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Carl Franzen

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Executive Editor at VentureBeat focused on the intersection of software, AI and media. Digital journalist and editorial strategist with more than 15 years of experience leading teams at Popular Science, The Verge, Vice, Inman, and more.
Remaining Windsurf team and tech acquired by Cognition, makers of Devin: ‘We’re friends with Anthropic again’

Remaining Windsurf team and tech acquired by Cognition, makers of Devin: ‘We’re friends with Anthropic again’

Carl Franzen July 14, 2025 11:46 AM
Elon Musk introduced Grok 4 last night, calling it the ‘smartest AI in the world’ — what businesses need to know
Analysis

Elon Musk introduced Grok 4 last night, calling it the ‘smartest AI in the world’ — what businesses need to know

Carl Franzen July 10, 2025 10:24 AM
HOLY SMOKES! A new, 200% faster DeepSeek R1-0528 variant appears from German lab TNG Technology Consulting GmbH

HOLY SMOKES! A new, 200% faster DeepSeek R1-0528 variant appears from German lab TNG Technology Consulting GmbH

Carl Franzen July 3, 2025 6:32 AM
From pilot to profit: The real path to scalable, ROI-positive AI

From pilot to profit: The real path to scalable, ROI-positive AI

Carl Franzen June 27, 2025 1:00 PM
OpenAI’s API lead explains how enterprises are already succeeding with its Agents SDK and Responses API

OpenAI’s API lead explains how enterprises are already succeeding with its Agents SDK and Responses API

Carl Franzen June 27, 2025 11:02 AM
How Highmark Health and Google Cloud are using Gen AI to streamline medical claims and improve care: 6 key lessons

How Highmark Health and Google Cloud are using Gen AI to streamline medical claims and improve care: 6 key lessons

Carl Franzen June 27, 2025 10:24 AM
Creatio’s new 8.3 Twin CRM update hits Salesforce where it hurts: ‘we don’t think of AI as an add-on…it’s just part of our app experience’

Creatio’s new 8.3 Twin CRM update hits Salesforce where it hurts: ‘we don’t think of AI as an add-on…it’s just part of our app experience’

Carl Franzen June 25, 2025 11:56 AM
Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan throws cold water on 1-person, billion-dollar startup idea at VB Transform: ‘more people allow you to grow faster’

Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan throws cold water on 1-person, billion-dollar startup idea at VB Transform: ‘more people allow you to grow faster’

Carl Franzen June 24, 2025 4:35 PM
Emergence AI’s CRAFT arrives to make it easy for enterprises to automate their entire data pipeline
Exclusive

Emergence AI’s CRAFT arrives to make it easy for enterprises to automate their entire data pipeline

Carl Franzen June 24, 2025 8:00 AM
Musk’s attempts to politicize his Grok AI are bad for users and enterprises — here’s why
Opinion

Musk’s attempts to politicize his Grok AI are bad for users and enterprises — here’s why

Carl Franzen June 23, 2025 10:29 AM
Mistral just updated its open source Small model from 3.1 to 3.2: here’s why

Mistral just updated its open source Small model from 3.1 to 3.2: here’s why

Carl Franzen June 20, 2025 3:51 PM
GenLayer launches a new method to incentivize people to market your brand using AI and blockchain

GenLayer launches a new method to incentivize people to market your brand using AI and blockchain

Carl Franzen June 19, 2025 3:00 AM
OpenAI open sourced a new Customer Service Agent framework — learn more about its growing enterprise strategy

OpenAI open sourced a new Customer Service Agent framework — learn more about its growing enterprise strategy

Carl Franzen June 18, 2025 3:30 PM
‘Surpassing all my expectations’: Midjourney releases first AI video model amid Disney, Universal lawsuit

‘Surpassing all my expectations’: Midjourney releases first AI video model amid Disney, Universal lawsuit

Carl Franzen June 18, 2025 11:23 AM
OpenAI moves forward with GPT-4.5 deprecation in API, triggering developer anguish and confusion

OpenAI moves forward with GPT-4.5 deprecation in API, triggering developer anguish and confusion

Carl Franzen June 17, 2025 2:52 PM
Qodo teams up with Google Cloud to provide devs with FREE AI code review tools directly within platform
Exclusive

Qodo teams up with Google Cloud to provide devs with FREE AI code review tools directly within platform

Carl Franzen June 17, 2025 6:10 AM
MiniMax-M1 is a new open source model with 1 MILLION TOKEN context and new, hyper efficient reinforcement learning

MiniMax-M1 is a new open source model with 1 MILLION TOKEN context and new, hyper efficient reinforcement learning

Carl Franzen June 16, 2025 3:46 PM
How can you make sure your brand shows up in LLM search? Adobe’s new LLM Optimizer seeks to provide the tools

How can you make sure your brand shows up in LLM search? Adobe’s new LLM Optimizer seeks to provide the tools

Carl Franzen June 16, 2025 10:14 AM
Do reasoning AI models really ‘think’ or not? Apple research sparks lively debate, response

Do reasoning AI models really ‘think’ or not? Apple research sparks lively debate, response

Carl Franzen June 13, 2025 3:02 PM
Senator’s RISE Act would require AI developers to list training data, evaluation methods in exchange for ‘safe harbor’ from lawsuits

