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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Go tier and starts testing ads → OpenAI is starting to test ads in the free and the newly introduced ChatGPT Go ($8/month) tiers. Businesses are watching closely to see if ads in ChatGPT could become a powerful new distribution channel for reaching AI users at scale. Read more here →
Apple develops AI wearable pin rivaling OpenAI hardware plans → Apple is working on an AI-powered pin the size of an AirTag that could launch as early as next year. The device joins a growing race in always-on wearable AI amid OpenAI's parallel efforts. Read more here →
xAI activates Colossus 2 as first gigawatt-scale training cluster → xAI has brought its Colossus 2 supercomputer online, achieving the world's first gigawatt-scale coherent AI training cluster. Upgrades to 1.5 gigawatts are targeted for April, accelerating Grok development at unprecedented speed. Read more here →
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Inferact raises $150M seed → Andreessen Horowitz leads the round behind the core maintainers of vLLM, backing a push to turn the dominant open-source inference stack into a next-generation commercial engine for diverse AI workloads and hardware. Read more here →
Hassabis and Amodei debate post-AGI → Demis Hassabis and Dario Amodei clash at the World Economic Forum over what comes after AGI, from recursive self-improvement to governance and economic power. See more here →
Alibaba open-sources Qwen3-TTS family for advanced voice synthesis → Qwen releases Qwen3-TTS as a fully open-source text-to-speech suite supporting free-form voice design, cloning, and 10 languages. The models deliver state-of-the-art quality with efficient 12Hz tokenization and full fine-tuning support. Read more here →
Google adds free full-length SAT practice exams to Gemini app → Gemini now offers on-demand, full-length SAT practice tests developed with The Princeton Review. Users can start by saying "I want to take a practice SAT test" for immediate scoring and targeted feedback at no cost. Read more here →
Ryan Hoover launches Fast Round to connect founders with investors → Product Hunt founder Ryan Hoover introduces Fast Round, a tool that scans who follows your X account among investors and simplifies sending outreach DMs to accelerate fundraising. Read more here →
AirLLM runs 70B LLMs on 4GB GPUs via layer-by-layer inference → AirLLM introduces memory-efficient inference that processes large models one layer at a time, enabling 70 billion parameter models on 4GB VRAM and even 405B on 8GB. Read more here →
