Swiss-AI releases Apertus v1.5 model family

The round was co-led by Atreides Management, Mubadala Capital, and Valor Equity Partners, with Nvidia, Founders Fund, GIC, QIA, Radical Ventures, and TPG participating. Crusoe will fund its Abilene, Texas site used by OpenAI plus truck-transportable modular "Spark" AI factories.

The institute lists Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg, and Google's James Manyika as directors, with Legg as managing editor. Its first four essays cover AGI economic disruption, preserving readable model reasoning, human flourishing, and frontier-model evaluation.

YouTube video by Matthew Berman challenges viewers to distinguish real content from AI-generated images and video. Sponsored by Higgsfield, which offers an API key for AI image and video models with pay-per-generation pricing and no monthly subscription.

A social post claims at least six or seven Chinese AI labs aim to train models of 10 to 40 trillion parameters within two years. No lab names, funding figures, or corroborating reports accompany the claim.

Goyal, architect of India's instant-delivery model, argues the platforms he built under Eternal — Zomato and Blinkit — can harness AI for customers better than general AI models can. He is stepping away from day-to-day operations.