Handshake went from launch to $1B in one year pushing the envelope of specialized data for frontier labs. Our first deep dive into a data lab with specific examples across Finance, Bio, and Alignment
Back to Articles A few months ago, we added private data to the Open ASR Leaderboard : 11 splits from Appen and DataOceanAI covering scripted and conversational speech from five accents ( blog ). The community response was great, with many highlighting the importance of held-out sets for trustworthy evaluations .
Artificial Analysis overhauled its Intelligence Index, causing Kimi K3.1 Pro to drop five spots in the rankings.
Microsoft and Nvidia held a launch party for the first wave of RTX Spark laptops last week in San Francisco, where a new wave of AI PCs took center stage amid a packed crowd and a lively hands-on area.
The company behind the popular LMArena leaderboard has raised $200 million led by Lightspeed and Khosla, and is now measuring AI models on alignment issues such as lying.
GPT-6.1 Sol launch: OpenAI priced Sol at $2/$10 per million input/output tokens, compared with $10/$50 for Astra (pricing summary). Claimed results: It reportedly beats GPT-6 Sol by 6.4 points on DeepSWE v1.1 and Opus 5.5 by 2.2 points on AutomationBench (summary).
Google DeepMind announced the world’s first double-blind evaluation of proprietary frontier AI models, restricting external evaluations to cryptographically isolated environments to prevent models seeing test questions in advance. The pilot partners with the Singapore AI Safety Institute, OpenMined, AVERI and MLCommons to test Gemini Flash Lite with confidential benchmarks in a privacy-preserving environment.
The UK AISI alignment team and Timaeus co-founded nonprofit Sequent, arguing alignment research is unprepared for superintelligence. It plans 40–80 full-time staff within two to three years and initial fundraising of $100–150 million.