It's AI Time

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 350 Gemini 2.5: Our most intelligent AI model: Gemini 2.5 Pro, an advanced AI model, is leading LMArena benchmarks by a significant margin. It enhances performance and accuracy through improved reasoning capabilities. The model "thinks" by analyzing information and making informed decisions, building on Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking advancements. Announcing ARC-AGI-2 and ARC Prize 2025: The ARC Prize has launched ARC-AGI-2, a challenging benchmark aimed at advancing general AI systems. Current AIs score significantly lower compared to humans. The accompanying ARC Prize 2025 competition, hosted on Kaggle with a $1 million prize pool, aims to drive open-source innovation by rewarding efficiency and capability in solving ARC-AGI-2 tasks. Mobile-VideoGPT: A lightweight multimodal video model under 1B parameters that features dual visual encoders and token pruning for real-time inference on edge devices. Awesome Vision-to-Music Generation: A curated...

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 349 H&M is now using AI “digital twins” of real models to show off clothes. These 3D avatars are made from photos and styled virtually - no need for stylists, makeup, or full photoshoots. It cuts production costs but raises concerns, similar to the 2023 actors' strike over digital cloning.  Otter just upgraded your meetings. Its new voice-activated Meeting Agent can answer questions, schedule tasks, and even draft emails - all in real time, right inside your Zoom calls, expansion to other platforms coming in the near future.  Figure 02 robots just learned to walk like humans - thanks to an AI brain trained fully in simulation. No manual tuning needed when switching to the real world.  Midjourney and NYU built new tricks for AI writing. Now, models pick creative and rare responses - without repeating the same boring answers over and over.  Bill Gates says we’re entering an era of “free intelligence” - where expert-level tutoring and med...

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 348 Pony.ai has become the first company in China to receive a permit to operate fully driverless taxis with no safety driver or staff onboard in central Shenzhen, specifically Nanshan District. This is a big step toward building a revenue-generating robotaxi business in China's "Silicon Valley." PwC has launched "agent OS," a powerful AI operating system designed for intelligent automation across enterprises. It connects multiple AI agents, streamlines workflows, and integrates tools from different platforms to create scalable and modular processes. North Korea is expanding its production of AI-powered drones called "loitering munitions." These drones act like guided missiles, autonomously seeking targets and crashing into them with a warhead. The U.S. has blacklisted over 50 Chinese tech companies, aiming to limit Beijing's AI and chip capabilities. The companies are accused of advancing AI, supercomputers, and ...

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 346 Amazon Launches Interests for Personalized Shopping: Amazon has introduced an AI-powered feature that tailors product discovery based on user-defined prompts that automatically surfaces relevant items and deals. OpenAI adopts rival Anthropic's standard for connecting AI models to data: OpenAI will support Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) across its products, enhancing AI models' data-driven capabilities. MCP, an open-source standard, allows AI models to connect with various data sources like business tools and software. Companies like Block, Replit, and Sourcegraph have adopted MCP. OpenAI plans to share more about its integration soon. Elon Musk's Grok AI lands on Telegram, gaining access to over 1 billion users: A new era for search and chat: Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, is now available on Telegram, offering its sarcastic assistant to over 1 billion users. Bundled with Telegram Premium, Grok expands beyond X, enhanc...

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 345 OpenAI's Improved Image Generation: OpenAI's GPT-4o introduces improved image generation with precise text rendering, instruction following, and multi-turn editing. DeepSeek-V3-0324 Release with MIT License: DeepSeek has released its new V3-0324 model, which outperforms GPT 4.5 in most benchmarks and features major improvements in performance. Qwen 2.5 32B Vision Language Model: Qwen has released a strong vision language model that is open and can run reasonably well on consumer hardware. Modifying Large Language Model Post-Training for Diverse Creative Writing: Midjourney has released some work to improve diversity in creative writing models. It was able to post-train a small 7B model that outperforms much larger open and closed models in creative writing.

