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[Data Phoenix Digest] NVIDIA GTC 2025 & Top AI Events of the Week! (March 17-23) Next week is packed with AI events, including NVIDIA GTC 2025 and top meetups happening alongside it. Check out our latest newsletter to explore key events, networking opportunities, and live demo sessions. Plan your AI week with Data Phoenix! https://dataphoenix.info/nvidia-gtc-2025-top-ai-events-of-the-week-march-17-23/

[News] OpenAI to invest billions in CoreWeave as tensions with Microsoft continue growing CoreWeave and OpenAI announced a strategic partnership to provide the latter with even more AI infrastructure. OpenAI has committed up to $11.9 billion to be disbursed across five years in exchange for $350 million in shares. https://dataphoenix.info/openai-to-invest-billions-in-coreweave-as-tensions-with-microsoft-continue-growing/

[News] Gleamer adds AI-assisted MRI diagnosis to its portfolio after acquiring Pixyl and Caerus Medical Gleamer recently acquired Pixyl and Caerus Medical to expand its portfolio to include neural and lumbar MRI scan analysis, furthering its goal of developing specialized AI tools for various radiology diagnostics tasks. https://dataphoenix.info/gleamer-adds-ai-assisted-mri-diagnosis-to-its-portfolio-after-acquiring-pixyl-and-caerus-medical/

[News] OpenAI Launches New Tools for Building AI Agents OpenAI has launched a comprehensive suite of new tools including the Responses API, built-in capabilities for web search, file search, and computer use, and an open-source Agents SDK—all designed to make it significantly easier for developers to build AI agents. https://dataphoenix.info/openai-launches-new-tools-for-building-ai-agents/

[News] Hugging Face's new iOS app can identify and describe whatever is in your camera's field of view Hugging Face has released HuggingSnap, an iOS app that runs SmolVLM2 locally and efficiently to enable visual understanding and text-based generative AI tasks, such as answering questions about an image or identifying and describing objects from visual input. https://dataphoenix.info/hugging-faces-new-ios-app-can-identify-and-describe-whatever-is-in-your-cameras-field-of-view/

[BriefView with Dmytro Spodarets] Jitlife's Rideable Smart Suitcases: Fun Meets Function Say goodbye to boring bags — this electric rideable suitcase scooter lets you glide through airports with ease. Discover why Jitlife’s smart luggage is every traveler’s dream! https://dataphoenix.info/jitlifes-rideable-smart-suitcases-fun-meets-function/

[News] The newly released ARC-AGI-2 brings new challenges for "reasoning" models The ARC Prize Foundation has officially released the ARC-AGI-2 to challenge current foundation models and help track progress towards AGI. Additionally, the Foundation has opened the ARC Prize 2025, running from Mar 26 to Nov 3, with a $700K Grand Prize for an 85% scoring solution on the ARC-AGI-2. https://dataphoenix.info/the-newly-released-arc-agi-2-brings-new-challenges-for-reasoning-models/

[News] OpenAI delays the new GPT-4o image generation feature for free users due to high demand OpenAI announced GPT-4o's new image generation capabilities this Tuesday. The GPT-4o is set to replace DALL·E as the default image generation model. Because image generation with 4o was so enthusiastically adopted by subscribers, OpenAI was forced to delay the feature rollout to free-tier users. https://dataphoenix.info/openai-delays-the-new-gpt-4o-image-generation-feature-for-free-users-due-to-high-demand/

[News] Browser Use secures $17M in seed funding to help AI agents navigate the web Browser Use has raised $17 million in seed funding, led by Felicis Ventures, to build infrastructure that converts website interfaces into structured text. This will enable AI agents to navigate the web more effectively and reliably than vision-based approaches. https://dataphoenix.info/browser-use-secures-17m-in-seed-funding-to-help-ai-agents-navigate-the-web/

[News] Google Unveils Gemini 2.5: Its Most Intelligent AI Model Yet Google has launched Gemini 2.5 Pro, its most intelligent "thinking model" to date. The model leads in reasoning and coding benchmarks, and features a 1M token context window. Gemini 2.5 Pro is now available for Gemini Advanced users, with Vertex AI integration coming soon. https://dataphoenix.info/google-unveils-gemini-2-5-its-most-intelligent-ai-model-yet/

[News] Microsoft launches the Researcher and Analyst AI agents in Microsoft 365 Copilot Microsoft launched two AI reasoning agents for 365 Copilot. Researcher handles complex research using multiple sources, while Analyst functions as a data scientist to transform raw data into insights. The agents will roll out this month as part of a new program called "Frontier". https://dataphoenix.info/microsoft-launches-the-researcher-and-analyst-ai-agents-in-microsoft-365-copilot/

[News] Amazon's Nova Act joins OpenAI and Anthropic's computer using AI agents Amazon unveiled Nova Act, an AI model for browser-based task completion. Available as a research preview, Nova Act prioritizes reliability in executing simple commands rather than higher-level workflows as the key to unlock genuine AI agents that are both capable and autonomous. https://dataphoenix.info/amazons-nova-act-joins-openai-and-anthropics-computer-using-ai-agents/

[News] Runway raised a $308M Series D round following its Gen-4 video generation model launch Runway has released Gen-4, its most advanced AI video generation model yet, shortly before announcing it secured $308 million in Series D funding, positioning the company as a major player in the evolving AI media creation landscape despite legal challenges and industry disruption concerns. https://dataphoenix.info/runway-raised-a-308m-series-d-round-following-its-gen-4-video-generation-model-launch/

[News] Llama 4: Meta's first natively multimodal mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture models Meta has released the Llama 4 models—Scout and Maverick—featuring native multimodality, mixture-of-experts architecture, and state-of-the-art context lengths. Meta also previewed Behemoth, a trillion-parameter model that supposedly outperforms GPT-4.5 and Claude 3.7 Sonnet on STEM benchmarks. https://dataphoenix.info/llama-4-metas-first-natively-multimodal-mixture-of-experts-moe-architecture-models/

[News] ​The AI Rabbit Hole 2025 - Through the Looking Glass Step into the AI Rabbit Hole on April 24 in San Francisco — a one-of-a-kind conference blending visionary AI leaders, GenAI innovation, and an unforgettable afterparty. https://dataphoenix.info/the-ai-rabbit-hole-2025-through-the-looking-glass/