Quibim raises $50M to develop AI models for medical imaging

Posted on January 28, 2025 by Techme101

Quibim, a Spanish startup that’s developing foundational AI models for medical imaging spanning oncology, immunology, neurology, and metabolic disorders, has raised $50 million in a Series A round of funding. The cash injection comes as AI makes ever deeper inroads into healthcare, spanning everything from drug discovery to clinical trials. Quibim, for its part, is […]
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How DeepSeek Went From Stock Trader to A.I. Star

Posted on January 28, 2025 by Techme101

The little-known artificial intelligence firm has emphasized research, even as it emerged as the brainchild of a hedge fund.

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Why DeepSeek Could Change What Silicon Valley Believe About A.I.

Posted on January 28, 2025 by Techme101

A new A.I. model, released by a scrappy Chinese upstart, has rocked Silicon Valley and upended several fundamental assumptions about A.I. progress.

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Hugging Face makes it easier for devs to run AI models on third-party clouds

Posted on January 28, 2025 by Techme101

AI dev platform Hugging Face has partnered with third-party cloud vendors including SambaNova to launch Inference Providers, a feature designed to make it easier for devs on Hugging Face to run AI models using the infrastructure of their choice. Other partners involved with the new effort include Fal, Replicate, and Together AI. Hugging Face says […]
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Trump says Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok

Posted on January 28, 2025 by Techme101

President Donald Trump told reporters that Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok’s U.S. operations, Bloomberg reports. Although Trump didn’t elaborate, he stated that “there’s great interest in TikTok” and that there will be “a lot of people bidding on it.” Microsoft and Oracle were in the running to acquire the ByteDance-owned app back in […]
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Gov for U.S. government agencies

Posted on January 28, 2025 by Techme101

OpenAI on Tuesday announced the launch of ChatGPT for government agencies in the U.S.

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OpenAI launches ChatGPT plan for U.S. government agencies

Posted on January 28, 2025 by Techme101

In a week dominated by headlines about China’s growing AI competitiveness, OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Gov. The new version of the AI-powered chatbot platform is designed to provide U.S. government agencies an additional way to access the tech. ChatGPT Gov includes many of the capabilities found in OpenAI’s corporate-focused tier, ChatGPT Enterprise. Using the platform, agencies […]
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Alice&Bob raises $104M, says quantum computers based on cat qubits will be ready by 2030

Posted on January 28, 2025 by Techme101

Quantum computing remains something of a holy grail in the world of technology: it promises a huge leap in computing power, but only if someone can figure out how to square away the fault rates that prevent any scaling of the tech. Now, one of the more promising quantum startups in Europe is announcing a […]
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Microsoft’s underperformance has investors looking to cloud for growth

Posted on January 28, 2025 by Techme101

Microsoft’s stock has badly lagged its tech peers in the past year as cloud growth has been basically stagnant in recent quarters.

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UK raises cloud competition concerns, names Microsoft and Amazon as dominant players

Posted on January 28, 2025 by Techme101

Britain’s antitrust watchdog on Tuesday raised concerns over competition in the multi-billion-pound cloud computing market.

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