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 344 Introducing Together Chat: use DeepSeek R1 for free, hosted in North America: Together Chat has launched a free consumer app that offers seamless interaction with top open-source models, including the new DeepSeek R1 for advanced reasoning. It supports web crawling, code generation with Qwen Coder 32B, and image creation using Flux Schnell, all accessible via a Progressive Web App. Roblox's new AI model can generate 3D objects: Roblox has open-sourced Cube 3D, an AI model that can generate 3D objects from text prompts, to enhance creation efficiency. Cube 3D uses tokenization techniques and is trained with licensed and publicly available datasets, plus Roblox experience data. Future iterations will incorporate multimodal inputs like images and videos. New Reve Image Generator Beats AI Art Heavyweights MidJourney and Flux at a Penny Per Image: Reve Image 1.0, an AI image generator, offers competitive pricing and impressive prompt adherence, rea...

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 343 OpenAI and MIT Exploring AI and Emotional Well-Being: MIT Media Lab and OpenAI are exploring how users engage emotionally with ChatGPT, examining its impact on social and emotional well-being. The study highlights the diverse ways people use AI conversational models and sets the stage for further research on responsible AI interactions. Hugging Face Real-Time Endpoint Analytics: Hugging Face has revamped its analytics dashboard, which now features real-time updates for monitoring AI inference endpoints. The improved system ensures faster data loading and instant insights into request latency, error rates, and performance metrics. Perplexity's Plan for Rebuilding TikTok in America: Perplexity AI envisions a TikTok that prioritizes deep content discovery and truth-seeking powered by an advanced answer engine. It plans to enhance the platform's utility while maintaining its core function as a hub for creative expression. OpenAI exec leaves to...

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 342 OpenAI just launched o1-pro, a powerful AI model costing 10 times more than the standard o1 - $150 per million tokens for input and $600 for output. The Pixel 9a, priced at $499, features the Google Tensor G4 chip and Gemini Nano 1.0 XXS AI, but its 8GB RAM limits its AI capabilities compared to flagship models. A $1 million March Madness bracket challenge pits AI against pro gambler Sean Perry. The goal is to show AI’s data-driven predictions can beat human guesses. AI, like Claude, has advanced from solving basic cybersecurity challenges to tackling more complex ones, including CTF (Capture The Flag) challenges, but is still at undergraduate-level expertise and behind expert humans in tasks like reverse engineering and reconnaissance. Zora AI, developed by Deloitte, follows Deloitte Trustworthy AI principles to ensure security, transparency, and reliability. It offers autonomous agents to improve business functions like finance, sales, and cust...

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 341 Oracle announced the launch of Oracle AI Agent Studio, helps businesses create, deploy, and manage AI agents within Oracle Fusion Cloud. It can create multiple AI agents that can team up with humans to handle complex, multi-step tasks.  inait teams up with Microsoft to scale its digital brain AI, built on 20 years of neuroscience research. It mimics how real brains learn to perform intelligent tasks.  OpenAI just dropped GPT-4o-mini-TTS, a new model for super realistic text-to-speech and accurate speech-to-text. It’s part of their big plan to build “agentic” AI - smart systems that can handle multi-step tasks on their own. Think of an AI agent that can talk directly to customers and solve problems without human help.  Google AI and UC Berkeley researchers introduced “inference-time search” - a smarter way to scale AI. It generates multiple answers at once, then picks the best one for better accuracy and results.  OpenAI found that its ...

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 340 OpenAI Next-Gen Audio Models: OpenAI has introduced new speech-to-text and text-to-speech models in its API, improving transcription accuracy and enabling customizable voice outputs for more natural and expressive speech agents. Synchron's Brain-Computer Interface Now Has Nvidia's AI: Neurotech company Synchron's Nvidia-powered brain-computer interface enables individuals with paralysis to control their home environment using the Apple Vision Pro headset. Synchron's BCI implants translate brain activity into commands, with improved speed and accuracy through Nvidia's Holoscan platform. By developing a cognitive AI based on brain data, Synchron aims for a scalable BCI system that offers more autonomous control for users with minimal training. What does OpenAI really want from Trump?: OpenAI's proposal to the White House seeks to bypass state AI laws like California's SB 1047 by leveraging federal trade laws against China...

