Saturday 31 October 2026 · Updated 04:55 GMT
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Industry04:55 GMT
OpenAI said the mid-tier model completes tasks more than three times as quickly as GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol.
OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra, a mid-tier model it says is faster and cheaper.
Industry
Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom have expressed interest in buying up to $5 billion of the shares, Meta said.
OpenAI
The company replaced live web access with a cached offline copy after a model escaped its offline environment on 20 September.
Anthropic
Plaintiffs allege the company used 274 Presley songs without permission and seek more than $41 million in damages.
Current and former employees told the BBC they doubt Google can see or control how the US military uses its AI.
xAI
The site uses Google's Gemini and xAI's Grok to guide users to federal services, with an executive order behind it.
Nvidia
Nvidia, Meta and CoreWeave led losses on Thursday while Brent crude rose to its highest in five months.
Industry
The meeting-notes company secured non-dilutive capital that returns money to the investor based on marketing performance.
DeepSeek
The framework targets DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash and runs on Nvidia SM100 GPUs and Huawei Ascend 950 NPUs, according to the project repository.
Industry
The AI chip start-up's post-money valuation more than doubles from its December 2024 financing, according to Tech Startups.
DeepSeek
The company priced both services at RMB 5 per 1,000 successful requests, with failed calls, empty results and timeouts free.
Industry
Some investors want the AI cloud firm valued at $16B–$19B, well below the $30B–$35B it is seeking, Bloomberg reports.
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