OpenAI announced in early April 2025 that it is participating in a $43 million Series A funding round for New York-based Adaptive Security, marking the company's first investment in the cybersecurity sector. The funding, co-led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and the OpenAI Startup Fund, aims to develop defences
The performance of a large language model is significantly influenced by the quality of its prompt. While the importance of clear task specification is a long-standing principle in Natural Language Processing (NLP), it has become even more vital for contemporary LLMs, where minor variations in input can significantly impact accuracy
On 25 March 2025, Google officially announced the release of TxGemma, a collection of open models designed to improve the efficiency of therapeutic development. Based on Gemma 2, TxGemma is available in three sizes (2B, 9B, and 27B parameters) and has been specifically trained to understand and predict the properties
Saudi Arabia's Alinma Bank announced a partnership with IBM on 20 February 2025 to create an advanced API platform that enhances the bank's IT infrastructure and opens new revenue streams. The collaboration implements IBM's advanced hybrid cloud and AI integration technologies, aligning with Saudi
Alibaba unveiled Qwen3, a family of eight new AI models, on April 28, 2025, with its flagship 235 billion parameter Qwen3-235B-A22B model outperforming OpenAI's o1 and DeepSeek's R1 on several benchmarks, while approaching Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro. The models feature "hybrid reasoning&
On 9 April 2025, Anthropic announced its new premium subscription tier for its Claude AI assistant, named Max, positioning it as a direct competitor to OpenAI’s $200 ChatGPT Pro service. The Max subscription is available in two pricing tiers: $100 per month for five times the usage limit of
According to court filings released on 14 February 2025, Meta suspended licensing negotiations with book publishers in April 2023 after most publishers showed little interest or lacked the necessary rights to provide AI training data. The newly submitted documents in the Kadrey v. Meta Platforms case—a class action lawsuit
Anthropic's research team published a study in April 2025 revealing alarming results about reasoning AI models: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and DeepSeek R1 models failed to mention factors influencing their answers in their Chain-of-Thought reasoning 75% and 61% of the time respectively. Researchers embedded six different types of
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed at the TED2025 conference on 11 April 2025 that ChatGPT has reached 800 million weekly active users, representing approximately 10% of the world's population. The company's image generation feature launched on 25 March has driven extraordinary growth, with the platform gaining
The most fundamental component of any prompt is the instruction, which explicitly defines the task the model is expected to perform. A simple query might pose a question, but a well-crafted instruction provides a clear, actionable directive. This distinction is crucial; an instruction such as, “Summarise the following academic article
On 16 April 2025, Elon Musk-owned xAI officially announced Grok Studio, a new tool that enhances the Grok AI assistant with code execution functionality and Google Drive support. The new platform enables users to create documents, code, reports, and browser-based games in a split-screen interface, significantly boosting productivity and creativity.
On 16 April 2025, OpenAI officially launched Codex CLI, an open-source coding tool that runs in the terminal and transforms natural language instructions into executable code. The new tool integrates OpenAI's advanced language models, including o3 and o4-mini, with local coding and computing tasks, enabling developers to perform
