
Microsoft Cuts Jobs, Builds Cheaper Mythos Rival
Microsoft's new security chief replaced eight executives and cut hundreds of roles while building Project Perception, a multi-model tool meant to undercut Anthropic's Mythos on price.
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Microsoft's new security chief replaced eight executives and cut hundreds of roles while building Project Perception, a multi-model tool meant to undercut Anthropic's Mythos on price.

Databricks signed a term sheet for a $188 billion valuation days after quietly making a Chinese open-weight model its default coding engine over Anthropic.

Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman have launched Ode, a $1.5 billion AI implementation firm betting that deploying models beats building them.

Clem Delangue says cost is pushing companies off frontier APIs and onto open models. A16z's own CIO survey shows enterprise dollars still moving the other way.

Lyzr closed a $100M Series B at a $500M valuation using its own AI agent SivaClaw to handle investor inquiries from 130+ funds - no founders needed on the road.

Ollama raises $65M Series B led by Theory Ventures as 8.9 million monthly developers and 85% of Fortune 500 companies adopt local AI model deployment.

Prime Intellect closed a $130M Series A at a $1B valuation, giving enterprises compute, RL training, and evaluation tools to build their own AI agents without relying on frontier labs.

Anthropic's Claude models are now generally available in Microsoft Foundry on Azure, running on NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell Ultra NVL72 racks - with vendor numbers claiming 40% faster token generation than H100.

A practical guide to using AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude to draft a business plan section by section, with prompts you can copy.

Microsoft launches Frontier Company with $2.5B and 6,000 engineers to embed AI inside enterprise clients, escalating the arms race against OpenAI, Anthropic, and Amazon.

Amazon's new Forward Deployed Engineering unit places AI specialists inside enterprise clients to build and ship agentic systems in weeks, following similar programs already launched by OpenAI and Anthropic.

California gives all state agencies access to Claude at 50% off, as Newsom publicly breaks with the federal government's hostile stance toward Anthropic.