AI — Page 5
Models, agents, infra, applied AI.
- Subquadratic's founders have a new answer to the AI efficiency problem: show the benchmarks
After a skeptical May launch, Justin Dangel and Alex Whedon are using Appen tests and a technical report to defend SubQ's sparse-attention claim.
- David Holz's medical bet turns Midjourney into a body-data company
Midjourney Medical's scanner is hardware today, but the 2031 plan depends on turning spa visits into the training set for preventive AI.
- Hugging Face releases ML-Intern, its open-source agent for the model-training loop
The project turns Hugging Face's papers, datasets, Spaces and Jobs stack into an autonomous workflow for experiments and post-training.
- Head to head: Bernini-R Edit Video vs Luma Ray 3.2 Image to Video
This one isn’t especially close: Luma Ray 3.2 Image to Video wins by being better at the thing these prompts actually asked for—sustained scene logic, cleaner progression, and more convincing mood control. Bernini-R Edit Video has flashes of competence, but Luma is the model that consistently turns instructions into fi
- xAI puts Grok 4.3 inside Amazon Bedrock as Musk pushes Grok beyond X
AWS developers get Grok through Bedrock, but the real-time X data pitch remains clearer in Musk's posts than in Amazon's docs.
- Bobby Murphy puts personal money behind Snap's AI video spinoff Dotmo
Dotmo gives Snap's generative video staff a cleaner shot at gaming while Snap keeps equity upside without carrying the full internal cost.
- Alex Mashrabov's Higgsfield says it hit a $500 million run rate as investors circle
The AI video maker is raising a Series B after a 10x self-reported revenue run-rate jump since September 2025.
- Head to head: Bagel vs Ideogram V4.0q Text to Image
This matchup wasn’t close on execution. Bagel occasionally found the mood, but Ideogram V4.0q Text to Image was the model that actually followed the briefs across composition, layout, and text fidelity.
- Brian Schimpf's Anduril wins Air Force production slot for autonomous fighter jets
The FQ-44 award moves Anduril from insurgent defense contractor to a manufacturer in the Pentagon's next air-combat program.
- Head to head: grok-4.3 vs Phi-4-mini-instruct
This matchup wasn’t especially close: grok-4.3 wins on execution, not style points. Across the non-code tasks, it was the model that actually followed instructions, kept facts straight, and avoided the avoidable mistakes that dragged Phi-4-mini-instruct down.
- Head to head: Bernini-R Edit Video vs Happy Horse
This matchup turns on discipline versus style. Bernini-R Edit Video has flashes of taste, but Happy Horse is the model that actually nails the brief when the prompts demand exact objects, readable labels, and controlled motion.
- Head to head: Bagel vs GPT Image 2 API
One model treated these prompts like loose inspiration; the other treated them like assignments. Across all three tests, GPT Image 2 API was the more exact, more usable image generator by a wide margin.
- Odyssey raises $310 million as Amazon backs the self-driving veterans building world models
Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke are turning autonomous vehicle lessons into interactive AI simulation, with AWS now tied to the plan.
- Greptile's TREX pushes AI code review past reading diffs
The Georgia Tech-founded startup is betting reviewers need executable evidence, not another static pass over pull requests.
- Jack Hidary's SandboxAQ wins $500 million CHIPS award for AI chipmaking materials
The Commerce Department deal gives the U.S. a minority stake and pushes SandboxAQ from model vendor into industrial policy contractor.
- Anthropic's Mythos fight turns on the hacker who first told it to slow down
Nicholas Carlini warned Anthropic not to release Mythos in March. He is now central to its case that guarded access is safer than a ban.
- AGI House turns its builder calendar toward agents and automation
Rocky Yu's Hillsborough AI community is using build days to pull founders from model demos into live-web agents, identity, and enterprise workflows.
- Cursor Says Its Next Coding Model Is 1.5T Parameters and Training on 100,000 GPUs
A Compile disclosure shows Cursor pushing beyond tool design into frontier-scale model ownership.
- Qualcomm's reported Tenstorrent talks value Jim Keller's AI chip team at $8B to $10B
The reported approach would test whether Qualcomm wants another NUVIA-style team acquisition or a broader RISC-V AI architecture bet.
- Head to head: AnimateDiff Turbo vs Wan v2.6 Image to Video
This matchup wasn’t close: one model kept the brief in view, the other kept wandering off into style-first abstraction. Across both prompts, Wan v2.6 Image to Video delivered the actual scene, action, and progression; AnimateDiff Turbo mostly delivered vibes.
- Leaked OpenAI financials put a hard number on Altman's compute burn
Audited documents viewed by Ed Zitron and verified by the FT show $13.07B in 2025 revenue and a $38.5B net loss attributable to OpenAI.
- Coinbase rolls out AI investment advisor to Coinbase One members
The SEC-registered advisory product gives automated portfolio guidance while keeping trade approval and execution in the user's hands.
- Anthropic fight with Trump turns into a cyber-defense fight
Security leaders say the Fable 5 and Mythos 5 restrictions risk punishing the same bug-finding work defenders need.
- Head to head: Bagel vs Fibo Lite
This one turns on control versus completeness. Bagel produces the cleaner single image, but Fibo Lite wins the matchup by solving more of the brief where it matters: scene logic, composition, and spatial fidelity.