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[News] AI Demo Jam: Where Innovation Meets Action Join AI Demo Jam on March 20, hosted by Dnipro VC & Data Phoenix! Experience live AI demos, expert talks, and networking with founders, investors, and innovators. No slides—just real AI in action. Don’t miss this chance to connect and explore the future of AI! https://dataphoenix.info/ai-demo-jam-where-innovation-meets-action/

[News] INFRA@GTC Networking Reception During NVIDIA GTC Join us at INFRA@GTC, an exclusive networking reception by Ignite! Meet AI infrastructure leaders, executives, and investors over curated cocktails, interactive demos, and discussions shaping the future of AI. Don't miss this opportunity to connect and collaborate! https://dataphoenix.info/infra-gtc-networking-reception-during-nvidia-gtc/

[News] Gleamer adds AI-assisted MRI diagnosis to its portfolio after acquiring Pixyl and Caerus Medical Gleamer recently acquired Pixyl and Caerus Medical to expand its portfolio to include neural and lumbar MRI scan analysis, furthering its goal of developing specialized AI tools for various radiology diagnostics tasks. https://dataphoenix.info/gleamer-adds-ai-assisted-mri-diagnosis-to-its-portfolio-after-acquiring-pixyl-and-caerus-medical/

[News] OpenAI to invest billions in CoreWeave as tensions with Microsoft continue growing CoreWeave and OpenAI announced a strategic partnership to provide the latter with even more AI infrastructure. OpenAI has committed up to $11.9 billion to be disbursed across five years in exchange for $350 million in shares. https://dataphoenix.info/openai-to-invest-billions-in-coreweave-as-tensions-with-microsoft-continue-growing/

[Data Phoenix Digest] NVIDIA GTC 2025 & Top AI Events of the Week! (March 17-23) Next week is packed with AI events, including NVIDIA GTC 2025 and top meetups happening alongside it. Check out our latest newsletter to explore key events, networking opportunities, and live demo sessions. Plan your AI week with Data Phoenix! https://dataphoenix.info/nvidia-gtc-2025-top-ai-events-of-the-week-march-17-23/

[News] 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. https://dataphoenix.info/ai-highlights-review-march-5-12/

[News] HelloBetter secures over €6M to expand its AI-powered mental health solutions HelloBetter has secured €6 million in funding to expand internationally and develop AI-powered digital mental health solutions, bringing its total funding to €31 million. The company plans to enter the French market by establishing a partnership with Mutuelles Impact, which led the funding round. https://dataphoenix.info/hellobetter-secures-over-eu6m-to-expand-its-ai-powered-mental-health-solutions/

[News] CoreWeave revealed its acquisition of the AI developer platform Weights & Biases CoreWeave is acquiring Weights & Biases to create an end-to-end platform that combines cloud infrastructure with AI development tools. The deal unites two industry leaders and aims to accelerate AI innovation while maintaining support for existing Weights & Biases customers. https://dataphoenix.info/coreweave-revealed-its-acquisition-of-the-ai-developer-platform-weights-biases/

[News] Mistral AI launched a new OCR API that processes PDFs into a nicely ordered Markdown file Mistral AI launched a document understanding API that processes PDF files using OCR to generate Markdown documents, offering superior performance for mathematical equations, scanned documents, and multilingual content while processing up to 2000 pages per minute. https://dataphoenix.info/mistral-ai-launched-a-new-ocr-api-that-processes-pdfs-into-a-nicely-ordered-markdown-file/

[News] Google's new 'AI mode' adds more AI to Search and enables users to ask complex questions Google has launched an AI mode for Search: an experimental product that leverages AI to handle complex queries typically addressed by performing multiple traditional web searches. In parallel, the company also announced it expanded access to its AI Overviews, now powered by Gemini 2.0. https://dataphoenix.info/googles-new-ai-mode-lets-users-extends-ai-features-in-search/