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 339 Anthropic's Red Team Warns of AI Security Risks: AI models are rapidly advancing in cybersecurity and biology, approaching expert-level knowledge in some areas. While current risks remain manageable, the company warns that stronger safeguards will be needed as capabilities progress. Google's AI Health Innovations Announced at The Check Up 2025: Google highlighted how AI is driving health advancements globally, from diagnostic tools to research collaborations, at The Check Up 2025. The company aims to enhance medical accessibility and improve patient outcomes through AI-driven innovations. Inside Zoom's AI evolution: From basic meeting tools to agentic productivity platform powered by LLMs and SLMs: Zoom is expanding beyond video conferencing by developing an agentic AI infrastructure that transforms meetings into action-oriented workflows. This includes AI Companion 2.0, with features like task management and document creation, and cus...

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 338 Google updates Gemini app: Google has released a number of key features like Canvas, Audio overview, and coding assistant to its Gemini app and web browser. Roblox Open-Sources Its Generative 3D Model: Roblox introduces Cube, its generative AI system for 3D and 4D model generation. A beta version of Cube 3D mesh generation will be integrated into Roblox Studio and as a Lua API. AI search is starting to kill Google's ‘ten blue links': Adobe reported a 1,300% rise in AI search referrals for retailers during the 2024 holiday season, indicating a shift from traditional search engines. Engagement metrics show users from AI search stay longer and bounce less compared to traditional referral users. Despite early mishaps, AI search continues to gain traction, with significant consumer use for shopping and research. Stable virtual camera: Stability AI has released a great multiview camera system that allows for novel view synthesis. It is powerful...

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 337 Mistral Small 3.1: Building on Mistral Small 3, this new model comes with improved text performance, multimodal understanding, and an expanded context window of up to 128k tokens. The model outperforms comparable models like Gemma 3 and GPT-4o Mini while delivering inference speeds of 150 tokens per second. Court Rejects Elon Musk's Attempt to Halt OpenAI: A court dismissed key claims in Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, rejecting his preliminary injunction request. UiPath looks for a path to growth with Peak agentic AI acquisition: UiPath has acquired Peak.ai to enhance its AI and automation services for specific verticals, notably in retail and manufacturing. Despite recent revenue challenges and a downgraded forecast, UiPath aims to capitalize on Peak's decision-making AI capabilities to boost cross-selling opportunities and capture more market share. The acquisition reflects a strategic shift as UiPath seeks to integrate AI advan...

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 336 Google Assistant is Replaced by Gemini: Google Assistant is transitioning into Gemini, a more personalized and AI-driven assistant designed to integrate with apps and services while leveraging generative AI. Google's Response to U.S. AI Policy: Google outlines its vision for U.S. AI policy, advocating for investments in AI infrastructure, streamlined government adoption, and international pro-innovation standards to maintain leadership in the AI space. Sakana claims its AI-generated paper passed peer review: Japanese AI startup Sakana used its AI Scientist-v2 to generate a paper accepted at an ICLR workshop but withdrew its post-initial review due to transparency concerns. Though Sakana highlights AI's potential, critics argue that human judgment was crucial and acceptance was facilitated by higher workshop acceptance rates. Skeptics remain wary, emphasizing AI's technical flaws and the need for established norms to prevent degrading the ...

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 335 CEO of Anthropic, is worried about espionage, particularly by Chinese spies, targeting AI companies in the U.S. He believes these spies are after valuable “algorithmic secrets” that could be worth up to $100 million, hidden in just a few lines of code. OpenAI has released a policy proposal describing the Chinese AI lab DeepSeek as "state-subsidized" and "state-controlled" and suggests that the U.S. government consider banning models from DeepSeek and other similar People’s Republic of China (PRC)-supported operations as part of the "AI Action Plan." Anthropic has made several updates to the Claude 3.7 Sonnet API to help developers increase throughput and reduce token usage by up to 70%, with early users reporting an average reduction of 14%. X user @EHuanglu shared eight cool examples of what people have created with Manus' viral AI agent. These include an Apple-style website and an app that helps you prep for pre...

