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AI note-taking app Granola raises $43 million to create a new hub for personal enterprise knowledge management

Image Credit: Granola AI-powered note-taking tool Granola is gaining momentum. The startup has seen a surge in users since launching a year ago, largely thanks to VCs and word-of-mouth among its founders, but a major driving factor seems to be people expanding its use to...

AI Agent Platform Clay Gets Investment from Sequoia Capital, Valued at $1.5 Billion

AI Agent platform Clay has announced on its website that it has received an employee stock buyback offer led by Sequoia Capital, valued at $1.5 billion. The stock buyback program is valued higher than Clay's $1.25 billion last month, with a total buyback amount of $20 million. Primarily for all employees who have vested...

Google's Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview is the best on the web!

On the eve of I/O, Google bursts out with Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview Last night, Google announced the launch of Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview (I/O edition) ahead of the I/O conference. As its flagship Gemini 2.5 ...

OpenAI Leads Investment in AI Programming Tool Cursor, Valuation Triples to $9 Billion in Six Months

Anysphere, the company that develops the AI programming tool Cursor, has closed a new round of funding that has seen its valuation more than triple from the start of the year to about $9 billion, showing once again that Silicon Valley AI apps startups are attracting a steady stream of funding. According to people familiar with the matter, the ...

Ali's new-generation Qwen3 model released: surpasses DeepSeek R1 on top of the open-source list

While everyone was guessing who would come first, DeepSeek V4 or R2 or Qwen3, Qwen3 was released. In the early morning of April 29, Alibaba open-sourced a new generation of Tongyi Qianqian Qwen3 series models, covering 8 different sizes. Among them, the flagship model Qwen3 2...

Understanding the MCP protocol in one article: making AI understand your data better

What is MCP? What is MCP Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a communication protocol designed for machine learning model services to efficiently manage contextual information during model inference (e.g., session state, environment...

Endor Labs Raises $93 Million in Series B Funding as AI Code Security Track Becomes New Battleground

Endor Labs, which builds tools to scan AI-generated code for vulnerabilities, announced on April 23 that it had closed a $93 million Series B round of funding (totaling $163 million) led by DFJ Growth, with Salesforce Ventures and other...

Google launches Gemini 2.5 Flash AI model: superior performance, lower cost

Google Inc. made an announcement on April 17, announcing the availability of the Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview preview AI model in Google AI Studio and Vertex AI in the form of the Gemini API...

xAI Launches Grok Studio Feature: AI-Editable Creation of Documents, Code, Reports and More

April 16, 2025 Grok has officially announced the release of the first version of Grok Studio, a revolutionary AI programming tool. As the latest product from xAI, Grok Studio not only supports code execution, but also integrates...

OpenAI releases a new series of models for GPT-4.1! Comprehensively outperforms GPT-4o Smarter and cheaper!

At 1am today, OpenAI conducted a technical live stream to release its latest model, GPT-4.1. In addition to GPT-4.1, there are two other models, GPT 4.1-Mini and GPT 4.1-Nano, which have been developed in the areas of multimodal processing, code capability, instruction adherence, and into...