AI chip startup Cerebras Systems has closed a financing round of over one billion dollars. The funding values the company at around 23 billion dollars, according to a press release. Tiger Global led the round, with Benchmark, Fidelity, AMD, Coatue, and other investors participating.
Cerebras, based in Sunnyvale, California, builds specialized AI chips for fast inference - the speed at which AI models generate responses. The company's approach uses an entire wafer as a single chip, called the "Wafer Scale Engine" (WSE). Its current flagship is the WSE-3.
Chinese company Kling has released video model 3.0. The new model is described as an "all-in-one creative engine" for multimodal creation. Key features include improved consistency for characters and elements, video production with 15-second clips and better control, and customizable multi-shot recording. Audio features now support multiple character references along with additional languages and accents. For image generation, Kling 3.0 offers 4K output, a new continuous shooting mode, and what the company calls "more cinematic visuals."
Ultra subscribers get exclusive early access through the Kling AI website. Official details on a general release, API access, or technical documentation aren't available yet. The Kling team published a paper on the Kling Omni models in December 2025. The YouTube channel "Theoretically Media" got early access and published a detailed first impression video. According to the channel, the model should roll out to other subscription levels within a week.
Anthropic positions itself against advertising while exploring commercial chat transactions. In a blog post, the company says Claude will remain ad-free: no sponsored links, no advertiser-influenced responses. Unlike search engines, users often share personal information in AI chats, and advertising could push conversations toward transactions rather than helpfulness, concerns OpenAI CEO Sam Altman once shared before his company decided to pursue ads after all.
Expanding access to Claude is central to our public benefit mission, and we want to do it without selling our users’ attention or data to advertisers.
Instead, Anthropic plans to fund operations through enterprise contracts and subscriptions. The company is also exploring e-commerce transactions like bookings or purchases Claude handles for users. Anthropic could earn from these, similar to OpenAI's plans. However, the company says Claude's primary goal should always be providing helpful answers.
Alibaba has released Qwen3-Coder-Next, a new open-weight AI model for programming agents and local development. Trained on 800,000 verifiable tasks, the model has 80 billion parameters total but only 3 billion active at any time. Despite this small footprint, Alibaba says it outperforms or matches much larger open-source models on coding benchmarks, scoring above 70 percent on SWE-Bench Verified with the SWE-Agent framework. As always, benchmarks only indicate real-world performance.
Qwen3-Coder-Next competes with much larger models across multiple coding benchmarks while using only 3 billion active parameters. | Image: Qwen
The model supports 256,000 tokens of context and works with development environments like Claude Code, Qwen Code, Qoder, Kilo, Trae, and Cline. Local tools like Ollama, LMStudio, MLX-LM, llama.cpp, and KTransformers also support it. Qwen3-Coder-Next is available on Hugging Face and ModelScope under the Apache 2.0 license. More details in the blog post and technical report.
OpenAI has filled its "Head of Preparedness" position with Dylan Scandinaro, who previously worked on AI safety at competitor Anthropic. CEO Sam Altman announced the hire on X, calling Scandinaro "by far the best candidate" for the role. With OpenAI working on "extremely powerful models," Altman said strong safety measures are essential.
There’s a lot of work to do, and not much time to do it!
Dylan Scandinaro
Scandinaro's Anthropic background adds an interesting layer. The company was founded by former OpenAI employees concerned about OpenAI's product focus and what they saw as insufficient safety measures, and has since become known as one of the more safety-conscious AI developers. Altman says he plans to work with Scandinaro to implement changes across the company.
A new platform lets AI agents pay humans to do the real-world work they can't
On Rentahuman.ai, AI agents can hire people for real-world tasks, from holding signs to picking up packages. It sounds absurd, but it shows what happens when language models stop just talking and start taking action.
These games provide objective ways to measure skills like planning and decision-making under uncertainty. Gemini 3 Pro and Gemini 3 Flash currently hold the top spots in all rankings. The Werewolf benchmark serves double duty for security research as well: it tests whether models can detect manipulation without any real-world consequences. According to Google Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis, the AI industry needs more rigorous tests to properly evaluate the latest models.
Mozilla is rolling out new AI settings with Firefox 148 on February 24. Users will be able to manage all the browser's generative AI features from a single location, or turn them off entirely, the company announced in a blog post.
The new settings cover translations, automatic image descriptions in PDFs, AI-powered tab grouping, link previews, and a chatbot in the sidebar. The chatbot supports services like Anthropic Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, and Le Chat Mistral.
For users who want nothing to do with AI features, a single toggle blocks all AI extensions. Once enabled, no pop-ups or notifications about current or future AI features will appear. The settings persist through updates. Users who want to try the feature early can find it in Firefox Nightly.
