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Ineffable Intelligence, a new AI startup founded by DeepMind’s David Silver, has secured a record-breaking $1.1 billion seed funding round, valuing the company at $5.1 billion. Co-led by Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from tech giants like Nvidia and Google, the funding signals strong investor confidence in the pursuit of artificial superintelligence. The company focuses on reinforcement learning, aiming to create an AI that learns through experience rather than just internet data. This marks a significant trend of top AI talent leaving established firms to launch ambitious startups.

DataCanvas launched Alaya NeW Cloud 2.0, a next-gen intelligent computing platform featuring serverless architecture and reinforcement learning. It offers on-demand AI infrastructure, targeting compute-intensive applications with a user-friendly toolchain. By offering a “pay-as-you-go” model and streamlining AI development, the platform aims to reduce costs, provide efficient performance, and make AI computing accessible to developers worldwide. The platform also introduces the world’s first reinforcement learning intelligent computing service, AgentiCTRL, for improved efficiency.

OpenAI introduced Codex, a cloud-based software engineering agent, optimized for multi-task programming assistance. Leveraging an enhanced variant of its o3 model (codex-1) with reinforcement learning, Codex provides code generation, debugging, and workflow automation while enforcing security checks to block malicious code. Initially available to ChatGPT Pro/Team/Enterprise subscribers through a sidebar interface, the tool is being tested by enterprises like Cisco for codebase queries and feature development. Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot, Google’s Duet AI, and emerging competitors face heightened competition as OpenAI strategically expands its developer tool portfolio amid a $5 billion+ projected market growth.