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OpenAI is reportedly nearing a massive $40 billion funding round led by Japan’s SoftBank Group, according to Bloomberg. The investment could make SoftBank the largest backer of the ChatGPT creator after Microsoft. The round also includes participation from Magnetar Capital, Coatue Management, and Altimeter Capital. Bloomberg noted SoftBank may contribute up to $25 billion, reflecting CEO Masayoshi Son’s bold strategy to dominate the artificial intelligence landscape. This comes on the heels of a $500 billion joint initiative between SoftBank and OpenAI—dubbed Project Stargate—aimed at building expansive AI infrastructure in the U.S., including data centers to boost OpenAI’s computing capabilities. Increased…

Using CB Insights data, we highlight 6 predictions that pose disruption risks for insurance giants and emerging players. Insurance executives are facing a pivotal moment in 2025, as rapid advancements in AI — including increasingly capable LLMs — drive sweeping changes across the sector, from underwriting to catastrophe response. Now, the strategic question for insurers isn’t whether to adopt generative AI but how quickly. We’ve developed 6 predictions — informed by CB Insights datasets, including financing and acquisition data, Business Relationships, Earnings Transcripts, and Exit Probability — that we think will guide competitive dynamics over the coming year: AIG leads P&C…

Earlier this month I was in Las Vegas for HumanX, a new AI industry conference, alongside about 3,000 other attendees. I also moderated a panel on-stage with early-stage investors from three VC firms that have overwhelmingly been placing their bets lately on artificial intelligence: Kleiner Perkins, Bain Capital Ventures and Primary Venture Partners. For these three firms, investments in AI-related companies reached an astonishing 80% to 90% of their new portfolio deals in 2024. We discussed how AI is changing the terms of early-stage investing and chatted about the risks and rewards of investing in AI at the nascent stages.…

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More OpenAI has finally added a long-requested feature for ChatGPT users: the ability to reference internal knowledge sources.  ChatGPT Team users, one of the company’s paid tiers, can connect internal knowledge databases directly to the platform during this beta period, bringing company-specific information. A feature many enterprises say would give better responses to questions. This lets users perform semantic searches of their data, link directly to internal sources in responses, get the most relevant and up-to-date context, and ensure that ChatGPT understands…

When Twin came out of stealth in January 2024, AI agents were more of a theoretical concept than a reality. Today, the Paris-based company is releasing an automation agent in partnership with Qonto, the fintech startup that offers business bank accounts to more than 500,000 customers across Europe. If you want to automate repetitive tasks, there are already several ways to tackle these problems. Some companies use API-based, no-code or low-code automation products like Zapier. Others rely on RPA software, such as UiPath. With its team of nine people, Twin thinks there’s a much more efficient way to handle automation.…

This paper (by Apple) questions the mathematical reasoning abilities of current LLMs and designs a synthetic template-based dataset distribution to investigate various aspects around LLM performance of high-school level math questions. Paper: Abstract: Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have sparked interest in their formal reasoning capabilities, particularly in mathematics. The GSM8K benchmark is widely used to assess the mathematical reasoning of models on grade-school-level questions. While the performance of LLMs on GSM8K has significantly improved in recent years, it remains unclear whether their mathematical reasoning capabilities have genuinely advanced, raising questions about the reliability of the reported metrics.…

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