Articles by Ellie Ramirez-Camara
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AI Highlights Review: July 23 – August 8
OpenAI's very busy week, from its funding round to its model launches; Clay's $100M Series C; Lovable's new unicorn status; Latent Labs' new no-code web interface; Google DeepMind's Aeneas; FuriosaAI's new partnership with LG AI Research; and more
Aug 8, 2025
AI Highlights Review: June 27 – July 7
Apple reportedly considering third-party AI technologies to power the new Siri; Clio acquired vLex; Tech companies score two victories in copyright infringement rulings; Synthflow AI's Series A; Abridge's Series E; Harvey's $300M Series E; and more.
Jul 7, 2025
AI Highlights Review: June 9-23
Meta's controversial partial acquisition of Scale AI, Microsoft's Sora-powered video generator, Moments Lab's Series B, Anysphere's third funding round, Multiverse Computing's Series B, a deep learning-assisted painting restoration technique, and more.
Jun 23, 2025
AI Highlights Review: March 13–24
Highlights from the Nvidia GTC 2025 keynote, OpenAI's new tools for building agents, Gleamer's recent acquisitions, and OpenAI's decision to invest in CoreWeave as tensions with Microsoft continue to rise.
Mar 25, 2025
AI Highlights Review: March 5–12
Investors are betting big on AI-powered agents for coding; Anthropic's Series E; Cohere for AI released Aya Vision; Scrunch AI wants to optimize businesses' online presence for AI; Mistral launched a powerful OCR API; Coreweave acquired Weights & Biases; and more.
Mar 13, 2025
Weekly AI Highlights Review: December 17–25
Databricks, Decart, Perplexity, and Anysphere all raised new funding; Google gave no breaks to OpenAI and launched a reasoning model and Veo 2; Grammarly acquired Coda; GitHub Copilot introduced a new free tier; Instagram is planning to launch Movie Gen-powered features; and more.
Dec 25, 2024
Weekly AI Highlights Review: December 10–17
Google's advances in agentic AI and the Gemini 2.0 Flash launch; two startups working on transformer-based models alternatives closed funding rounds; Claude 3.5 Haiku is generally available; Reddit introduced its conversational AI; and more.
Dec 17, 2024
Weekly AI Highlights Review: December 4–10
AWS re:Invent 2024 coverage; World Labs previewed its first world model; Google DeepMind previewed Genie 2; Meta released Llama 3.3 70B; xAI raised $6B; Microsoft launched Copilot Vision; Nebius raised $700M; and more.
Dec 10, 2024
This week in AI: June 2–8
NVIDIA, OpenAI, and Microsoft are under investigation by US authorities; NVIDIA, Intel, and AMD revealed their product roadmaps at Computex 2024; Storyblok raised $80M; Raspberry Pi launched an AI Kit; CoreWeave will expand into Europe; Stability AI launched a sound effects generator; and much more.
Jun 10, 2024
This Week in AI: May 27–June 2
OpenAI made a lot of announcements and sparked many discussions; AI voice generators are scarily easy to manipulate into producing fake messages by politicians; xAI raised $6B; Mistral AI launched Codestral; Claude 3 can use tools now; Microsoft Copilot is on Telegram; and more.
Jun 4, 2024
This Week in AI: May 20–26
The AI Act got its final approval; The AISI found LLMs are vulnerable to simple jailbreaking attacks; Slack opted its customers into AI training; Scale closed a Series F to address the potential AI data shortage; Pinecone serverless is now on AWS; Neuralink will implant a second device; and more.
May 27, 2024
The open-source LLM ecosystem flourished in 2023
ChatGPT's coming to existence will go down into the history books as the catalyst for the LLM race that dominated 2023. Fortunately, ChatGPT also ushered in the creation of the open-source ecosystem, which has given us powerful yet compact LLMs and shows no signs of stopping.
Jan 2, 2024