BitcoinWorld Kog says software can unlock 30x faster LLM inference on existing GPUs French startup Kog is betting that software optimization can dramatically accelerate large language model inference on standard data center GPUs, claiming up to 30x speed gains without requiring new hardware. The company, which emerged from stealth in May 2025, says it has …
BitcoinWorld Writer unveils Palmyra X6 AI model and upgraded harness to slash token costs Writer, a provider of AI tools and agents for marketers, has launched a new flagship model, Palmyra X6, alongside significant upgrades to its agentic harness, aiming to cut token costs for enterprise customers by up to 50% on basic tasks. The …
BitcoinWorld Databricks wanted to raise $1B, investors offered $15B — it settled on $5B at a $190B valuation Databricks closed a $5 billion funding round at a $190 billion valuation, the company announced Thursday, after investor demand for the AI data company reached $15 billion — far exceeding the $1 billion it originally intended to …
BitcoinWorld OpenAI unveils Ultrafast mode for GPT-5.6 Sol, claiming 14x speed boost OpenAI has introduced a new processing mode called Ultrafast that it says can run its latest flagship model, GPT-5.6 Sol, at up to 14 times the speed of standard inference, delivering as many as 750 output tokens per second. The company announced the …
BitcoinWorld IBM and OpenAI expand enterprise AI partnership with new consulting practice IBM announced on Thursday a new partnership with OpenAI to bring the AI company’s models and tools to more enterprise customers, expanding OpenAI’s reach through IBM’s global consulting business and intensifying competition for corporate AI spending. The agreement, which builds on a previous …
BitcoinWorld Claude’s New Watermark: A Privacy Nightmare or a Necessary Transparency Step? Anthropic has begun watermarking text generated by its Claude AI chatbot, embedding invisible codes to mark content as AI-produced, a move that has sparked a heated debate among users on platforms like Reddit. The rollout, which aligns with the EU AI Act’s Transparency …
BitcoinWorld Twitch streamers’ content will train Amazon AI by default — here’s how to opt out Twitch has quietly enabled a new default setting that allows Amazon to use streamers’ video and audio content to train generative AI models, sparking immediate backlash from the creator community. The change, announced during an official Twitch stream on …
BitcoinWorld Cognition reportedly in talks to raise at $40B valuation, three months after $1B round Cognition, the AI coding startup behind the agent Devin, is reportedly in early discussions with investors to raise a new funding round that could value the company at $40 billion, according to sources cited by Bloomberg. This comes just three …
BitcoinWorld Hinton, Fei-Fei Li, and Ng Make the Case for Keeping AI Open—With Caveats At the Ai4 conference in Las Vegas last week, three of AI’s most prominent figures—Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton, World Labs CEO Fei-Fei Li, and Coursera co-founder Andrew Ng—offered a unified defense of openness in AI development, even as they disagreed on …
BitcoinWorld Thrive Holdings raises $2B to scale AI adoption across enterprises, backed by OpenAI and SoftBank Thrive Holdings, an AI-focused holding company backed by OpenAI, has raised $2 billion in new funding at a $12 billion valuation, with participation from SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners, and Altimeter Capital. The round, first reported by The New York …
