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The Browser Company releases Dia, its AI-first browser
Plus Meta officially acquires 49% of Scale AI for $15Bn
Today’s Highlights:
📰 News: The Browser Company releases Dia, its AI-first browser + Mistral launches new reasoning models and an Nvidia-powered European AI infrastructure platform
💰 Funding: Meta officially acquires 49% of Scale AI for ~$15Bn to create new Superintelligence lab
⚡️ Top News Stories:
1. The Browser Company has launched Dia, an AI-first Chromium-based browser now in beta, which integrates an intelligent chatbot directly into the browsing experience to handle searches, file summaries, tab queries, and personalized tasks.
2. Windsurf launched the Windsurf Browser, an AI-integrated browser that enhances AI’s ability to understand and collaborate with developers by capturing browser interactions as part of a unified cross-surface timeline, improving the flow and context awareness of its AI assistant, Cascade.
3. Mistral AI has launched Mistral Compute, an Nvidia-powered European AI infrastructure platform, alongside new Magistral reasoning models, offering transparent, fast logical reasoning and multimodal understanding — part of a strategic push to strengthen Europe’s AI sovereignty and sustainability leadership.
4. OpenAI launched o3-pro, its most capable AI reasoning model yet, building on its earlier o3 model and designed for step-by-step problem solving in domains such as physics, math, coding, and writing, though with some current limitations like no image generation and slower responses.
5. Meta has unveiled V-JEPA 2, a new AI world model trained on over a million hours of video to help AI agents and robots understand physical dynamics and perform real-world tasks with commonsense reasoning.
6. Meta has added new AI-powered video editing tools to its Meta AI app and website, enabling users to creatively alter short videos with preset prompts for style, costumes, and backgrounds, and share them across Facebook and Instagram.
7. The UK government is rolling out Extract, an AI-powered system built with Google’s Gemini model, which can convert complex old planning documents into accurate digital data in seconds—dramatically speeding up council decision-making for housing and infrastructure projects.
8. Sam Altman’s startup Tools for Humanity is expanding its controversial eye-scanning Orb devices to the UK, where users can verify their humanity via iris scans to create a World ID and receive cryptocurrency, amid ongoing global privacy concerns and regulatory scrutiny.
9. Disney and Universal are suing AI company Midjourney for allegedly using their copyrighted characters—like Darth Vader and Homer Simpson—to train its art-generating models without permission, seeking damages and a court order to block further infringement.
10. In an essay titled “The Gentle Singularity,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman predicts that by 2026, AI models will be able to generate novel scientific insights, with OpenAI and competitors like Google and Anthropic racing to develop systems that could automate parts of the scientific process and revolutionize fields from drug discovery to materials science—though experts caution this goal remains elusive.
11. In a surprising move, OpenAI has struck a cloud computing deal with rival Google, allowing it to run parts of its AI infrastructure on Google Cloud—a partnership that underscores how enormous computing demands are forcing competitive AI labs to collaborate, even as ChatGPT challenges Google’s search business.
💰 Top Funding News:
1. Meta is making a nearly $15Bn bet by taking a 49% stake in Scale AI and bringing CEO Alexandr Wang in to help lead a new “superintelligence” lab, aiming to reinvigorate its AI efforts with better training data and leadership after recent model and talent setbacks.
2. Multiverse Computing, which uses quantum-inspired AI compression technology to shrink LLms by up to 95% while maintaining performance, raised a $215M Series B led by Bullhound Capital.
3. Glean, which uses AI to transform enterprise knowledge access and drive agentic AI workflows, raised a $150M Series F led by Wellington Management with participation from Khosla Ventures, Bicycle Capital, Geodesic Capital, Archerman Capital, and existing investors including Altimeter, Capital One Ventures, Citi, Coatue, DST Global, General Catalyst, ICONIQ, IVP, Kleiner Perkins, Latitude Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures, and Sequoia Capital.
4. Coco Robotics, which applies AI to power an autonomous delivery fleet transforming urban logistics, raised an $80M strategic round led by Sam and Max Altman, Pelion, Outlander, and SNR.
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