The Browser Company teases Dia, its new AI browser

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1. The Browser Company teases Dia, its new AI browser

The Browser Company, the creators of Arc Browser and Arc Search, has teased its new web browser, Dia, which focuses on AI tools. The browser is set to launch in early 2025, and the company has launched a website with a video about the browser and various open roles.

Early prototypes show features such as an insertion cursor, command-based actions, and the ability to perform actions on users' behalf. The challenge for the company is to create a browser with AI features that work seamlessly and potentially generate revenue.

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2.OpenAI gets new $1.5 billion investment from SoftBank, allowing employees to sell shares in a tender offer

OpenAI is offering employees $1.5 billion worth of shares in a new tender offer to SoftBank, allowing them to sell their shares and potentially cash out their shares. The deal, spurred by SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son, is not related to OpenAI's potential for restructure to a for-profit business.

The tender offer is carried out through SoftBank's Vision 2 fund, highlighting Son's interest in the AI space and backing valuable private players. OpenAI's valuation has climbed to $157 billion since its launch, and the tender offer aligns with the company's most recent funding round.

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3. Elon Musk asks court to stop OpenAI from becoming a for-profit

Elon Musk's attorneys have filed for an injunction against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing them of anticompetitive practices and attempting to prevent OpenAI's transition to a for-profit company.

The filing also names OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, Microsoft's Dee Templeton, and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman as defendants. Musk has previously sued OpenAI for violating its mission of building AI for humanity. The motion accuses OpenAI of misleading investors and committing antitrust violations.

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4. OLMo 2: The best fully open language model to date

Since the release of the first OLMo in February 2024, the open language model ecosystem has experienced rapid growth, narrowing the performance gap between open and proprietary models. OLMo-2 introduces a new family of 7B and 13B models trained on up to 5T tokens, competitive with open-weight models like Llama 3.1 on English academic benchmarks.

The models achieve Pareto-optimal efficiency among open models, thanks to investments in core model development competencies and critical aspects of model development. OLMo 2 is compared to other open models using a suite of 20 evaluation benchmarks.

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5. Hume says it used Anthropic’s new agentic tools to build an app that lets you “control a computer with just your voice.”