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OpenAI and Anthropic competition spills into IPO push as profitability race heats up
Competition between OpenAI and Anthropic is moving to plans for initial public offerings, with both companies reported to be preparing for IPOs as early as the fourth quarter. A listing could force greater attention on revenue and profit after years of heavy spending. The article also rounds up moves across the AI sector, including new products from OpenAI and Anthropic, model and tool releases from Microsoft, AWS and Google, and developments by Meta, Cursor and South Korean firms.
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Microsoft open-sources 15 billion-parameter multimodal AI model
Microsoft has released its 15 billion-parameter multimodal AI model, Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, as open source, SiliconANGLE reported on Thursday. The model combines SigLIP-2 and Phi-4 Reasoning and is optimised for multimodal data such as science and mathematics graphs. Microsoft applies a mid-fusion method to reduce hardware burden and allows reasoning to be toggled via prompts. It trained the model largely on open-source data and published it on Hugging Face, GitHub and Azure.
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AI price war begins as physical AI market expands
Price competition among major AI companies is intensifying as providers introduce lower-priced chatbot subscriptions aimed at reducing barriers for free users to switch to paid plans. OpenAI expanded its ad-supported ChatGPT Go plan beyond India, and Google launched a $7.99 monthly Google AI Plus plan globally. Separately, companies are speeding efforts to apply physical AI in manufacturing, while startups and enterprises pursue funding, partnerships and product rollouts across robotics, automation and AI platforms.
