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Week of August 18, 2025 - AI News Roundup

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xAI open sources Grok 2.5

📰 Reuters | 📅 August 24, 2025

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence startup xAI has open-sourced its Grok 2.5 model and plans to do the same for its Grok 3 model in roughly six months.

Meet Macrohard, Elon Musk’s AI startup, simulating Microsoft

📰 X | 📅 August 22, 2025

Macrohard is xAI's playful project name (a nod to Microsoft) for building a fully AI-simulated software company. The goal: since firms like Microsoft produce no physical hardware, AI could theoretically replicate their entire operations

Musk asked Zuckerberg to join xAI bid to buy OpenAI

📰 CNBC | 📅 August 21, 2025

Meta and Zuckerberg received a letter of intent from Musk, to help him finance a $97.4 billion takeover of OpenAI in early 2025, but never signed it, the filing says. The filing was part of a lawsuit between Musk and OpenAI that was initiated last year.

Anthropic bundles Claude Code into enterprise plans

📰 TechCrunch AI | 📅 August 20, 2025

The integration positions Anthropic to better compete with command-line tools from Google and GitHub, both of which included enterprise integrations on launch.

TikTok parent company ByteDance released new open source model with 512K token context

📰 Venture Beat | 📅 August 20, 2025

Seed-OSS-36B is new line of open source, large language models (LLM) designed for advanced reasoning, and developer-focused usability with a longer token context than many competing LLMs from U.S. tech companies, even leaders such as OpenAI and Anthropic.

DeepSeek V3.1 just dropped - a powerful open AI

📰 DeepSeek On X | 📅 August 20, 2025

DeepSeek released its most powerful open model, V3.1, with hybrid inference, faster thinking, and stronger agent skills.

Nvidia releases a new small, open model Nemotron-Nano-9B-v2

📰 Venture Beat | 📅 August 18, 2025

Nvidia released a new small language model (SLM) of its own, Nemotron-Nano-9B-V2, which attained the highest performance in its class on selected benchmarks and comes with the ability for users to toggle on and off AI “reasoning,” that is, self-checking before outputting an answer.