ScaleOps’ new AI Infra Product slashes GPU costs for self-hosted enterprise LLMs by 50% for early adopters
ScaleOps has expanded its cloud resource management platform with a new product aimed at enterprises operating self-hosted large language models (LLMs) and GPU-based AI applications. The AI Infra Product announced today, extends the company’s existing automation capabilities to address a growing need for efficient GPU utilization, predictable performance, and reduced operational burden in large-scale AI […]
AI agent evaluation replaces data labeling as the critical path to production deployment
As LLMs have continued to improve, there has been some discussion in the industry about the continued need for standalone data labeling tools, as LLMs are increasingly able to work with all types of data. HumanSignal, the lead commercial vendor behind the open-source Label Studio program, has a different view. Rather than seeing less demand […]
Tome’s founders ditch viral presentation app with 20M users to build AI-native CRM Lightfield
Lightfield, a customer relationship management platform built entirely around artificial intelligence, officially launched to the public this week after a year of quiet development — a bold pivot by a startup that once had 20 million users and $43 million in the bank building something completely different. The San Francisco-based company is positioning itself as […]
Ai2’s Olmo 3 family challenges Qwen and Llama with efficient, open reasoning and customization
The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) hopes to take advantage of an increased demand for customized models and enterprises seeking more transparency from AI models with its latest release. Ai2 made the latest addition to its Olmo family of large language models available to organizations, continuing to focus on openness and customization. Olmo 3 has […]
OpenAI debuts GPT‑5.1-Codex-Max coding model and it already completed a 24-hour task internally
OpenAI has introduced GPT‑5.1-Codex-Max, a new frontier agentic coding model now available in its Codex developer environment. The release marks a significant step forward in AI-assisted software engineering, offering improved long-horizon reasoning, efficiency, and real-time interactive capabilities. GPT‑5.1-Codex-Max will now replace GPT‑5.1-Codex as the default model across Codex-integrated surfaces. The new model is designed to […]
The Google Search of AI agents? Fetch launches ASI:One and Business tier for new era of non-human web
Fetch AI, a startup founded and led by former DeepMind founding investor, Humayun Sheikh, on Wednesday announced the release of three interconnected products designed to provide the trust, coordination, and interoperability needed for large-scale AI agent ecosystems. The launch includes ASI:One, a personal-AI orchestration platform; Fetch Business, a verification and discovery portal for brand agents; […]
OpenCV founders launch AI video startup to take on OpenAI and Google
A new artificial intelligence startup founded by the creators of the world’s most widely used computer vision library has emerged from stealth with technology that generates realistic human-centric videos up to five minutes long — a dramatic leap beyond the capabilities of rivals including OpenAI’s Sora and Google’s Veo. CraftStory, which launched Tuesday with $2 […]
VentureBeat launches “Beyond the Pilot” — a new podcast series exploring how enterprise AI gets real
Premiering November 19 VentureBeat is proud to announce the launch of its new flagship podcast, Beyond the Pilot: Enterprise AI in Action, premiering November 19 and brought to you by our anchor sponsor, Outshift by Cisco. Enterprise AI has reached a new inflection point: workloads are going live, and the constraints are getting real. The […]
Musk’s xAI launches Grok 4.1 with lower hallucination rate on the web and apps — no API access (for now)
In what appeared to be a bid to soak up some of Google’s limelight prior to the launch of its new Gemini 3 flagship AI model — now recorded as the most powerful LLM in the world by multiple independent evaluators — Elon Musk’s rival AI startup xAI last night unveiled its newest large language […]
Google unveils Gemini 3 claiming the lead in math, science, multimodal and agentic AI benchmarks
After more than a month of rumors and feverish speculation — including Polymarket wagering on the release date — Google today unveiled Gemini 3, its newest proprietary frontier model family and the company’s most comprehensive AI release since the Gemini line debuted in 2023. The models are proprietary (closed-source), available exclusively through Google products, developer […]