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Funding

Prentis AI Lab Co-Founded by Reid Hoffman, Marc Pincus Seeks $100M

Prentis, a new AI research lab co-founded by Ritankar Das, Reid Hoffman, and Marc Pincus, is in talks to raise $100 million at a $1 billion valuation. The startup focuses on computer use models that automate office workflows. It has already signed contracts worth up to $50 million with several customers and claims its Hive-32B model outperforms rivals like OpenAI's GPT-5.4 and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 on key benchmarks.

Jul 244 minNeura News
AI Models

Anthropic's $1.5B Piracy Settlement Marks Record Copyright Loss for AI Labs

Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to book authors in a copyright settlement approved by a federal court in San Francisco. The AI company downloaded books from piracy databases LibGen and PiLiMi between 2021 and 2022. Of roughly 482,460 listed works, 91.3 percent were claimed, netting authors about $3,000 each. Anthropic must destroy the pirated files. The settlement covers piracy, not AI training itself, and a judge previously ruled that training on legally obtained books is fair use.

Jul 223 minNeura News
AI Models

Deepseek makes 75% discount permanent, undercuts GPT-5.5 by 34x on output pricing

Deepseek has made its 75 percent discount on the flagship Deepseek V4 Pro model permanent, slashing output token prices to $0.87 per million versus $30 for GPT-5.5. The move intensifies the price war between Chinese and Western AI labs, with Deepseek offering output tokens at roughly 34.5 times less than OpenAI's top model. The permanent pricing, originally set to expire May 31, 2026, also undercuts Anthropic's Opus 4.7 by a similar margin on output tokens.

May 233 minNeura News
Automation

Jerry Tworek Launches Core Automation AI Lab

Former OpenAI researcher Jerry Tworek has started Core Automation, a new AI lab aimed at creating the most automated AI lab in the world by first automating its own research processes. The lab focuses on new learning algorithms that surpass pre-training and reinforcement learning methods, along with architectures that scale more effectively than transformers. Tworek, who left OpenAI after seven years in January 2026, joins other ex-OpenAI leaders in forming independent labs seeking fresh approaches to AI progress.

Apr 223 minNeura News