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AI Models and Advanced Tools Attracting Major Investment
Major technology developments include OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and Anthropic's advanced models with enhanced capabilities, plus significant funding rounds for AI companies. Moment secured $78M Series C for AI trading tools, while discussion of advanced AI-powered features in Google Docs and other platforms continues to accelerate.
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- What to know about the AI models that are jolting Washington
- Moment, which develops AI tools for automating fixed-income and equities trading tech, raised a $78M Series C led by Index Ventures, with a16z participating (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)
- Hands-on with a pre-release build of Google Docs Live, an AI-powered voice tool for drafting documents, rolling out this summer to AI Pro and Ultra subscribers (Nicole Nguyen/Wall Street Journal)
- Salesforce's promotional videos showcased Agentforce mock-ups and features that are not widely available, as CEO Marc Benioff defends forward-looking marketing (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
- Greg Brockman: Inside the 72 Hours That Almost Killed OpenAI
- DeepSeek says it will lower V4 Pro API prices by 75% to $0.435/1M input and $0.87/1M output tokens, making permanent the discount prices set to expire on May 31 (Bloomberg)