Keychain Secures $30M and Debuts AI Operating System for CPG Manufacturers

Keychain Secures $30M and Debuts AI Operating System for CPG Manufacturers

The next time you shop at a grocery store, you might want to thank this AI startup for keeping the shelves stocked with your favorite…

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Hugging Face: 5 Ways Enterprises Can Reduce AI Costs Without Compromising Performance

Hugging Face: 5 Ways Enterprises Can Reduce AI Costs Without Compromising Performance

Enterprises often believe AI models inherently need substantial computing power, leading them to seek out more resources.  Sasha Luccioni from Hugging Face suggests a shift…

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GEPA Enhances LLMs Without Expensive Reinforcement Learning

GEPA Enhances LLMs Without Expensive Reinforcement Learning

Researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, and Databricks have introduced a new AI optimization method called GEPA that significantly surpasses traditional reinforcement…

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Cohere: Canada's Leading AI Prospect

Cohere: Canada’s Leading AI Prospect

At 9:59 am ET on Thursday, the main story in Canadian tech was that domestic VC activity had fallen back to early 2020 COVID-19 levels.…

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Researcher Transforms OpenAI’s GPT-OSS-20B Model into a Less Aligned 'Base' Model with Greater Freedom

Researcher Transforms OpenAI’s GPT-OSS-20B Model into a Less Aligned ‘Base’ Model with Greater Freedom

Recently, OpenAI unveiled the powerful open weights AI large language model (LLM) family gpt-oss under the Apache 2.0 license. This marks their first open weights…

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"That 'Affordable' Open-Source AI Model Is Draining Your Compute Budget"

“That ‘Affordable’ Open-Source AI Model Is Draining Your Compute Budget”

A recent study by Nous Research highlights that open-source AI models require significantly more computational resources than their closed-source counterparts, which could affect their cost…

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GPT-5 Has Arrived, but True Agentic AI Infrastructure Isn’t Ready

GPT-5 Has Arrived, but True Agentic AI Infrastructure Isn’t Ready

Here’s an analogy: Freeways didn’t exist in the U.S. until after 1956, envisioned by President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s administration — yet super fast, powerful cars…

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Google Unveils Efficient Ultra-Small Open Source AI Model Gemma 3 270M for Smartphones

Google Unveils Efficient Ultra-Small Open Source AI Model Gemma 3 270M for Smartphones

As the name implies, this is a **270-million-parameter model**—much smaller than the 70 billion parameters of many state-of-the-art LLMs (parameters determine the model’s behavior). Google’s…

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Cohere Raises $500 Million at $6.8 Billion Valuation, Recruits Former Uber and Meta Executives

Cohere Raises $500 Million at $6.8 Billion Valuation, Recruits Former Uber and Meta Executives

Toronto-based AI scaleup Cohere has secured $500 million USD ($690 million CAD) in new funding and appointed two former execs from Meta and Uber to…

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Forward Deployed Engineers: Enabling AI in B2B and Assessing Their Role in SMBs

Forward Deployed Engineers: Enabling AI in B2B and Assessing Their Role in SMBs

The current economic landscape makes implementing AI in the B2B sphere challenging, and the most sought-after role in enterprises might be out of reach for…

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