OpenAI's $50M Consortium, Amazon's AI Expansion, and SK Telecom's GPU-Packed Data Center - Daily AI Brief #123

March 05, 2025 - Daily AI Brief

Hi there,

Welcome to today's AI Brief.

OpenAI has announced the launch of the NextGenAI Consortium with a funding of $50 million. Meanwhile, Amazon is expanding its AI capabilities by launching an AI Agent Group within AWS. Fractile is addressing inference bottlenecks with the development of a new AI chip.

In other news, SK Telecom plans to build an AI data center equipped with 60,000 GPUs, and Bain & Company has highlighted a shortage in AI talent. EcoDataCenter has raised 5 billion SEK to support its growth and sustainability initiatives.

Top stories

OpenAI Launches NextGenAI Consortium with $50M Funding
OpenAI has announced the formation of NextGenAI, a consortium of 15 top research institutions. The initiative is backed by $50 million to enhance AI research and education. Read more
Amazon Launches AI Agent Group in AWS
Amazon has formed a new group within its AWS division to develop AI agents aimed at automating tasks, led by Swami Sivasubramanian. This move is seen as a potential business opportunity following recent updates to Alexa showcasing agentic capabilities. Read more
Fractile Develops AI Chip to Tackle Inference Bottlenecks
Fractile, a UK-based startup, has introduced an innovative AI chip design that integrates storage and compute on a single chip. This development aims to significantly enhance AI inference by being faster, cheaper, and more energy-efficient than existing solutions. Read more
Alec Radford Subpoenaed in OpenAI Copyright Case
Alec Radford, a former researcher at OpenAI, has been subpoenaed in a copyright lawsuit against the company. The case involves allegations by authors that OpenAI used their works without permission for AI model training. Read more
Google Restricts Gemini's Political Responses
Google's AI chatbot, Gemini, limits its responses on political topics, differing from competitors like OpenAI and Anthropic that allow political engagement. Read more
Amazon's Nova AI Model to Launch in June
Amazon is developing an AI reasoning model under the Nova brand, expected to launch in June. The model aims to enhance query responses with advanced reasoning capabilities and will feature a hybrid architecture similar to Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet. Read more
CoreWeave to Acquire Weights & Biases
CoreWeave has announced its agreement to acquire Weights & Biases, aiming to create an end-to-end solution for AI labs and enterprises by combining cloud services with AI model training and monitoring tools. Read more
Cohere Introduces Aya Vision AI Model
Cohere, a Canadian AI startup, has unveiled Aya Vision, a multimodal model that combines language and vision capabilities, supporting 23 languages. It is designed for tasks such as image captioning and visual question answering. Read more
LlamaIndex Secures $19M Series A and Launches LlamaCloud
LlamaIndex has secured $19 million in Series A funding led by Norwest Venture Partners and announced the launch of LlamaCloud, a platform for managing unstructured data. The funding will support team expansion and product enhancement, with LlamaCloud available as a SaaS or on-premise solution. Read more

Other news

Subscribe to Daily AI Brief

Daily report covering major AI developments and industry news, with both top stories and complete market updates