The $500 billion Stargate project is projected to create hundreds of thousands of jobs. Here's what's known so far.

The AI contender to the apparent market leader finished a $2 million funding round and now has a $60 billion valuation.

A software engineer bought the website OGOpenAI.com and implemented a redirect to the website for the Chinese AI lab DeepSeek.

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

ByteDance released Doubao-1.5-pro, an upgrade to its flagship AI model, which it claims outperforms OpenAI's o1 in AIME.

A plan to build a system of data centers for artificial intelligence has been revealed in a White House press conference, with Masayoshi Son, Sam Altman, and Larry Ellison joining Donald Trump to announce The Stargate Project.

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.

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.”

Google challenges OpenAI with free Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking model, offering million-token processing, native code execution, and breakthrough performance in math and science benchmarks.

OpenAI, Oracle, Softbank and MGX are investing a record amount in new AI infrastructure even as China's DeepSeek outperforms on cost.

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