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Medallion Raises $43M to Streamline Healthcare Credentialing with AI Platform Medallion, a healthcare technology company, has secured $43 million in new funding for its AI-powered platform, CredAlliance. The platform is designed to streamline the complex healthcare credentialing process for both insurers and clinicians. It manages the entire provider lifecycle—including credentialing, enrollment, onboarding, and compliance—aiming to significantly reduce administrative waste and combat clinician burnout. CredAlliance acts as a unified system for provider data management, enabling customers to efficiently verify credentials and maintain up-to-date network information. This latest investment, led by Acrew Capital, elevates Medallion’s total funding to $130 million and will fuel the expansion of the platform’s capabilities. ...

Google Launches Gemma 3 270M: A Compact AI Model for Specialized Tasks Google has introduced Gemma 3 270M, a new and compact AI model featuring 270 million parameters. This model is engineered for efficient, task-specific fine-tuning and offers robust instruction-following capabilities directly out of the box. Its minimal footprint makes it ideal for on-device and research applications, enabling developers to build and deploy multiple custom models for tasks like text classification and data extraction without requiring significant computational overhead. Google is providing both pretrained and instruction-tuned versions of the model through platforms such as Hugging Face, Ollama, and Kaggle. ...

OpenAI Releases GPT-OSS, Its First Open-Source Large Language Models In a significant move for the AI and open-source software communities, OpenAI has released GPT-OSS, its first-ever family of open-source large language models. Licensed under the permissive Apache 2.0, this release introduces two powerful models: gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b. Both are engineered for efficient inference and strong reasoning, leveraging a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture. The larger gpt-oss-120b model rivals OpenAI’s proprietary o4-mini and operates on a single 80GB GPU. Meanwhile, the compact gpt-oss-20b model, comparable to o3-mini, is optimized for on-device AI applications, requiring as little as 16GB of memory. Complementing the models, OpenAI also launched ‘Harmony,’ an open-source project defining a new prompt template format. ...

How Google AI’s New Method Reduces LLM Training Data by 10,000x Google Research has unveiled a groundbreaking method for fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) that reduces required training data by up to 10,000 times. This innovative approach utilizes active learning to focus expert labeling on the most informative examples, especially “boundary cases” where model uncertainty is highest. In experiments with Gemini Nano models, this technique matched or surpassed the quality of models trained on 100,000 random labels with as few as 250 to 450 targeted examples. This development promises to make AI model development significantly leaner, more agile, and more cost-effective. ...

OpenAI Launches GPT-5, Its Most Advanced AI Model Yet OpenAI has officially launched GPT-5, its latest and most powerful AI system. The company touts the new generative AI model as a major leap in artificial intelligence, showcasing state-of-the-art capabilities in coding, mathematics, creative writing, and health. GPT-5 operates as a unified system, engineered to provide rapid answers for simple queries and engage in deeper, longer ’thinking’ for more complex problems. The model is now available to all users, with premium access and features reserved for Plus and Pro subscribers. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman highlighted the model’s evolution, comparing GPT-3 to a high school student and GPT-4 to a college student, while describing GPT-5 as a ‘PhD-level expert.’ This landmark release is a significant move for OpenAI, poised to solidify its leadership in the competitive generative AI industry. ...

OpenAI’s GPT-5 Launch Set for August 2025 with Advanced Reasoning and Multimodal Features OpenAI is poised to release its next-generation generative AI model, GPT-5, in August 2025, promising significant advancements in reasoning, multimodal capabilities, and autonomous task execution. The new model is expected to feature a unified architecture, streamlining the user experience by eliminating the need to switch between different models for various tasks. GPT-5 is also anticipated to have a greatly expanded context window and introduce video processing capabilities, enabling more complex and coherent interactions. The release is seen as a major step towards more intuitive and powerful AI, with specialized versions planned for enterprise, real-time, and low-resource environments. This launch will intensify the AI competition with other major developers like Google. ...

Rajasthan Government to Introduce Policies on AI, Gaming, and Data Centers The government of Rajasthan in India is set to launch three new policies focused on artificial intelligence, gaming, and data centers. The Rajasthan AI Policy 2025 will promote the ethical and inclusive use of AI and establish a Centre of Excellence to support AI startups and research. An AVGC-XR Policy will support the animation, visual effects, gaming, and extended reality sectors, with plans for four Atal Innovation Studios backed by a Rs 1,000 crore budget. Additionally, a Data Centre Policy 2025 aims to create a secure ecosystem for private data centers to attract investment. ...