Meta launches Llama 4 suite, ups ante in LLM wars
Meta launched Llama 4 family with open weights with two models available so far on AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud.
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Microsoft updates Copilot, Azure AI Foundry
Microsoft added a bevy of new features for Copilot to enhance memory, ability to take action and conduct research and also updated its Azure AI Foundry with tools to build AI agent systems.
AI’s insatiable demand for data is crushing Wikimedia’s infrastructure
Wikimedia, the organization behind Wikipedia, said its infrastructure is being taxed by non-human traffic scraping the site for data to train AI models.
Google Gemini vs. OpenAI, DeepSeek vs. Qwen: What we're learning from model wars
Enterprise leaders should be forgiven for nursing a case of whiplash over the latest large language model (LLM) developments. Almost daily, there's some advance that generates headlines. Instead of chasing every little benchmark, here's a crib sheet of what we're learning from the never-ending game of LLM leapfrog.
OpenAI's GPT-4.5 has more emotional intelligence, could expand use cases
OpenAI launched a research preview for GPT 4.5 and perhaps the biggest takeaway is that it can fake emotional intelligence pretty well--potentially better than a few humans we know.
Snowflake adds OpenAI models to Cortex AI via expanded Microsoft partnership, integration
Snowflake Cortex AI will integrate Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service in Azure AI Foundry. That move will put OpenAI's models Snowflake and make them available as data agents in Snowflake's AI Data Cloud.
Cohere launches North, aims to be an AI agent workspace
Cohere launched an early access program for North, an AI platform designed to make daily work more efficient. The aim for Cohere North is to combine large language models, search and agents in one secure enterprise work and collaboration platform that can run anywhere.
AWS launches Amazon Nova foundation models in commoditization play
Amazon Web Services launched Amazon Nova, a series of foundation models available in Bedrock, in a move that aims to provide large language model choice and commoditize the market.
Amazon invests another $4 billion in Anthropic, expands partnership
Amazon will invest another $4 billion in Anthropic to bring its total investment to $8 billion. Anthropic will also use AWS as its primary training partner and use AWS Trainium and Inferentia processors to deploy its largest large language models.
Zoho focuses LLM efforts on Nvidia architecture
Ramprakash Ramamoorthy, Director of AI at Zoho, said the company is focused on developing large language models (LLMs) designed for business use cases and integrated into its stack.
Anthropic's Claude 3.5 Sonnet model can use your computer
Anthropic upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet with the ability to use your computer, looking at your screen, moving cursors, clicking and typing. The company also launched Claude 3.5 Haiku.
