Covering Scientific & Technical AI | Friday, June 5, 2026

valuation

GPT-5 Arrives As OpenAI Explores $500B Valuation and Ships Open Models

It’s been a monumental week for OpenAI. Tuesday saw the release of a new open weight family of models, gpt-oss. Midweek, news broke that the company is in talks ...Full Article

Inside Perplexity’s $9B Valuation and Its Legal Struggles

Perplexity, the AI search engine platform, is reportedly finalizing the details of a new funding round that will boost its valuation to a staggering $9 billion. This would triple ...Full Article