following the Fukushima disaster of 2011, a growing need for large, reliable supplies of power to support the world’s AI boom has brought nuclear energy — and the fuel required for it — back into the spotlight. Demand for uranium is forecast to rise by nearly a third to roughly 86,000 tons by 2030 and to rise to 150,000 tons…