Mira Murati says her startup Thinking Machines will release new product in ‘months’ with ‘significant open source component’
Mira Murati, founder of AI startup Thinking Machines and former chief technology officer of OpenAI, today announced a new round of $2 billion in venture funding, and stated that her company’s first product will launch in the coming months and will include a “significant open source component…useful for researchers and startups developing custom models.”
At INBOUND 2025, AI and human creativity take the stage together
INBOUND, HubSpot’s flagship conference for marketing, sales, and customer service professionals, is headed to the west coast for the first time September 3-5, 2025. Over three days, attendees can expect bold insights, meaningful connections, and breakthrough content spanning marketing, sales, customer experience, and AI innovation — all designed to blend the familiar with the surprising, says Courtney Dagher, global events senior team manager, marketing & programming.
zip debuts 50 AI agents to kill procurement inefficiencies—OpenAI is already on board
zip, the $2.2 billion procurement platform startup, unveiled a suite of 50 specialized artificial intelligence agents on Tuesday designed to automate the tedious manual work that plagues enterprise purchasing departments worldwide. This marks what industry analysts call the most significant advancement in procurement technology in decades.
Emotive voice AI startup Hume launches new EVI 3 model with rapid custom voice creation
New York-based AI startup Hume has unveiled its latest Empathic Voice Interface (EVI) conversational AI model, EVI 3 (pronounced “Evee” Three, like the Pokémon character), targeting everything from powering customer support systems and health coaching to immersive storytelling and virtual companionship.
Alphabet's Internet Startup Eyes Federal Funding to Help It Compete With Starlink
Alphabet's Taara startup says its 'fiber over the air' technology meets the requirements for the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program.
Wix Acquires AI Platform That Enables Anyone To Create Software
Wix acquired Base44, an AI platform that enables users to create functional software in minutes using a chat-based interface.
OpenAI buys Jony Ive's design startup for $6.5 billion
I guess OpenAI is doing hardware now.
Mistral AI launches Devstral, powerful new open source SWE agent model that runs on laptops
Well-funded French AI model maker Mistral has consistently punched above its weight since its debut of its own powerful open source foundation model in fall 2023 — but it took some criticism among developers on X recently for its last release of a proprietary large language model (LLM) called Medium 3, which some viewed as betraying its open source roots and commitment.
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How DoorDash is evolving its retail media arm as ad revenue grows
The ads division just acquired ad-tech startup Symbiosys for $175 million and is introducing new artificial intelligence tools for restaurant brands.
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FLUX.1 Kontext enables in-context image generation for enterprise AI pipelines
The company also announced its new BFL Playground, where people can try out BFL’s models before letting them loose on enterprise applications.