AI Toolz Podcast - 2026-06-19 : openai poaches transformer legend

AI Toolz Podcast - 2026-06-19 : openai poaches transformer legend

OpenAI makes waves by recruiting Noam Shazeer, co-author of the legendary "Attention Is All You Need" paper, away from Google DeepMind. Meanwhile, AI inference startup Baseten closes a massive $1.5B round at $13B valuation, and General Intuition leverages gaming videos for world models with a $300M raise in the works. AI Toolz Podcast - 2026-06-19 : openai poaches transformer legend [https://aitoolz.tor1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/podcast/covers/2026-06-19_cover.jpg]

AI Toolz Podcast - 2026-06-18 : robots get real with data and dollars

Today we're covering XDOF's massive $70M raise and their release of RoboVerse, the largest open robot pre-training dataset ever. Plus, Odyssey's $310M Series B at a $1.45B valuation shows physical AI is the new frontier. And G7 leaders aren't happy about sudden US AI export restrictions—pushing for a trusted partners scheme instead of overnight shutoffs. AI Toolz Podcast - 2026-06-18 : robots get real with data and dollars [https://aitoolz.tor1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/podcast/covers/2026-06-18_cover.jpg]

AI Toolz Podcast - 2026-06-17 : spacex buys cursor for $60b

SpaceX acquires AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion as ChatGPT's market share falls below 50% for the first time. Anthropic's Claude now leads in enterprise spending, and Zhipu AI releases GLM-5.2, the new top-ranked open source model with a 1M token context window. AI Toolz Podcast - 2026-06-17 : spacex buys cursor for $60b [https://aitoolz.tor1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/podcast/covers/2026-06-17_cover.jpg]

AI Toolz Podcast - 2026-06-16 : salesforce drops $3.6B on AI agents

This episode covers Salesforce's $3.6 billion acquisition of Fin to power its Agentforce platform, 76 cybersecurity experts challenging the US government's export ban on Anthropic models, and Sarvam AI becoming India's newest unicorn with a $234M raise for sovereign language models. We explore what these stories reveal about the future of enterprise AI and global tech sovereignty. AI Toolz Podcast - 2026-06-16 : salesforce drops $3.6B on AI agents [https://aitoolz.tor1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/podcast/covers/2026-06-16_cover.jpg]

AI Toolz Podcast - 2026-06-15 : openrouter's fusion api shakes things up

This week: OpenRouter's revolutionary Fusion API matches banned Fable 5 performance by orchestrating multiple LLMs in parallel, potentially ending our reliance on single frontier models. Plus, NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3 Ultra—a massive 550B parameter open-weights model with a 1 million token context window that's built for blazing-fast agentic workflows. AI Toolz Podcast - 2026-06-15 : openrouter's fusion api shakes things up [https://aitoolz.tor1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/podcast/covers/2026-06-15_cover.jpg]