Senator’s RISE Act would require AI developers to list training data, evaluation methods in exchange for ‘safe harbor’ from lawsuits

Carl Franzen June 13, 2025 7:59 AM
AlphaSense launches its own Deep Research for the web AND your enterprise intelligence — here’s why it matters

AlphaSense launches its own Deep Research for the web AND your enterprise intelligence — here’s why it matters

Carl Franzen June 10, 2025 5:49 PM
Mistral’s first reasoning model, Magistral, launches with large and small Apache 2.0 version

Mistral’s first reasoning model, Magistral, launches with large and small Apache 2.0 version

Carl Franzen June 10, 2025 11:55 AM
OpenAI announces 80% price drop for o3, it’s most powerful reasoning model

OpenAI announces 80% price drop for o3, it’s most powerful reasoning model

Carl Franzen June 10, 2025 11:08 AM
Sam Altman calls for ‘AI privilege’ as OpenAI clarifies court order to retain temporary and deleted ChatGPT sessions

Sam Altman calls for ‘AI privilege’ as OpenAI clarifies court order to retain temporary and deleted ChatGPT sessions

Carl Franzen June 6, 2025 10:48 AM
How much information do LLMs really memorize? Now we know, thanks to Meta, Google, Nvidia and Cornell
Analysis

How much information do LLMs really memorize? Now we know, thanks to Meta, Google, Nvidia and Cornell

Carl Franzen June 5, 2025 8:35 AM
OpenAI’s Sora is now available for FREE to all users through Microsoft Bing Video Creator on mobile

OpenAI’s Sora is now available for FREE to all users through Microsoft Bing Video Creator on mobile

Carl Franzen June 2, 2025 12:01 PM
ElevenLabs debuts Conversational AI 2.0 voice assistants that understand when to pause, speak, and take turns talking

ElevenLabs debuts Conversational AI 2.0 voice assistants that understand when to pause, speak, and take turns talking

Carl Franzen May 30, 2025 3:00 PM
Which LLM should you use? Token Monster automatically combines multiple models and tools for you

Which LLM should you use? Token Monster automatically combines multiple models and tools for you

Carl Franzen May 30, 2025 11:35 AM
Emotive voice AI startup Hume launches new EVI 3 model with rapid custom voice creation

Emotive voice AI startup Hume launches new EVI 3 model with rapid custom voice creation

Carl Franzen May 29, 2025 11:50 AM
DeepSeek R1-0528 arrives in powerful open source challenge to OpenAI o3 and Google Gemini 2.5 Pro

DeepSeek R1-0528 arrives in powerful open source challenge to OpenAI o3 and Google Gemini 2.5 Pro

Carl Franzen May 29, 2025 6:22 AM
Anthropic debuts Claude conversational voice mode on mobile that searches your Google Docs, Drive, Calendar

Anthropic debuts Claude conversational voice mode on mobile that searches your Google Docs, Drive, Calendar

Carl Franzen May 27, 2025 4:23 PM
Mistral launches API for building AI agents that run Python, generate images, perform RAG and more

Mistral launches API for building AI agents that run Python, generate images, perform RAG and more

Carl Franzen May 27, 2025 11:52 AM
OpenAI updates Operator to o3, making its $200 monthly ChatGPT Pro subscription more enticing

OpenAI updates Operator to o3, making its $200 monthly ChatGPT Pro subscription more enticing

Carl Franzen May 23, 2025 2:51 PM
Anthropic faces backlash to Claude 4 Opus behavior that contacts authorities, press if it thinks you’re doing something ‘egregiously immoral’

Anthropic faces backlash to Claude 4 Opus behavior that contacts authorities, press if it thinks you’re doing something ‘egregiously immoral’

Carl Franzen May 22, 2025 12:12 PM
Time Magazine appears to accidentally publish embargoed story confirming new Anthropic model

Time Magazine appears to accidentally publish embargoed story confirming new Anthropic model

Carl Franzen May 22, 2025 8:26 AM
OpenAI updates its new Responses API rapidly with MCP support, GPT-4o native image gen, and more enterprise features

OpenAI updates its new Responses API rapidly with MCP support, GPT-4o native image gen, and more enterprise features

Carl Franzen May 21, 2025 8:30 AM
Mistral AI launches Devstral, powerful new open source SWE agent model that runs on laptops
Exclusive

Mistral AI launches Devstral, powerful new open source SWE agent model that runs on laptops

Carl Franzen May 21, 2025 7:57 AM
Google finally launches NotebookLM mobile app at I/O: hands-on, first impressions

Google finally launches NotebookLM mobile app at I/O: hands-on, first impressions

Carl Franzen May 20, 2025 12:29 PM
Is your AI app pissing off users or going off-script? Raindrop emerges with AI-native observability platform to monitor performance

Is your AI app pissing off users or going off-script? Raindrop emerges with AI-native observability platform to monitor performance

Carl Franzen May 19, 2025 11:09 AM
OpenAI launches research preview of Codex AI software engineering agent for developers — with parallel tasking

OpenAI launches research preview of Codex AI software engineering agent for developers — with parallel tasking

Carl Franzen May 16, 2025 8:00 AM
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