Gemini 3 Pro tops new AI reliability benchmark, but hallucination rates remain high

A new benchmark from Artificial Analysis reveals alarming weaknesses in the factual reliability of large language models. Out of 40 models tested, only four achieved a positive score - with Google [...]

Doritos and Cheetos Go Dye-Free With New Line of Snacks, and We Have Questions

The Simply NKD line of the beloved snacks will have no dyes or artificial flavors, but you can still buy the original eye-wateringly orange versions. [...]

Bezos’s Prometheus raises $12 billion at $41 billion valuation to build AI that engineers physical products

Prometheus, the AI startup co-led by Jeff Bezos, has raised $12 billion in a funding round that values the company at $41 billion. Investors include JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, DST Globa [...]

DeepSeek's latest AI model is by far the cheapest of major models to run

Research firm Artificial Analysis found V4-Flash costs 3 cents per test run, versus $3.15 for Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 [...]

Deepmind co-founder Shane Legg sees 50 percent chance of "minimal AGI" by 2028

DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg puts the odds of achieving "minimal AGI" at 50 percent by 2028. In the DeepMind podcast, Legg lays out his framework: a scale running from minimal AGI through [...]

iPhone 17e hands-on: Pretty in pink, with portraits enabled

The iPhone 17e was announced on Monday through a press release, so there was no real chance to immediately get a hands-on with it. But at Apple’s event in New York today, the phone was on display al [...]

Korean AI startup Motif reveals 4 big lessons for training enterprise LLMs

We've heard (and written, here at VentureBeat) lots about the generative AI race between the U.S. and China, as those have been the countries with the groups most active in fielding new models (w [...]

New Year's AI surprise: Fal releases its own version of Flux 2 image generator that's 10x cheaper and 6x more efficient

Hot on the heels of its new $140 million Series D fundraising round, the multi-modal enterprise AI media creation platform fal.ai, known simply as "fal" or "Fal" is back with a yea [...]

TII’s Falcon H1R 7B can out-reason models up to 7x its size — and it’s (mostly) open

For the last two years, the prevailing logic in generative AI has been one of brute force: if you want better reasoning, you need a bigger model. While "small" models (under 10 billion param [...]