[News] Scrunch AI has raised $4M in a seed round to optimize how businesses appear in AI search Scrunch AI recently exited beta with $4M in seed funding from Mayfield to help businesses maintain visibility in AI-generated search results. Scrunch AI has seen promising adoption, having already secured 25 enterprise customers, including Lenovo and Crunchbase. https://dataphoenix.info/scrunch-ai-has-raised-4m-in-a-seed-round-to-optimize-how-businesses-appear-in-ai-search/

[News] Cohere's open research lab released Aya Vision, a "best-in-class" open-weights vision model Cohere for AI released the Aya Vision models (8B/32B), which support 23 languages, perform remarkably well in image captioning, visual Q&A, and translations, and outperform competitors in benchmarks. Aya Vision is available via Cohere Playground, WhatsApp, Kaggle, and Hugging Face. https://dataphoenix.info/coheres-open-research-lab-released-aya-vision-a-best-in-class-open-weights-vision-model/

[News] Anthropic has raised an additional $3.5B in a Series E round Anthropic announced earlier this week that it has secured $3.5B in a Series E funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with new and existing investors participating. This Series E announcement follows the Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code launches. https://dataphoenix.info/anthropic-has-raised-an-additional-3-5b-in-a-series-e-round/

[News] OpenAI releases the long-awaited GPT-4.5/Orion, its last non-chain-of-thought model OpenAI has released GPT-4.5, its largest AI model to date, featuring improved knowledge and emotional intelligence. But while GPT-4.5 is a clear improvement over GPT-4o, it falls behind the o series in benchmark evaluations and comes with dramatically higher costs. https://dataphoenix.info/openai-releases-the-long-awaited-gpt-4-5-orion-its-last-non-chain-of-thought-model-2/

[News] Anthropic raises the stakes in the generative AI race with Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code Anthropic launches Claude 3.7 Sonnet, the first hybrid reasoning AI that offers both quick responses and visible step-by-step thinking. It excels at coding tasks and comes with Claude Code, a new terminal tool for developers. https://dataphoenix.info/anthropic-raises-the-stakes-in-the-generative-ai-race-with-claude-3-7-sonnet-and-claude-code/

[News] The recently launched Grok 3 is already a subject of controversy xAI launched Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini with reasoning capabilities and a DeepSearch agent. Shortly after their release, the models sparked controversy when xAI compared their consensus-based math scores to competitors' single-attempt metrics, highlighting ongoing issues with benchmark comparisons. https://dataphoenix.info/the-recently-launched-grok-3-is-already-a-subject-of-controversy/

[News] Meta's first-ever AI developer conference, LlamaCon, will take place on April 29 Meta announced LlamaCon, its first developer conference for its generative AI ecosystem on April 29. The LlamaCon announcement follows a year of rapid Llama model releases that gained 650M+ downloads and 85,000+ derivatives. https://dataphoenix.info/metas-first-ever-ai-developer-conference-llamacon-will-take-place-on-april-29/

[News] Mistral AI released Mistral Saba, an LLM specializing in Middle East and South Asia languages Mistral AI has launched Mistral Saba, a language model optimized for Arabic that works well with Indian-origin languages, positioning the startup to expand its presence in Middle Eastern and South Asian markets. https://dataphoenix.info/mistral-ai-released-mistral-saba-an-llm-specialized-in-languages-from-the-middle-east-and-south-asia/

[News] Lingo.dev Raises $4.2M to Automate App Localization Using AI Lingo.dev, a startup offering AI-powered UI localization automation for developers, has secured $4.2 million in seed funding to provide comprehensive app, database, and website translation services beyond simple text conversion. https://dataphoenix.info/lingo-dev-raises-4-2m-to-automate-app-localization-using-ai/

[News] Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati Launches Thinking Machines Lab to Make AI More Accessible Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati has launched Thinking Machines Lab, a new AI startup focused on making artificial intelligence more customizable and accessible while advancing AI capabilities, with a team of prominent AI researchers from OpenAI and other leading companies. https://dataphoenix.info/former-openai-cto-mira-murati-launches-thinking-machines-lab-to-make-ai-more-accessible/