Amazon has reportedly cut staff in its frontier model AI group and is shutting down its entire lab, a move a spokesperson characterized as a 'narrowing of scope' rather than an end to model training.
The tape The AI Daily Brief · Jul 24
“On Thursday, we learned that this is not just a wave of layoffs from the team, but Amazon is shutting down the entire AI lab.”
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Payments firm Stripe is reportedly in negotiations to acquire model routing service OpenRouter for around $10 billion, a move that would add enterprise AI cost control tools to its vertically integrated stack.
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Microsoft says its fine-tuned MAI models deliver performance on par with GPT 5.6 for common Excel tasks, allowing it to deploy AI at scale on previous-generation hardware. The company is also making its MAI Image 2.5 the default for PowerPoint and Bing.