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 334 Manus AI can be your personal travel planner – This chatbot crafts a 3-day Hanoi trip under 15M VND (about $590), using human-like skills! It thinks (plans, tracks, recovers from errors), searches across multiple engines, and browses websites to extract info, book, and suggest activities. Whether your budget is modest or big, it ensures you have the best trip possible. You can view its process here. Anthropic is doing well this year with strong revenue, thanks to its role in powering the popular new app, Manus. Their business is growing fast as a result. Despite having 21 billion parameters, which is smaller than many other models, Reka Flash 3 performs exceptionally well, especially for tasks like general chat, coding, and following instructions. It is competitive with larger proprietary models like OpenAI’s o1-mini, making it a great choice for low-latency applications. Sam Altman shared that OpenAI has trained a new model that's really good...

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 333 OpenAI Pushes for Lighter AI Regulation Under Trump: OpenAI is lobbying the Trump administration for minimal AI regulation, emphasizing the need for rapid innovation while raising concerns about AI competition from China. The company aims to shape the upcoming AI Action Plan drafted by the government. Gemini gets personal, with tailored help from your Google apps: Google's Gemini now offers personalization through its experimental Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking model. It integrates with your Google apps, starting with Search, to tailor responses based on your past searches. Future expansions will include personalization with Photos and YouTube, enhancing AI assistance by understanding user preferences. Transforming Game Asset Creation With Genies' AIGC-Powered System: Game Art Forge has introduced AI-generated templates to streamline game asset creation, enhancing speed, scalability, and creative control for developers. It allows customization ...

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 332 Transforming Game Asset Creation With Genies' AIGC-Powered System - Genies: Game Art Forge introduces AI-generated templates to streamline game asset creation, enhancing speed, scalability, and creative control for developers. It allows customization while maintaining consistency and supports both indie developers and larger teams. By combining AI efficiency with human creativity, it ensures high-quality, adaptable workflows for game development. AI Scientist's First Publication: The AI scientist from Sakana Labs has its first reviewed and accepted publication. It generated the idea, conducted experiments, and wrote a novel paper that was accepted to an ICLR workshop. Google's new open weights model: Google has released the weights and a technical report for the Gemma 3 model. This model, which comes in four sizes, is approximately as performant as Gemini 1.5 Pro. It also has a strong understanding of 140+ languages. It seems to be clo...

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 331 OpenAI Introduces New Tools for AI Agents: OpenAI has launched new APIs and an Agents SDK to help developers build AI agents more easily. The toolkit includes web and file search, computer use capabilities, and observability tools to streamline agent orchestration and task automation. Reka's New Reasoning Model: Reka has open-sourced Reka Flash 3, a 21B parameter general-purpose model optimized for reasoning, chat, coding, and instruction following. It performs competitively with proprietary models and features a 32k context length, making it suitable for low-latency and on-device applications. AI Market Summary & Conclusions: The AI industry is evolving rapidly, with OpenAI's GPT-4.5 focusing on refinement, Google's Gemini 2.0 facing adoption hurdles, and China's DeepSeek and Kimi pushing the limits of affordable, specialized AI. Meta is expanding AI into wearables and robotics, while XAI's Grok 3 remains a niche competitor. ...

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 330 CoreWeave secures $11.9B contract with OpenAI: CoreWeave has signed a five-year, $11.9B cloud computing deal with OpenAI ahead of its IPO, with OpenAI set to acquire a stake in the Nvidia-backed AI startup. DeepSeek isn't taking VC money yet: DeepSeek's founder Liang Wenfeng is avoiding external investments to retain control, leveraging profits from his hedge fund, High-Flyer, for funding. Despite its success, DeepSeek faces challenges like strict Chinese data laws and chip import restrictions due to U.S. export controls. Although DeepSeek has so far avoided outside capital, there is potential for future investment as the company starts shifting towards monetization. Detecting misbehavior in frontier reasoning models: This is a report from OpenAI on monitoring the chain of thought of advanced reasoning models. Frontier reasoning models exploit loopholes when given the chance. It shows that it is possible to detect exploits using an LLM to ...

