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TechCrunch 1 month ago 42 ● 2 sources
Accel is reportedly in talks to lead a $1 billion funding round for Thinking Machines, an AI lab founded by Mira Murati. The reported terms include a valuation of at least $40 billion. If completed, the round would drop the company below a previously sought $50 billion valuation, while it continues building its AI platform and open-weight model Inkling.
TechCrunch 1 month ago 49
Abliteration.ai offers an online service that hosts open-weight AI models after removing their guardrails and refusals, letting users query them via web or API. A free test account let TechCrunch quickly query an abliterated version of Z.ai’s recently released GLM-5.3. The shift turns a widely available research practice into commercial, easy-to-access tooling for offensive cyber and biological harmful requests, raising safety and policy concerns while defenders argue it helps red teaming.
Ars Technica 1 month ago 16 ● 16 sources
Nvidia agreed to buy AI model platform Hugging Face for $13 billion. The deal price is $13 billion. The acquisition shifts Hugging Face’s ownership under Nvidia, aiming to accelerate the spread of open-weight models.
Trending Topics 1 month ago 33 ● 2 sources
Nvidia agreed to acquire Hugging Face to expand the infrastructure behind the open-model platform. Nvidia will pay $12,930,300,000. Hugging Face will remain open, keep its team and brand, and NVIDIA compute will not be required to build on or deploy through it, though the deal still needs formal completion and may face antitrust scrutiny.
Trending Topics 1 month ago 8 ● 2 sources
Meta rolled out Muse Spark 1.3 and evaluations placed it near the top for coding and agentic performance. Muse Spark 1.3 (xhigh) scored 61 on the Intelligence Index. Its progress mainly improves agentic/scientific reasoning and pricing, and whether open-weight 1.3 arrives could shift the open-weight rankings versus top labs.
Latent Space 1 month ago 10 ● 8 sources
Meta’s Muse Spark 1.3 was released, with community claims that it matches GPT-5.6-Sol on multiple evaluations and will ship open weights. The article cites a reported 90%+ pricing discount when users opt in to training. This adds an open-weight option and a much lower training cost for developers building agentic and coding workloads.
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23 October 2026
AI’s most persistent theme today wasn’t model performance—it was what happens after the demo. Forrester found only 15% of AI decision-makers saw earnings improve over the prior 12 months, a sign that deployments stall in the “valley of despair” where reviews, approvals, testing, security, and deployment still run on slow, human timelines. The fix, the argument goes, is less about faster prompts and more about redesigning the workflow around measurable revenue, efficiency, or risk outcomes, then tracking cost-per-result instead of hopeful pilot metrics.
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