Tech Meme

TechCrunch: AI audio startup ElevenLabs raised a $180M Series C co-led by a16z and ICONIQ Growth at a $3.3B post-money valuation, taking its total funding to $281M  —  ElevenLabs, one of the more popular startups working in the field AI audio, said Thursday that it has raised a Series C round of $180 million … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Hayden Field / CNBC: OpenAI says the US National Laboratories will use its o1 models for research; it will work with Microsoft to deploy a model on Los Alamos’ Venado supercomputer  —  OpenAI on Thursday said the U.S. National Laboratories will be using its latest artificial intelligence models for scientific research and nuclear weapons security. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: Sam Altman briefed US policymakers on the need to invest heavily in physical infrastructure with Stargate to support AI development, citing the rise of DeepSeek  —  OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman briefed US policymakers on the need to continue investing heavily in physical infrastructure … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft makes OpenAI’s o1 model, branded as “Think Deeper”, free for all Copilot users, after launching it in October as a paid Copilot Pro feature  —  Think Deeper first launched in October as a paid Copilot Pro feature, but it’s now free.  —  Think Deeper first launched … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: Motif, which is building cloud-native 3D computer-aided architecture design tools with AI features, raised $46M in seed and Series A funding  —  Talk to many architects, and they’ll likely tell you that Autodesk’s software, including AutoCAD and Revit, has been indispensable to their work for decades. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ryan Christoffel / 9to5Mac: Mark Zuckerberg says he wants to make Facebook “way more culturally influential than it is today” and he is focused on returning to “OG Facebook” in 2025  —  Yesterday Meta reported its quarterly earnings, and amid sharing updates on Threads, Instagram, and yes … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Samantha Subin / CNBC: Microsoft’s stock fell 5%+ after saying it expects revenues for the current quarter to range between $67.7B and $68.7B, compared to $69.78B est.  —  Microsoft shares dropped more than 6% after issuing weak current-quarter guidance after the bell Wednesday.  —  The software giant topped … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft unveils Intel-powered Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 for businesses, both Copilot+ PCs starting at $1500, or $500 more than Qualcomm variants  —  Along with a new USB 4 dock, the Surface devices are designed for businesses.  —  Along with a new USB 4 dock, the Surface devices are designed for businesses. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mistral AI: Mistral launches Small 3, a latency-optimized 24B-parameter model that it says is competitive with larger models such as Llama 3.3 70B or Qwen 32B  —  Apache 2.0, 81% MMLU, 150 tokens/s  —  Today we’re introducing Mistral Small 3, a latency-optimized 24B-parameter model released under the Apache 2.0 license. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Europol and German law enforcement arrest two suspects and seize 17 servers to take down Cracked and Nulled, two of the largest hacking forums with 10M+ users  —  Europol and German law enforcement confirmed the arrest of two suspects and the seizure of 17 servers in Operation Talent … Lees verder op Tech Meme