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Baseten raises $1.5B as inference becomes the prize
Baseten’s new Series F values the inference infrastructure company at up to $13 billion, reflecting investor demand for cheaper, faster and more reliable model serving.
Gemini 3.1 Pro tops 12 out of 18 benchmarks
Google DeepMind's Gemini 3.1 Pro leads in 12 of 18 tracked benchmarks, with a standout 77.1% on ARC-AGI-2 for novel reasoning. The model doubles inference capabilities over its predecessor, adds a medium thinking level, and supports up to 1M token context, but trails GPT-5.4 Pro and Claude Opus 4.6 in overall composite scores and coding tasks.
Kimi K1.5 validates reinforcement learning-driven reasoning
Moonshot AI's K1.5 model, released before K2, demonstrates that pure reinforcement learning can enhance reasoning capabilities, validating the approach for scaling to larger models.