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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
Research

Google DeepMind: Video Generators Hold Key to Computer Vision

Researchers at Google DeepMind have developed GenCeption, a model that repurposes a pre-trained video generator for classic computer vision tasks like depth estimation and segmentation. The system builds on an open-source video model from Alibaba and delivers results in a single forward pass, guided by text prompts. It trained on just a small set of synthetic videos and needs far less data than competing approaches. In benchmarks, GenCeption matches established specialized models and transfers its abilities to real-world footage and untrained categories like animals. The authors say this supports the contested idea that video generators can serve as the basis for universal world models in computer vision.

Jul 195 minNeura News
AI Models

Cohere Transcribe Arabic open-source model targets dialect challenges

Cohere has launched Cohere Transcribe Arabic, an open-source 2-billion-parameter ASR model designed for Arabic speech recognition. The company claims it is the most accurate open-source Arabic speech-to-text system, outperforming Whisper Large V3 and the standard Cohere Transcribe model in benchmarks. The model handles dialect variety, code-switching, bilingual conversations, and specialized vocabulary.

Jul 72 minNeura News