Building the next wave of AI: Freddy del Barrio’s approach for a more human model of intelligent care

In the ubiquitous age of artificial intelligence, the technology appears as if it is largely earmarked for optimizing the mechanics of work. Buzzwords like speed, automation, efficiency, and productiv [...]

Mistral AI launches Forge to help companies build proprietary AI models, challenging cloud giants

Mistral AI on Monday launched Forge, an enterprise model training platform that allows organizations to build, customize, and continuously improve AI models using their own proprietary data — a move [...]

New MiniMax M2.7 proprietary AI model is 'self-evolving' and can perform 30-50% of reinforcement learning research workflow

In the last few years, Chinese AI startup MiniMax has become one of the most exciting in the crowded global AI marketplace, carving out a reputation for delivering frontier-level large language models [...]

Xiaomi stuns with new MiMo-V2-Pro LLM nearing GPT-5.2, Opus 4.6 performance at a fraction of the cost

Chinese electronics and car manufacturer Xiaomi surprised the global AI community today with the release of MiMo-V2-Pro, a new 1-trillion parameter foundation model with benchmarks approaching those o [...]

eternal.ag raises €8M to put autonomous harvesting robots into greenhouses

The Cologne startup’s simulation-first approach trains robots in virtual greenhouses before deploying them in real ones, aiming to crack a deployment problem that has frustrated the industry for yea [...]

Intuit thinks it’s found your company’s next CFO: AI 

CTO Alex Balazs on turning financial software into a ‘system of intelligence,’ the limits of automation, and why trust remains the hardest problem. [...]

VC Montis raises €50M to back Europe’s energy and industrial tech startups

The Warsaw-based fund, backed by the European Investment Fund and the Polish Development Fund, plans 20–25 pre-seed and seed investments in companies working on energy transition, industrial automat [...]

Recap: Europe’s top funding rounds this week (16 -22 March)

A quieter week by headline standards, but one that reveals a great deal about where European venture capital is quietly concentrating: AI agents for physical industries, agritech automation, and the g [...]

Testing autonomous agents (Or: how I learned to stop worrying and embrace chaos)

Look, we've spent the last 18 months building production AI systems, and we'll tell you what keeps us up at night — and it's not whether the model can answer questions. That's ta [...]