Bain Capital Ventures (BCV) has raised $1.6 billion for its latest venture fund, marking a significant new commitment to artificial intelligence and the infrastructure required to support increasingly capable AI systems. The fund, its 11th, reflects a broader shift taking place across venture capital: investors are moving beyond applications built around existing AI models and increasingly looking toward the computing infrastructure, autonomous agents, physical systems, healthcare...

The artificial intelligence infrastructure market is entering a new phase in which the battle is no longer defined solely by access to the fastest general-purpose AI accelerators. Cloud providers increasingly want silicon designed around specific workloads, power constraints, networking requirements, and economic models. Qualcomm’s new long-term agreement with Amazon reflects this shift, bringing the chipmaker deeper into hyperscale data centers while giving Amazon another avenue for...

Artificial intelligence video generation is entering a new stage. The first generation of generative video systems demonstrated that AI could create visually impressive clips from text and images. The next challenge is far more demanding, giving creators precise control over continuity, camera movement, editing decisions, visual references and production workflows. Google's Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash is designed around that transition. Released as a production-oriented update to Gemini Omni, the...