xAI Co-Founder's River AI Raises $1.1B for Personal AI
River AI, a startup founded by former xAI leader Igor Babuschkin, has raised $1.1 billion to let users train and own their own AI models instead of renting access to closed ones.
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What Is Poolside? The AI Startup Behind the Laguna Coding Models
Poolside is a startup that builds AI models trained specifically to write and fix code, then gives the weights away for free. Here's who is behind it and how the models work.
Read more →Thinking Machines Lab Releases Inkling, an Open-Weight AI Model
Mira Murati's startup released Inkling, a 975-billion-parameter open-weight model built for developers to fine-tune and adapt, rather than to top leaderboards.
Read more →Ollama Raises $65M Series B, Reaches 8.9 Million Developers
Ollama, the open-source tool for running AI models locally, has raised $65 million in Series B funding, bringing total funding to $88 million as its developer base nears 9 million.
Read more →Together AI Raises $800M to Scale Open-Source AI Infrastructure
Together AI closed an $800 million Series C led by Aramco Ventures, more than doubling its valuation to $8.3 billion as industry-wide use of open AI models has tripled over the past year.
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