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xAI releases Grok 4.3, featuring ‘always-on reasoning’, 1M token pop-up and low API price, and launches voice cloning suite called Custom Voices (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

By Stacey D. WallsMay 1, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: OpenAI Missed User Growth, Musk vs. Altman, Prediction Market Ban The Big Technology Podcast takes…

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Xiaomi open sources MiMo-V2.5 and MiMo-V2.5-Pro under the MIT license, claiming that both models are among the most efficient available for “claw” agent tasks (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 27, 2026

Featured Podcasts Cheeky pint: Post-smartphone, with Snap CEO Evan Spiegel Stripe co-founder John Collison interviews founders, builders and executives over…

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GPT-5.5 is priced at $5/1 million input tokens and $30/1 million output tokens, double the price of GPT-5.4; GPT-5.5 Pro costs $30/1 million input tokens and $180/1 million output tokens (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 23, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: How Anthropic’s product team is growing faster than anyone else | Cat Wu (Product Manager, Claude…

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Z.ai releases GLM-5.1, a 754B parameter model that it says outperforms GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 on SWE-bench Pro, available under MIT license (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 7, 2026

Featured Podcasts Cheeky pint: The history and future of AI at Google, with Sundar Pichai Stripe co-founder John Collison interviews…

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MiniMax launches M2.7, proprietary software "self-evolving" LLM that the company used to create, monitor and optimize the model’s own reinforcement learning harnesses (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 20, 2026

Carl Franzen / BusinessBeat: MiniMax launches M2.7, a proprietary “self-evolving” LLM that the company has used to create, monitor and…

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Workday announces the departure of its CEO Carl Eschenbach and his replacement by the company’s co-founder, Aneel Bhusri, effective immediately; WDAY falls more than 8% (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 9, 2026

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Workday announces the departure of its CEO Carl Eschenbach and his replacement by the company’s co-founder,…

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Samsung researcher demonstrates the Tiny Recursion Model, a 7 million parameter model capable of outperforming 10,000 times larger LLMs like o3-mini on specific problems (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 9, 2025

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: Anthropic Product Manager: Why AI Model Development is Accelerating – With Mike Krieger The Big…

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The Huawei Zurich laboratory unveils Sinq, an open source quantification method which, according to her, can reduce the use of LLM memory from 60 to 70% without significant loss of quality (Carl Franzen / Venturebeat)

By Stacey D. WallsOctober 4, 2025

Carl Franzen / Venture:: Zurich Lab of Huawei reveals Sinq, an open source quantification method which, according to her, can…

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Alibaba publishes its new QWEN3-235B-A22B-Instruct-257 model on the face of the reasoning, precision and multilingual understanding of Qwen 3 (Carl Franzen / Venturebeat)

By Stacey D. WallsJuly 23, 2025

Carl Franzen / Venture:: Alibaba publishes her new QWEN3-235B-A22B-Instruct-257 model on the face of the face, improving the reasoning, precision…

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Midjourney Lance V1, its first model of AI videos generation, allowing subscribers to animate images via its website; Video work will cost ~ 8x more than image work (Carl Franzen / Venturebeat)

By Stacey D. WallsJune 18, 2025

Carl Franzen / Venture:: Midjourney Lance V1, its first model of AI videos generation, allowing subscribers to animate images via…

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Bitcoin fell as much as 7% over 24 hours to fall below $67,000 on Tuesday for the first time since April, following Strategy’s first BTC sale since 2022; MSTR fell 9% (Bloomberg)

a CoreWeave-linked data center raised $900 million via five-year junk bonds, priced at par for a 7.5% yield, as the industry increasingly shifts to high-yield bonds (Gowri Gurumurthy/Bloomberg)

Microsoft launches MAI-Thinking-1, its first advanced reasoning model, trained “from scratch on clean data, without distillation of third-party models” (Jay Peters/The Verge)

Internal position: Guy Rosen, Meta’s chief information security officer who previously oversaw Meta’s election integrity work, will leave in the coming months (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

Meta Expands Teen Account Safety Features to Limit Harmful Content on Instagram, Facebook and Messenger, including Nutrition, Weightlifting and Anxiety (Eli Tan/New York Times)

Browsing: Carl

xAI releases Grok 4.3, featuring ‘always-on reasoning’, 1M token pop-up and low API price, and launches voice cloning suite called Custom Voices (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Xiaomi open sources MiMo-V2.5 and MiMo-V2.5-Pro under the MIT license, claiming that both models are among the most efficient available for “claw” agent tasks (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

GPT-5.5 is priced at $5/1 million input tokens and $30/1 million output tokens, double the price of GPT-5.4; GPT-5.5 Pro costs $30/1 million input tokens and $180/1 million output tokens (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Z.ai releases GLM-5.1, a 754B parameter model that it says outperforms GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.6 on SWE-bench Pro, available under MIT license (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

MiniMax launches M2.7, proprietary software "self-evolving" LLM that the company used to create, monitor and optimize the model’s own reinforcement learning harnesses (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

Workday announces the departure of its CEO Carl Eschenbach and his replacement by the company’s co-founder, Aneel Bhusri, effective immediately; WDAY falls more than 8% (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Samsung researcher demonstrates the Tiny Recursion Model, a 7 million parameter model capable of outperforming 10,000 times larger LLMs like o3-mini on specific problems (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

The Huawei Zurich laboratory unveils Sinq, an open source quantification method which, according to her, can reduce the use of LLM memory from 60 to 70% without significant loss of quality (Carl Franzen / Venturebeat)

Alibaba publishes its new QWEN3-235B-A22B-Instruct-257 model on the face of the reasoning, precision and multilingual understanding of Qwen 3 (Carl Franzen / Venturebeat)

Midjourney Lance V1, its first model of AI videos generation, allowing subscribers to animate images via its website; Video work will cost ~ 8x more than image work (Carl Franzen / Venturebeat)