The U.S. has a new horse in the race to build the best open-source AI model, a competition China is currently dominating, with popular models such as Kimi K3 from Moonshot and DeepSeek’s V4. Reflection, a New York City-based AI company, today unveiled its first model, called Beam. It “advances the frontier for the Western
Google and Google DeepMind researchers launched the DeepMind Institute on Wednesday to advance the conversation around artificial general intelligence (AGI). The institute lists DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg, Google executive James Manyika, and Google DeepMind chair Demis Hassabis as directors, with Legg serving as managing editor. The new institute aims to surface differing views between Google,
King Charles III became the latest global figure to press the AI industry for guardrails on Thursday, telling executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and Nvidia that “we need sufficient means of control before it is all too late.” His remarks, delivered at a summit at Dumfries House in Scotland, arrived as pressure on the
Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition: The UK AISI has a new head and a big set of challenges. Nvidia spends $6 billion to ‘reverse aquihire’ Poolside. Hugging Face reportedly looks to sell for $13 billion. Use of Anthropic’s top model lags. Why Americans use chatbots for health information. And what
Sun’s out, laptops out. Summer is the season of endless out-of-office messages, as workers cash in on their paid time off. But is the same true for those locked in the AI race? Miles Brundage, OpenAI’s former head of policy research, theorized on X that some AI labs may be more keen on vacay time
Inherent, a London AI lab founded by Google DeepMind alumni, says its AI agent just outperformed much larger models from Anthropic and OpenAI using a fraction of the size. Of all the startups launched by Google DeepMind alumni, Inherent has gotten relatively little attention. But while better-funded rivals have yet to show the world anything
