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River AI raises $1.1 billion to build AI you train yourself, not AI that replaces you
A two-month-old startup founded by an xAI co-founder just landed one of the largest seed rounds in AI history, with a bet that personal, trainable AI agents will matter more than corporate productivity tools.

Mistral Wants Europe to Own Its AI: Here Is What That Actually Means
The French AI company is giving businesses a choice of where their data goes, opening its platform to outside models, and rallying companies to lock in European computing power for years to come.

OlmoEarth Platform Scans an Entire Continent in 30 Hours Using Nearly 1,000 GPUs
The Allen Institute for AI has built a system that can run an AI wildfire-risk model across all of North America in about a day, at a cost of fractions of a penny per square kilometre. Here is what that actually means.

Open AI Models Let Companies Build Systems They Actually Own. Here Is What That Looks Like.
NVIDIA's Nemotron family is being shaped by law firms, hospitals and language communities into specialised tools that match frontier accuracy at a fraction of the cost.