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 329 Stability AI Secures Investment for AI-Driven Content: Stability AI has announced a strategic partnership and investment from WPP, aiming to integrate generative AI into advertising and media production. The US Army Is Using ‘CamoGPT' to Purge DEI From Training Materials: The US Army's TRADOC is using an AI tool, CamoGPT, to identify and remove DEIA references from training materials per an executive order by President Trump. CamoGPT, developed by the Army's AI Integration Center, scans documents for specific keywords and has about 4,000 users. The initiative is part of a wider government effort to eliminate DEIA content, leveraging AI for increased efficiency in aligning with national security objectives. OpenAI's ex-policy lead criticizes the company for 'rewriting' its AI safety history: Former OpenAI researcher Miles Brundage criticized the company for downplaying its cautious approach with GPT-2, which he claims aligns...

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 328 A federal judge in Oakland has denied Elon Musk’s request for a preliminary injunction in his lawsuit against OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Microsoft. However, the judge’s ruling signals that Musk’s case has substantial legal merit, setting the stage for a high-stakes courtroom battle in late 2025.  Light-R1-32B is a new AI model built for solving advanced math problems. It has 32 billion parameters, but the real shocker? It was trained for just $1,000 and it still beats bigger models like DeepSeek-R1.  OpenAI might start charging up to $20,000 a month for specialized AI agents. And it’s not hard to see why they lost $5 billion last year just keeping things running.  Amazon is developing a new AI model with hybrid reasoning, meaning it can provide quick answers while also handling more complex, multi-step problems.  Salesforce just launched a platform where companies can find ready-made AI agents or build their own using templates. Users can...

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 327 Newnal AI is a bold AI-powered device that pulls in your personal data from Google, Meta, medical records, even your finances to train an AI that knows you inside out. Your digital twin lives on a mini screen above the main display, ready to assist. QwQ-32B is a 32-billion parameter AI model that rivals DeepSeek-R1, which has 671 billion parameters (with only 37B activated). In Y Combinator’s Winter 2025 batch, 25% of startups have 95% of their codebases generated by AI, with minimal human input. This shift aligns with the rise of "vibe coding", a concept introduced by Andrej Karpathy, where developers use natural language and instincts instead of manually writing code. DuckDuckGo’s AI search and chatbot Duck.ai are out of beta, now pulling info from across the web. Users stay in control AI results appear only 20% of the time, with privacy protections built in. Google Cloud’s Future of AI: Perspectives for Startups report shares key ...

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 326 Google's AI Mode: While the naming might be slightly confusing, the product preview launch from Google shows the direction they want to pursue with AI-enabled search systems. Upgraded Anthropic Console: Anthropic has revamped its console to streamline AI deployment with Claude models. New features include shareable prompts, extended thinking for Claude 3.7 Sonnet, and enhanced tools for evaluating and optimizing AI-generated responses. Google Co-founder Larry Page's New AI Startup: Larry Page is working on Dynatomics, an AI-driven manufacturing startup focused on generating optimized designs and automating factory production. Open Multilingual Large Language Models Serving Over 90% of Global Speakers: Babel is a multilingual LLM supporting 25 of the most spoken languages, covering 90% of the global population. It expands its parameter count through a layer extension technique that elevates its performance ceiling. Cohere Launches Aya Visi...

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 325 OpenAI Introduces Next Gen AI: OpenAI has unveiled Next Gen AI, a suite of advanced tools designed to boost developers' efficiency in building AI applications. The new offering features enhanced model performance and streamlined integration options, facilitating a wide range of use cases. This initiative aims to empower developers to innovate faster and more effectively in the evolving AI landscape. QwQ 32B reasoning model: The Qwen team has trained an open weight, Apache 2.0, licensed model that performs on par with DeepSeek R1 and better than many of the larger distill models. They found that by building on outcome based rewards with formal verification and test-case checks, the model can continuously improve at math and code. Also, by mixing in general instruction following data later in RL training, the model can still align with human preference. Sofya Uses Llama for Healthcare AI: Sofya leverages Llama models to streamline medical AI wor...

