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Another day in late 2025, another impressive result from a Chinese company in open source artificial intelligence.Chinese social networking company Weibo's AI division recently released its open source VibeThinker-1.5B—a 1.5 billion parameter large language model (LLM) that is a fine-tuned variant of rival Chinese tech firm Alibaba's Qwen2.5-Math-1.5B. It's available now for free download and usage by researchers and enterprise developers—even for commercial purposes—under a permissive MIT License on Huggin
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Meta poached at least seven OpenAI researchers over summer. Here are some big names who left the startup in 2025. Read more ›
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While Gemini 3 is still making waves, Google's not taking the foot off the gas in terms of releasing new models.Yesterday, the company released FunctionGemma, a specialized 270-million parameter AI model designed to solve one of the most persistent bottlenecks in modern application development: reliability at the edge. Unlike general-purpose chatbots, FunctionGemma is engineered for a single, critical utility—translating natural language user commands into structured code that apps and devices... Read more ›
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While Silicon Valley debates whether artificial intelligence has become an overinflated bubble, Salesforce's enterprise AI platform quietly added 6,000 new customers in a single quarter — a 48% increase that executives say demonstrates a widening gap between speculative AI hype and deployed enterprise solutions generating measurable returns.Agentforce, the company's autonomous AI agent platform, now serves 18,500 enterprise customers, up from 12,500 the prior quarter. Those customers collectively run more t Read more ›
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2025 was supposed to be the year of the AI agent, right? Not quite, acknowledge Google Cloud and Replit — two big players in the AI agent space and partners in the "vibe coding" movement — at a recent VB Impact Series event.Even as they build out agentic tools themselves, leaders from the two companies say the capabilities aren’t quite there yet. This constrained reality comes down to struggles with... Read more ›
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Tony Stoyanov is CTO and co-founder of EliseAIIn the 2010s, tech companies chased staff-level specialists: Backend engineers, data scientists, system architects. That model worked when technology evolved slowly. Specialists knew their craft, could deliver quickly and built careers on predictable foundations like cloud infrastructure or the latest JS frameworkThen AI went mainstream.The pace of change has exploded. New technologies appear and mature in less than a year. You can’t hire... Read more ›
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It's refreshing when a leading AI company states the obvious. In a detailed post on hardening ChatGPT Atlas against prompt injection, OpenAI acknowledged what security practitioners have known for years: "Prompt injection, much like scams and social engineering on the web, is unlikely to ever be fully 'solved.'"What’s new isn’t the risk — it’s the admission. OpenAI, the company deploying one of the most widely used AI agents, confirmed publicly... Read more ›
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João Freitas is GM and VP of engineering for AI and automation at PagerDutyAs AI use continues to evolve in large organizations, leaders are increasingly seeking the next development that will yield major ROI. The latest wave of this ongoing trend is the adoption of AI agents. However, as with any new technology, organizations must ensure they adopt AI agents in a responsible way that allows them to facilitate both... Read more ›
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Presented by EdgeVerveArtificial intelligence (AI) has long promised to change the way enterprises operate. For years, the focus was on assistants, systems that could surface information, summarize documents, or streamline repetitive tasks. While valuable, these technological assistants were reactive: they waited for human prompts and provided limited support within narrow boundaries.Today, a new chapter is unfolding. Agentic AI, whose systems are capable of autonomous decision-making and multi-step orchest Read more ›
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