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Scaled Cognition Lands $100M Series A to Scale Reliable Enterprise AI
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- July 2, 2026
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 1, 2026 — AI model lab Scaled Cognition announced it has raised $100 million in a Series A funding round led by Khosla Ventures. The company is focused on solving one of the biggest challenges in AI today: reliability. While AI systems have become remarkably capable, they remain prone to mistakes […]
Coinbase joins the rush to Chinese AI models as Western labs face a pricing stress test
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- June 28, 2026
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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is switching his company to Chinese AI models like GLM 5.2 and Kimi 2.7. An automated routing system picks the best model for each request based on task and price, and better caching pushed the hit rate from 5 to 60 percent. Coinbase has cut its AI spending in half even […]
Alibaba’s open-weight Qwen-Image-2.1 claims to beat closed models in image generation with just 7 billion parameters
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- September 20, 2026
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Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen-Image-2.1, an open-weight model that generates and edits images on powerful consumer GPUs, with support for transparency and up to ten reference images at once. Its research license bars commercial use, which requires a separate Qwen license. The article Alibaba’s open-weight Qwen-Image-2.1 claims to beat closed models in image generation […]
Figure Unveils Helix 2.5 With Zero-Shot Humanoid Generalization Across 30 Homes
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- September 18, 2026
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Insider Brief Figure introduced Helix 2.5, a neural network that enabled its humanoid robot to perform three whole-body household tasks across 30 unseen homes without collecting data or adapting the model in those environments. Figure said Index pretraining raised zero-shot success from 9% to 56%, while Helix 2.5 used half as much task-specific data as […]