AI news and funding updates from the last 24 hours(14th Jan 2025):

🏻 AI News

✅ OpenAI Blueprint: Released a proposal urging the US to attract AI funding, build infrastructure, and responsibly regulate AI to maintain leadership and prevent $175B investment loss to China.

✅ Microsoft CoreAI Division: Formed under Jay Parikh to accelerate AI infrastructure and software, focusing on "model-forward" applications reshaping software.

✅ Nvidia's AI Mini PC: Launched $3,000 Project Digits with Grace Blackwell GB10 Superchip, a Linux-based AI supercomputer hinting at potential Windows PC disruption.

✅ Mercedes-Benz & Google AI: Integrating generative AI into MBUX Virtual Assistant for conversational search and navigation, debuting in the new CLA model.

✅ UK Antitrust Probe: CMA investigates Google's AI search and ad practices, examining market dominance and data usage, with potential for major regulatory actions.

✅ Raspberry AI Funding: Raised $24M Series A for its text-to-image AI platform revolutionizing fashion design for brands like Under Armour.

✅ Blaize IPO: AI chip startup focusing on edge computing to go public via SPAC merger, targeting a $1.2B valuation.

✅ Meta Backlash: Faces criticism for AI-generated images in Instagram feeds, reflecting struggles with profitable AI applications.

✅ Simpli.fi Autopilot AI: Launched tools for simplified omnichannel campaign management, making programmatic advertising more accessible.

✅ ArcherMind & Arraymo: Unveiled FusionOS2.0 and ArraymoAIOS1.0 at CES 2025 for AI+OS integration, enabling smart applications in automotive, IoT, and smart home sectors.

✅ Singapore AI for Aging: Using robots like Dexie and AI tools for early depression detection to address its aging population, investing heavily in healthcare AI.

🏻 AI Funding Rounds

✅ SuperDial Acquisition: Acquired MajorBoost to enhance voice AI capabilities for healthcare automation, improving benefits verification and claim follow-up.

✅ Bioptimus Funding: Raised $41M to develop a "GPT of biology" for disease prediction and treatment development, with plans for a multi-modal model release.

✅ Open Ledger Launch: Raised $3M for AI-driven accounting software offering APIs and components for automated financial tasks in enterprises.

✅ LemFi Series B: Raised $53M to expand remittance services into Europe and Asia, handling $1B monthly transaction volume.