AI

Microsoft is reportedly training its sales team to aggressively downplay competing AI products from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic, according to a Bloomberg report.

Amazon’s director of AGI autonomy, Bryan Silverthorn, revealed at VB Transform 2026 that the primary bottleneck for enterprise AI agent deployment is reliability, not capability.

A German research consortium has released Soofi S 30B-A3B, an open hybrid Mamba-Transformer Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) foundation model designed for German and English.

Thinking Machines, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, today released its first major language model, Inkling, under an Apache 2.0 open-source license.

In a dramatic response to a severe privacy backlash, xAI has open-sourced the entire Grok Build codebase under an Apache 2.0 license, just one day after its Grok CLI tool was found to upload entire directories—including SSH keys and password databases—to Google Cloud servers.