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SoftBank acquires Graphcore

In July 2024 SoftBank Group acquired Graphcore, which became a wholly owned subsidiary and kept its name and offices; the deal was recorded at about US$500 million, subject to UK government review.

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Runway announces Gen-3 Alpha

On 17 June 2024 Runway announced Gen-3 Alpha, a video generation model trained jointly on video and images, with finer temporal control and C2PA provenance metadata. It opened to paying subscribers on 1 July 2024.

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OpenVLA released as open-source VLA

OpenVLA is an open-source vision-language-action model released in June 2024: trained on 970,000 robot manipulation trajectories and reported to beat a far larger prior model, with checkpoints, notebooks and code made public.