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Anthropic told investors on Wednesday its quarterly revenue rose as it prepared for an IPO. Third-quarter revenue was $16.8bn, and it reported that distillation accounted for 5% to 7% of revenue before being cut back materially in the third quarter. The change reduces the role and spending tied to distillation from other labs, shifting the revenue mix ahead of the IPO.
Apertus released its Apertus 1.5 models, extending the prior 8B and 70B Aptetus 1.0 generation with image/audio understanding, an optional thinking mode, longer context, improved instruction-following, and better tool use. The updated 8B and 70B weights were posted to Hugging Face on July 24, 2026. The release adds multimodal token-based processing, a 262,144-token context window, and new post-training/evaluation materials that improve reasoning, coding, and multimodal document/chart performance.
Ricursive Intelligence introduced an AI system that designs AI chips, iterates on results, and aims to speed up and automate chip design to address the compute shortage. The founders said demand for compute will rise by at least 10,000x within five years. Their focus shifts from human-driven chip partitioning to AI-optimized full-chip layouts, with hopes of enabling custom chip designs faster and with higher energy efficiency.
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