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January 28, 2026

 

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Tiny startup Arcee AI built a 400B-parameter open source LLM from scratch to best Meta's Llama

Tiny startup Arcee AI built a 400B-parameter open source LLM from scratch to best Meta's Llama: 30-person startup Arcee AI has released a 400B model called Trinity, which it says is one of the biggest open source foundation models from a U.S. company. Read More

With Apple’s new Creator Studio Pro, AI is a tool to aid creation, not replace it: Apple’s Creator Studio Pro leverages AI to help creators with tedious tasks — like finding clips or building slides — without trying to do the work for them. Read More

Chrome takes on AI browsers with tighter Gemini integration, agentic features for autonomous tasks: Google Chrome is adding Gemini in the sidebar and is rolling out an agentic feature for AI Pro and Ultra users. Read More

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