Daily AI Briefing
The 6 top stories of the 50 AIBriefs curated that day.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, replacing Opus 4.8 as the Opus-tier flagship with unchanged pricing at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens. Perplexity evaluated it against six models on WANDR, finding it outperformed all but Fable 5 while being 57% cheaper.
GenBio AI, the startup co-founded by Nobel laureate David Baker, unveiled AIDO Cell — a foundation model that predicts how a cell's molecular machinery (DNA, RNA, proteins, regulatory networks) behaves. A Nature Medicine perspective frames the broader AIDO vision: simulating biology from molecules to whole organisms.
Google's SAM (Sovereign Agent Mesh) is an Apache-2.0 zero-config, zero-trust P2P networking project for autonomous AI agents. It lets agents running on cloud servers, on-prem datacenters, laptops, Raspberry Pis, and Android devices share tools. The name is unrelated to Segment Anything.
Thinking Machines, the AI lab founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, is in talks to raise $1 billion at a valuation of at least $40 billion, with Accel reportedly leading. Its annual revenue run rate exceeds $100 million.
Etched raised $700M at a $21B valuation, led by Jane Street, after the quant fund tested and bought its AI hardware. The startup was valued at $10.3B in July and $5B in December.
Marvell shares jumped 6% after an AI chip deal that lets Google buy up to $12.2 billion in Marvell stock. Google and competitors are pursuing custom chips to improve efficiency and reduce reliance on Nvidia.
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