New LLM Beats OpenAI o1?! Pony AI Looks to IPO, OpenAI "Accidentally" Deletes Lawsuit Evidence, and More AI Startup Funding!
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Headlines
OpenAI Competitor
A Chinese lab has released a ‘reasoning’ AI model to rival OpenAI’s o1 (TechCrunch)
Another Potential AI IPO
Chinese AV startup Pony AI boosts its IPO goal to $260M (Reuters)
OpenAI Deleting Evidence
OpenAI accidentally deleted potential evidence in NY Times copyright lawsuit (TechCrunch)
AI Spend Surges
Nvidia says it will sell more of its next-generation Blackwell chips than previously anticipated (CNBC)
Business spending on AI surged 500% this year to $13.8 billion: Menlo Ventures (CNBC)
AI Funding
Benchmark invests $19M in New Lantern, a smarter way for radiologists to use AI (TechCrunch)
H, the AI startup that raised $220M, launches its first product: Runner H for ‘agentic’ applications (TechCrunch)
Kaggle Competition
WSDM Cup - Multilingual Chatbot Arena
Predict human preference across multiple languages from real votes in the Chatbot Arena. $50,000 in prizes! (Kaggle)