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 324 CoreWeave to Acquire Weights & Biases: CoreWeave has announced plans to acquire Weights & Biases for $1.7B. The integration aims to accelerate AI innovation by combining CoreWeave's cloud infrastructure with Weights & Biases' AI tools for model training and evaluation. The acquisition is expected to close in the first half of 2025, pending regulatory approval. Amazon's AI Reasoning Model: Amazon is developing an AI model with advanced reasoning capabilities under its Nova brand. Set to launch as early as June, the model is expected to use a hybrid reasoning architecture similar to Claude 3.7 Sonnet and aims to be more cost-efficient than competitors. Cohere's Vision Model: Cohere For AI has introduced Aya Vision, a vision model designed to enhance AI's multilingual and multimodal capabilities. It supports 23 languages. Google's AI Innovations in Healthcare: Google is advancing AI in healthcare with models like ...

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 323 Anthropic raises Series E at $61.5B post-money valuation: Anthropic raised $3.5 billion at a $61.5 billion valuation led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and others. The funds will advance AI development, expand compute capacity, and accelerate international growth. Its Claude platform is transforming operations for companies like Zoom, Pfizer, and Replit. T-Mobile's parent company is making an ‘AI Phone' with Perplexity Assistant: Deutsche Telekom announced its upcoming Perplexity chatbot-powered AI Phone, set to launch later this year. The device will utilize Magenta AI, offering users tools like Perplexity Assistant, Google Cloud AI, and others. Some AI features will also be integrated into the existing MeinMagenta app for other smartphones. On-Device Generative Audio with Stability AI & Arm: Stability AI and Arm bring real-time generative audio to smartphones using Stable Audio Open and Arm KleidiAI libraries, achieving a 30x speedup ...

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 322 DeepSeek releases revenue information: DeepSeek released its inference and revenue numbers at the end of its open source week. The company offers many services for free - if it monetized every token, it would make $200m or so in yearly revenue with healthy margins. Inception emerges from stealth with a new type of AI model: Inception, a Palo Alto startup, has developed a diffusion-based large language model, DLM, which significantly accelerates AI text generation compared to traditional LLMs. Founded by Stanford's Stefano Ermon, the company claims its models are faster, more cost-effective, and offer up to 10x improved performance. It has secured investment from Mayfield Fund and attracted several Fortune 100 customers, offering various deployment options and an API. Anthropic used Pokémon to benchmark its newest AI model: Anthropic tested its Claude 3.7 Sonnet AI model by having it play Pokémon Red, showcasing its "extended thinking...

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 321 DeepSeek plans to launch its R2 AI model before May, after shaking up the industry with its low-cost, high-performance R1 model. Nvidia has already lost nearly $600 billion in market cap since R1's launch. Amazon finally launched Alexa+, a more conversational, AI-powered assistant that manages tasks, controls smart homes, and shops for you. Free for Prime members. Alibaba’s Wan2.1 just topped VBench, beating OpenAI’s Sora and other rivals in video quality tests. It’s open-source, meaning developers can tweak and improve it a rare move for top AI models. Great news for the coder: Replit’s Agent v2 upgrade now uses Claude 3.7 for deeper coding decisions, making the AI assistant smarter, more efficient, and better at solving complex programming tasks. Trump shared an AI-generated video promoting a luxury resort in Gaza, weeks after saying he wanted to "clean out" the territory. Daily AI Fundraising: Auditoria.AI raised $38 million in ...

AI Edition - It's AI Time - 320 Exa’s Websets just changed the game! Instead of basic links, it uses AI agents to crush complex searches - 20x better than Google, 10x better than OpenAI Deep Research.  AI is being hyped as "superhuman," but the studies proving this claim are flawed. Researchers are rigging tests in AI’s favor by forcing humans to act like machines stripping away the social and emotional depth that makes human interactions meaningful.  Tencent joins the AI race! The company just launched Hunyuan Turbo S, claiming it’s faster and cheaper than DeepSeek.  Slack Clone in 1 Hour? Builder McKay Wrigley demos how to create a Slack alternative using Claude 3.7 Sonnet & Cursor Agent all in just about an hour.  AI Daily Fundraising: Snowflake is investing big in AI. The company plans to launch a Silicon Valley AI Hub and invest $200 million in AI startups. AWS is offering $1 million in free Snowflake credits to support new AI projects.