OpenAI keeps making moves

kept by eddie apr 28

OpenAI secures new partnerships with Microsoft and Qualcomm, and inks a deal with Customers Bank, signaling continued competitive moves in AI.

Anthropic invests $100 million into the Claude Partner Network
Anthropic commits $100 million to the Claude Partner Network, offering training, technical support, and market development to partners helping enterprises adopt Claude.
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Run AI Models Locally: A New Laptop Era Begins - IEEE Spectrum
The push to run AI models locally is driving the biggest change in laptop architecture in decades, with new NPUs, unified memory, and Microsoft's AI Foundry.
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Exclusive | SpaceX Showed Investors Prototype of Elon Musk’s New AI Device - WSJ
SpaceX showed investors a slim, handset-like AI prototype running xAI's software on a Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset, though the project is early-stage and may not be produced.
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Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI
A jury dismissed Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman, finding he filed too late under the statute of limitations.
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Can AI companies become profitable?
Epoch AI's analysis of GPT-5 finds that while it had a 30% gross margin, it failed to recoup R&D costs during its four-month lifecycle, making AI models currently unprofitable.
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