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Stay up to date with everything that is happening in the wonderful world of AM via our LinkedIn community.A research team from MIT’s Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) has developed a new software tool that makes it easier to design and make cable-driven 3D printed objects. The tool, called Xstrings, can be used to produce a variety of products with embedded actuation, from robotic hands with gripping capabilities to interactive sculptures with animal-like movement.Cable-driven mechanisms are frequently used by engineers to create components that can move fluidly like a human or animal. This movement is generated by pulling…
AI caught everyone’s attention in 2023 with Large Language Models (LLMs) that can be instructed to perform general tasks, such as translation or coding, just by prompting. This naturally led to an intense focus on models as the primary ingredient in AI application development, with everyone wondering what capabilities new LLMs will bring. As more developers begin to build using LLMs, however, we believe that this focus is rapidly changing: state-of-the-art AI results are increasingly obtained by compound systems with multiple components, not just monolithic models. For example, Google’s AlphaCode 2 set state-of-the-art results in programming through a carefully engineered…
FILE PHOTO: IBM is reportedly laying off thousands of U.S. employees and moving them to India. | Photo Credit: Reuters IBM is reportedly laying off thousands of U.S. employees and moving them to India. A report by The Register has stated that it spoke to employees who were asked to train Indian employees on their job role after being told they would soon have to leave. According to the outlet, IBM has also listed 173 open positions since January this year with 2,946 openings available since November last year. Some of the employees who were laid off and asked for an internal transfer were…
NEW YORK — The New York Yankees’ bats were the story of the team’s franchise-record nine-home run day against the Milwaukee Brewers on Saturday. Then came the discussion about the actual bats used by some players in the 20-9 win.The uniquely shaped lumber is the result of two years of research and experimentation with a former Massachusetts Institute of Technology physicist-turned-coach at the helm.The question at its center?“Where are you trying to hit the ball?” Aaron Leanhardt said in a phone interview Sunday morning. “Where are you trying to make contact?”Leanhardt, 48, began his work when he was a member…
Shares in Couchbase Inc. rose in late trading today despite the database company reporting mixed results in its fiscal 2025 fourth quarter and falling short on revenue outlook for the year ahead. For the quarter that ended on Jan. 31, Couchbase reported an adjusted net loss per share of 30 cents, down from a loss of 44 cents in the same quarter of the previous year, on revenue of $54.9 million, up 10% year-over-year. The earnings per share loss was significantly larger than the loss of eight cents per share expected by analysts, but Couchbase’s revenue was ahead of an…
ChatGPT Fast FactsWhat is ChatGPT? A generative AI that can answer questions in natural-sounding language.Who developed ChatGPT? OpenAI, Inc.Pricing:ChatGPT has a free tier.ChatGPT Plus costs $20/month.ChatGPT Teams, which is the business subscription for at least two people, costs $25/month.ChatGPT Pro, with unlimited access to OpenAI’s most powerful “reasoning” model, costs $200/month. The business world has embraced ChatGPT over the last year and found uses for the writing and image generation AI throughout many industries. This cheat sheet includes answers to the most common questions about ChatGPT and its competitors. What is ChatGPT? ChatGPT is an AI chatbot product developed by…
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…
We mined the CB Insights database to map 170+ AI agent startups across 26 categories. We also provide an outlook on AI agents’ progress, limitations, and future directions. “Digital coworkers” are moving from concept to reality. While AI copilots have already made inroads across industries, the next evolution — autonomous agents with greater decision-making scope — is arriving quickly. AI agent startups raised $3.8B in 2024 (nearly tripling 2023’s total), and every big tech player is already developing AI agents or offering the tooling for them. Implications for enterprises will be far-reaching, from altering workforce composition (with new hybrid teams…
Artificial intelligence infrastructure provider Nexthop AI raised a massive $110 million round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. The fresh round also included participation from Kleiner Perkins, WestBridge Capital, Battery Ventures and Emergent Ventures. Nexthop AI builds custom networking solutions for the hyperscalers, including networking hardware designed to each customer’s specifications and a choice of a network operating system with the company’s own AI. “Hyperscalers need the ecosystem to innovate with them to accelerate their infrastructure deployments,” said CEO Anshul Sadana. “Nexthop AI is a force-multiplier, as it partners with and works as an extension of the cloud companies’ engineering teams.…
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Anthropic has developed a new method for peering inside large language models (LLMs) like Claude, revealing for the first time how these AI systems process information and make decisions. The research, published today in two papers (available here and here), shows these models are more sophisticated than previously understood — they plan ahead when writing poetry, use the same internal blueprint to interpret ideas regardless of language, and sometimes even work backward from a desired outcome instead of simply building up…