Sara Hooker, a former vice president of AI research at Cohere and former Google Brain researcher, has quietly launched a new startup called Adaption Labs with fellow AI veteran Sudip Roy. The company aims to build artificial‑intelligence systems that continuously adapt and learn from real‑world experience, arguing that the industry’s focus on ever‑larger language models is reaching diminishing returns. Hooker’s critique of the "scaling" approach echoes a growing chorus of researchers who see adaptive learning as a more efficient path forward. Adaption Labs has secured seed funding and plans to hire globally while opening a San Francisco office. Leia mais →

Enterprise AI model maker Cohere announced a $100 million extension to its recent financing, pushing its valuation to $7 billion. The company also unveiled a partnership with AMD, enabling its Command-family models to run on AMD Instinct GPUs while maintaining support for Nvidia hardware. Co‑founder Aidan Gomez, noted for his role in the original transformer paper, highlighted the focus on enterprise customers seeking AI sovereignty. New investors include the Business Development Bank of Canada and Nexxus Capital Management. The announcement was made at a TechCrunch event in San Francisco. Leia mais →

Tavily, the startup that connects AI agents to the web, announced a $25 million funding round led by Insight Partners. The investment, which includes a $20 million Series A, brings the company’s total financing to $25 million. Founded by data scientist Rotem Weiss, Tavily evolved from the open‑source GPT Researcher project and now serves enterprise clients such as Groq, Cohere, MongoDB, and Writer. The firm aims to enable AI agents across industries to safely retrieve real‑time information while adhering to governance, risk, and compliance standards. Competitors include Exa, Firecrawl, OpenAI, and Perplexity. Leia mais →

Cohere unveiled North, an AI agent platform designed to run on private infrastructure and keep enterprise data behind firewalls. The solution can operate on on‑premise hardware, hybrid clouds, VPCs or air‑gapped environments, using as few as two GPUs. North incorporates granular access controls, autonomy policies, continuous red‑team testing and third‑party security audits, and it complies with GDPR, SOC‑2 and ISO 27001. Built on Cohere’s Command and Compass technologies, the platform offers chat, search and document creation capabilities while providing citation trails for auditability. Early pilots include major firms such as RBC, Dell and LG. Leia mais →