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🖥Nvidia unveiled the Rubin platform at CES 2026, combining six new chips into a unified AI supercomputer that delivers 5x the training compute of its Blackwell line.

💧Liquid AI released LFM 2.5, a new SOTA open-weight model family for on-device AI across text, vision, and audio that tops benchmarks compared to similar-sized rivals.

💡Lightricks open-sourced LTX-2, an AI video model capable of generating native 4K footage and synced audio with granular camera and motion control.

💻AMD CEO Lisa Su said during a presentation at CES 2026 that global AI users will surpass 5B in the next five years, requiring compute to increase 100x to meet demand.

🥇AI benchmarking platform LM Arena raised $150M in Series A funding at a $1.7B valuation, tripling its seed round value.

🤖Anthropic’s Daniela Amodei appeared on an interview with CNBC, saying “the exponential continues until it doesn’t… and every year it has” in regards to AI scaling.

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🧠 LFM 2.5 - Liquid AI’s new AI models for on-device speed and efficiency

💡 LTX-2 - Lightricks' new open-source foundation video model

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