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Passionfroot, a German startup building a marketplace connecting B2B creators with brands, announced on Wednesday it has raised $15 million in a Series A funding round led by Insight Partners.

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Microsoft AI released two new in-house models into public preview on Wednesday — MAI-Image-2.5-Pro, its highest-fidelity image generator to date, and MAI-Voice-2-Flash, a speech model built for high-volume enterprise workloads — while publishing production data that amounts to the company's most aggressive argument yet that it can power its own products without leaning on OpenAI's frontier models.

Google is developing a specialized artificial intelligence chip, codenamed Frozen v2, designed exclusively to run its Gemini model with significantly greater efficiency.

Nvidia's grip on the AI chip market is loosening as major customers diversify their suppliers.