Chipmaker AMD is taking aim at competitor Nvidia with its latest hardware release: a rack-scale system designed to meet the computing needs of the world’s largest artificial intelligence labs. At the company’s sold-out Advancing AI conference in San Francisco on Thursday, AMD President and CEO Dr. Lisa Su promoted the new AI rack system known
Weeks after OpenAI launched a new family of conversational models and updated ChatGPT’s voice mode, rival Anthropic is taking steps to make Claude more voice-friendly with a new update. The company said Thursday that users can choose between Opus, Sonnet and Haiku models. Claude’s voice mode, which launched last year and runs on the Haiku
Anthropic jumped to a revenue rate of $47 billion in May, up from $9 billion in 2025. It’s the kind of growth Menlo Ventures’ Matt Murphy says he’s never seen in 25 years of investing, not in the Internet wave, not in mobile, not in the first cloud boom. Menlo led Anthropic’s $500 million Series
A White House adviser accused China’s Moonshot AI of a “large-scale” effort to steal the capabilities of leading American artificial intelligence (AI) models. US President Donald Trump’s Science and Technology Advisor Michael Kratsios said Moonshot AI carried out the campaign through what is known as distillation, when a weaker AI model extracts answers from a
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent doubled down on his warnings to Chinese AI companies on Wednesday, saying sanctions remain on the table after a White House official accused Moonshot of improperly distilling Anthropic’s Fable model. Model distillation is a common AI training technique in which a smaller model learns from the results of a larger
It’s been a big year for AI acquisitions, so big that most of them barely register. Anthropic and OpenAI have continued to buy, acquiring developer tools, AI service shops, and product testing startups to turn model capability into enterprise revenue and expand their reach faster than each other. Which is what made the weekend rumor