Prentis, new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman, Mark Pincus in talks to raise $100M |

Prentis, a new AI research lab focused on computer use models, co-founded by serial entrepreneur Ritankar Das and tech heavyweights Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus,…

Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous |

As Chinese open-weight AI models grow in capability and popularity, arguments about what should be done about them have once again reached a fever pitch.…

Thinking Machines Lab Drops Its First Model

Thinking Machines Lab, an artificial intelligence company started by exiles from OpenAI, has released its first model, called Inkling. The startup’s new model is open-weight,…

British Space Startup Launches Longevity Lab Into Orbit

Space is becoming the next frontier in longevity research. A British startup just launched self-run chemical experiments into orbit, in the hopes zero-gravity data might…

How Qatar Became FIFA’s Technology Test Lab

To casual soccer viewers, the game may look like it always has—same green field, 22 players, a referee, and the familiar rhythm of play unfolding…

SAP bets $1.16B on 18-month-old German AI lab and says yes to NemoClaw |

By OpenAI COO’s own admission last February, “we have not yet really seen AI penetrate enterprise business processes.” But for enterprise software giant SAP, whose…

Exclusive: Google deepens Thinking Machines Lab ties with new multibillion-dollar deal |

Former OpenAI executive Mira Murati’s startup, Thinking Machines Lab, has signed a new multibillion-dollar agreement to expand its use of Google Cloud’s AI infrastructure, including…

AI research lab NeoCognition lands $40M seed to build agents that learn like humans |

Investors are aggressively courting AI researchers to build startups that can make AI more reliable and efficient. Yu Su, an Ohio State professor leading an…

An exclusive tour of Amazon's Trainium lab, the chip that's won over Anthropic, OpenAI, even Apple  |

Shortly after Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced AWS’s groundbreaking $50 billion investment deal with OpenAI, Amazon invited me on a private tour of the chip…

This Sequoia-backed lab thinks the brain is ‘the floor, not the ceiling’ for AI

AI labFlapping Airplanesjust landed $180 million in seed funding from the likes of Google Ventures, Sequoia, and Index to do something most labs have quietly…