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OpenAI's for-profit arm will become a Public Benefit Corporation while remaining under nonprofit oversight, aiming to align profit incentives with its long-term mission.

Anysphere raised $900 million, led by Thrive Capital, valuing the AI coding tool maker at $9 billion. Existing investors like a16z and Accel joined the round. Competitors like Windsurf are also seeing heightened investor interest, with OpenAI reportedly eyeing acquisition opportunities.

Jure Leskovec's keynote at The Web Conference introduces STaRK, AvaTaR, and CollabLLM, new frameworks pushing AI agents to reason, collaborate, and test hypotheses using knowledge graphs, tools, and multi-turn optimization.

Listen Labs launched an AI presentation generator that automatically creates slides by analyzing audio and video content. This tool enables users to quickly repurpose existing media into slide formats.

Perplexity is using RL techniques like PPO and GRPO to boost math reasoning capabilities in models. This post shares insights into training pipelines and performance lessons.

LRAGE offers an open-source framework for evaluating legal-domain LLMs in retrieval-augmented generation tasks, with integrated datasets and tools to support research.

A theoretical and empirical analysis revealed how one-layer transformers can learn even pair and parity check tasks, showing distinct training dynamics and benefits from Chain-of-Thought integration.

Another of many new speech generation models. This one has strong zero shot voice cloning capabilities and hints of expressiveness control.

Hasan Sukkar is stepping down as CEO of AI startup 11x, with CTO Prabhav Jain taking over. Sukkar will remain as non-executive chairman, focusing on strategic direction and growth. Despite past controversies, 11x has raised over $70 million from investors, who continue to express strong support for the company's future.

PyTorch has kicked off a community-driven event to improve its documentation and make it easier for users to transition from research to production.

Huawei is developing the Ascend 910D AI chip to compete with Nvidia's H100 series. The company seeks Chinese partners for testing amid US export restrictions on AI chips. Success could mitigate the impact of US controls on China's AI market.

PyTorch Day France brings together open source AI contributors for a one-day event with talks, real-world case studies, and community networking opportunities.

Google.org announced funding for 49 organizations across Asia-Pacific and committed an additional $12M to support AI education and workforce training.

Anthropic is providing free API credits to researchers in biology and life sciences to accelerate discovery through its new AI for Science initiative.