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Hemispheric, co-founded by Apple FaceID co-inventor Gidi Littwin, has raised $52 million in early-st...
Hemispheric, co-founded by Apple FaceID co-inventor Gidi Littwin, has raised $52 million in early-stage funding to commercialize an AI-powered diagnostic system for cognitive disorders. The startup ha...
Mistral AI launches vision-language model for robot navigation
French AI startup Mistral AI has released its first robotics-oriented model, a vision-language system designed to enable robots to perceive and navigate unfamiliar environments. The move marks the com...
Zhipu AI founder outlines 'Touch High' plan for AGI research, defying market slump
Zhipu AI (智谱) founder Tang Jie sent an internal letter to employees outlining a 'Touch High' plan that shifts the Chinese foundation-model developer's focus toward long-term AGI research rather than n...
Nota (노타) placed 3rd in the 'Efficient Qwen Competition' at ICML 2026, achieving a 6.978x average in...
Nota (노타) placed 3rd in the 'Efficient Qwen Competition' at ICML 2026, achieving a 6.978x average inference speedup on Qwen3.5-4B using a single NVIDIA A10G GPU. The company combined proprietary quant...
OpenAI claims GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra solved a 50-year math conjecture in one hour
OpenAI researcher Ethan Knight posted on X that the company's latest model, GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra, produced a proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture—a longstanding open problem in graph theory dating...
Microsoft Build 2026 unveils agent platform, reasoning model MAI-Thinking-1, and quantum chip Majora...
Microsoft Build 2026 unveils agent platform, reasoning model MAI-Thinking-1, and quantum chip Majorana 2. At its annual developer conference on June 2, 2026, Microsoft announced a sweeping set of new...
UtoMedtech applies AI to sinusitis diagnosis, expands into Southeast Asia
South Korean medical AI startup UtoMedtech is deploying artificial intelligence to speed up the diagnosis of sinusitis, a common inflammatory condition affecting the sinuses. The company is initially...
Apple M7 Ultra chip accelerates with 1.5TB RAM, Neural Engine upgrades from car project legacy
Apple is accelerating development of its M7 Ultra chip, which will support up to 1.5TB of RAM and feature significant Neural Engine upgrades, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The company is skipp...
Model routers emerge as cost-cutting tool for enterprises as AI bills spiral
A new class of middleware known as "model routers" is gaining adoption as enterprises face escalating AI inference costs from over-reliance on premium foundation models. These routing layers intellige...
PrismML Compresses 27B-Parameter Qwen Model to Run Locally on iPhone
PrismML has demonstrated a compression technique that reduces Alibaba's 27-billion-parameter Qwen 3.6 model from 54 GB to under 4 GB, enabling it to run entirely on-device on an iPhone 17 Pro. The fea...
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas said AI market competition is shifting from model size to operationa...
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas said AI market competition is shifting from model size to operational efficiency. In a July 12 CNBC interview, Srinivas argued that the key competitive differentiator i...
SK Hynix and tetraMem validate memristor-based in-memory computing SoC for next-gen AI chips
SK Hynix, the Korean memory giant behind HBM, has partnered with US startup tetraMem to validate a memristor-based in-memory computing (IMC) system-on-chip (SoC) for AI inference. The chip, fabricated...
Blue Yonder CTO Pivots to Generative AI Utilization
Panasonic Connect CTO Akira Sakakibara told Nikkei on July 10 that Blue Yonder, the supply chain management software subsidiary acquired by Panasonic Holdings in 2021 for approximately ¥800 billion (~...
Ant Robotics Lingbo (蚂蚁灵波科技) upgrades its full-stack embodied intelligence platform to version 2.0,...
Ant Robotics Lingbo (蚂蚁灵波科技) upgrades its full-stack embodied intelligence platform to version 2.0, releasing a suite of foundation models covering vision, action, manipulation, and physics prediction...
**SoftBank reveals its proprietary AI gateway 'Cloud Proxy' supporting the '1 person, 100 agents' vision**
SoftBank has announced the internal development and deployment of "Cloud Proxy," a proprietary AI gateway infrastructure designed to support the company's ambitious "1 person, 100 agents" vision. The...
DeepSeek, Zhipu AI pursue in-house chip development as Beijing weighs overseas model restrictions
DeepSeek, fresh off a $7 billion funding round, and Zhipu AI (智谱) are reportedly developing their own inference chips to reduce reliance on Nvidia, Huawei, and other external suppliers. The moves, cov...
DeepSeek begins developing custom AI inference chips to reduce dual dependency on NVIDIA and Huawei.
DeepSeek has initiated an in-house AI chip development program focused on inference processors, according to a Reuters report citing multiple sources. The Chinese AI firm has been working on custom si...
DeepSeek begins in-house AI chip development to cut reliance on NVIDIA
AI startup DeepSeek has launched a confidential project to develop custom inference chips, according to a Reuters report cited by TechNode. The effort is in early stages, has been running for about a...
**Ant Group’s Lingbo Technology releases spatial perception model LingBot-Depth 2.0**
On July 7, 2026, Ant Group’s embodied AI subsidiary Lingbo Technology (灵波科技) released LingBot-Depth 2.0, a spatial perception model trained on 150 million data points. The model improves edge clarity,...
Midnight launches privacy blockchain targeting AI agent transactions and institutional finance
Blockchain startup Midnight has unveiled a '4th generation' privacy-focused blockchain infrastructure designed for AI agent authentication and institutional financial transactions. The company's 'Rati...