On Monday, Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek launched a new, open-source large language model called DeepSeek R1. According to DeepSeek, R1 wins over other popular LLMs (large language models) such as OpenAI in several important benchmarks, and it's especially good with mathematical, coding, and reasoning tasks.

AI is exciting, powerful and controversial, and some critics doubt the tech delivers on its promise. But the next big wave of AI 'agents' may prove genuinely helpful.

An organization developing math benchmarks for AI didn't disclose that it had received funding from OpenAI until relatively recently.

OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank will create a venture named Stargate, with President Trump calling it "the largest AI infrastructure project in history."

President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that three leading companies would make a large investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure.

While OpenAI’s lobbying spending is still dwarfed by bigger tech players, the uptick comes as it and other AI companies are helping redraw the shape of AI policy. Read the full story. Forget massive steel tanks—some scientists want to make chemicals with the help of rocks deep beneath Earth’s surface.

OpenAI Chief Product Officer Kevin Weil said that Stargate—a just announced $500 billion AI infrastructure initiative backed by OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank—will provide the massive computing power

OpenAI, SoftBank (9984.T), and Oracle (ORCL.N) will form a joint venture called Stargate, with a plan to invest $500 billion, Trump said at the White House. Trump said he will help facilitate the project with emergency orders.

The new agreement “includes changes to the exclusivity on new capacity, moving to a model where Microsoft has a right of first refusal (ROFR),” Microsoft says. “To further support OpenAI, Microsoft has approved OpenAI’s ability to build additional capacity, primarily for research and training of models.”

SoftBank Group Corp., OpenAI, and Oracle Corp. are forming a $100 billion joint venture to fund artificial intelligence infrastructure, an effort unveiled with President Donald Trump aimed at speeding development of the emerging technology.

President Donald Trump announced a joint venture Tuesday with OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank to invest billions of dollars in AI infrastructure in the United States.