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

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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

• SK Telecom to Build AI Data Center with 60,000 GPUs

• Bain & Company Highlights AI Talent Shortage

• EcoDataCenter Raises 5 Billion SEK for Growth and Sustainability

• Sea.AI Integrates Sentry System into AIRCAT 35 Crewliner

• Heidi Raises $26 Million for AI Medical Scribe Technology

• Scrunch AI Launches Platform for AI Search Optimization

• Stream Proposes $6.3 Billion Data Center in New York

• MTA and Google Public Sector Launch AI Track Maintenance Pilot

• Lynx Tech Launches AI-Powered AML Solution

• WideBot AI Secures $3M for Arabic AI Model Development

• Nisien.AI Secures Funding from British Business Bank

• KredosAi Introduces New RCS Features at MWC 2025

• Plug and Play to Open AI Center in San Jose

• Klarna CEO Skeptical About AI Replacing Salesforce

• Quantexa Raises $175 Million in Series F Funding

• SandboxAQ Joins UN AI Hub for Security Solutions

• Mistral CEO Advocates for Telecom Investment in Data Centers

• 2CRSi Secures €7.4 Million AI Contract in France

• Socure Introduces AI Copilot for Watchlist Screening

• Alkami Acquires MANTL for $400 Million

• Whisper Secures $1 Million for AI Sales Tech

• HiddenLayer Report: 74% of Organizations Faced AI Breaches in 2024

• OpenAI Chairman on AI Agents at MWC 2025

• Mews Secures $75 Million for U.S. Expansion and AI Development

• JFrog Introduces JFrog ML with NVIDIA NIM Integration

• Meta Expands Anti-Fraud Facial Recognition to UK

• David Sosna Launches Sympera AI for Banking

• AdviserSoftware.com Launches AI Assessment Framework

• Tenet Fintech Launches ie-Pulse Data Platform

• Judge Denies Musk's Motion Against OpenAI's For-Profit Transition

• Viam AI Raises $30 Million for Robotics Platform Expansion

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