Artificial General Intelligence

Report: Half of OpenAI’s Pending $40 Billion Funding Round Depends on Restructuring
Report: Half of OpenAI’s Pending $40 Billion Funding Round Depends on Restructuring
March 31, 2025  |  artificial intelligence

Twenty billion dollars in funding is reportedly riding on OpenAI’s efforts to restructure into an independent for-profit company. OpenAI is finalizing a $40 billion funding...

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Reflection AI Raises $130 Million to Build Autonomous Coding Systems
Reflection AI Raises $130 Million to Build Autonomous Coding Systems
March 07, 2025  |  Investments

Artificial intelligence (AI) startup Reflection AI emerged from stealth Friday (March 7), saying it is focused on building autonomous coding systems. “At Reflection, we’re building superintelligent...

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Google Co-Founder Pushes AI Team to Work 60-Hour Weeks
Google Co-Founder Pushes AI Team to Work 60-Hour Weeks
March 02, 2025  |  Google

Google’s co-founder has reportedly urged the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) teams to “turbocharge” their work. Sergey Brin, who stepped down as Google’s president in 2019...

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Alibaba Ramps Up AI Spending in Pursuit of AGI
Alibaba Ramps Up AI Spending in Pursuit of AGI
February 20, 2025  |  Earnings

In the next three years, Alibaba will spend more on artificial intelligence (AI) than it has in the last decade. AI played a key role...

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Musk’s Grok 3 Takes Aim at Perplexity, OpenAI
Musk’s Grok 3 Takes Aim at Perplexity, OpenAI
February 19, 2025  |  artificial intelligence

The artificial intelligence (AI) race continues to heat up with Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, unveiling the latest version of its AI model, Grok 3....

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Google DeepMind CEO: AI-Designed Drugs Coming to Clinical Trials in 2025
Google DeepMind CEO: AI-Designed Drugs Coming to Clinical Trials in 2025
January 21, 2025  |  artificial intelligence

Nobel laureate and Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said Tuesday (Jan. 21) that he expects to see pharmaceutical drugs designed by artificial intelligence (AI) to...

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What Is Artificial General Intelligence and Why It Matters to Business
What Is Artificial General Intelligence and Why It Matters to Business
January 13, 2025  |  artificial intelligence

Artificial general intelligence (AGI) represents what many consider the Holy Grail of AI: machines that can understand, learn and apply knowledge across different situations and...

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Meta Chief AI Scientist Slams Quest for Human-Level Intelligence
Meta Chief AI Scientist Slams Quest for Human-Level Intelligence
January 08, 2025  |  artificial intelligence

Meta’s Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun on Wednesday (Jan. 8) criticized prevailing definitions of artificial general intelligence (AGI), arguing that continued scaling of text-based large...

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Move Over GenAI. Google Says Get Ready for GenWorld
Move Over GenAI. Google Says Get Ready for GenWorld
January 06, 2025  |  artificial intelligence

Google DeepMind announced Monday (Jan. 6) that it is creating a new team to work on “massive” generative models that would “simulate the world.” These...

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