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Japan and Nvidia launch a national AI factory with 27,500 Rubin GPUs
Nvidia, Noetra and Japan METI unveiled the country first national AI infrastructure, a 140MW Vera Rubin factory pairing 13,750 Vera CPUs with 27,500 Rubin GPUs. It will train open multimodal models for agents, robotics and physical AI across manufacturing, logistics and healthcare.
read →Rime raises $24M to build enterprise ready speech to speech voice AI
Rime landed a $24M Series A led by M13 for its linguistics first conversational speech models, which already power roughly 100 million monthly calls for customers like Mayo Clinic, Upstart and Asurion. It also named former Meta audio research lead Rafael Valle as chief science officer.
read →Thinking Machines releases Inkling, its first open-weight model
Mira Murati's lab shipped Inkling, a 975B parameter mixture of experts model trained across text, image, audio and video, betting that enterprises will fine-tune adaptable open models rather than lean on one-size-fits-all frontier systems. It ships with calibrated, uncertainty-aware answers and adjustable thinking effort, tunable through the Tinker platform.
read →InstaLILY raises $60M and launches Lily, an AI forward deployed engineer
The New York startup closed a $60 million Series B led by Energize Capital, with Home Depot Ventures and United Rentals joining, and unveiled Lily, an agent that learns how a business works, builds the software it needs, and goes live in days. At one national distributor the software Lily built generated more than $200 million in new annual sales.
read →Indian AI coding startup Emergent becomes a unicorn with a $130M Series C
Emergent raised $130 million led by Creaegis at a $1.5 billion valuation, a fivefold jump in six months, as its no-code app-building platform reached a $120 million revenue run rate and more than 200,000 paying customers. Backers include Khosla Ventures, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Lightspeed and Y Combinator.
read →Cognition turns Windsurf into Devin Desktop, an IDE built around an agent manager
Cognition rebranded its Windsurf editor as Devin Desktop and made an Agent Command Center the default screen, a Kanban board of every local and cloud agent sorted by status. Devin is now one brand across the desktop editor, cloud agent, CLI and review surfaces, shipped as an over-the-air update with no migration.
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Caylent builds its own agent orchestrator and cuts a 2,600-hour migration to 220
Instead of buying a migration tool, Caylent built a multi-agent orchestrator on the Claude Agent SDK that runs inside the customer's own cloud and cut one engagement from 2,600 engineering hours to about 220.
Eve makes the buy-a-vertical-vendor case for small plaintiff law firms
Plaintiff firms with no in-house ML team buy their agents off the shelf, and Eve customers report large jumps in lead conversion, case value, and drafting speed.
Suzano puts a natural-language-to-SQL agent in front of 50,000 staff
A Brazilian pulp-and-paper maker built a Gemini agent that turns plain-language questions into SQL, which Google Cloud says cut query time by about 95 percent for 50,000 employees.
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MomMe, a lifestyle community, web & iOS
A full lifestyle community platform, web portal and native iOS app, taken end to end, with an AI moderation flow keeping the community safe at scale.
- MomMe web portal + iOS application
- Full lifestyle community with 3,000+ registered users
- AI moderation flow
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