Releases

DeepSeek released Janus 1.3B for multimodal understanding and image generation.

DeepSeek introduced the Janus family for unified multimodal understanding and generation.

Meta released research on a multimodal language model that freely mixes text and speech.

Perplexity launched Spaces and Internal Knowledge Search for organizing research and searching company files alongside the web.

Suno launched Scenes for creating soundtracks from photos and videos.

Mistral AI launched the Ministral 3B and 8B models for edge, on-device and local use.

Decagon raised a $65 million Series B led by Bain Capital Ventures, bringing total funding to $100 million.

Perplexity introduced dedicated finance capabilities for stocks, company earnings and market research.

Anthropic updated its Responsible Scaling Policy with revised capability thresholds, safety-case processes, and governance measures.

CoreWeave secured a $650 million revolving credit facility from a syndicate of major banks to support global expansion.

Amazon introduced generative-AI shopping guides that summarize category information and organize product recommendations.

Anthropic launched asynchronous batch processing for large volumes of Claude API requests.

Sierra launched full-duplex voice capabilities for customer-facing AI agents.

Meta introduced foundation models for video generation, personalized video, editing and synchronized audio.

OpenAI introduced Canvas, a collaborative interface for writing and coding projects in ChatGPT.

Black Forest Labs launched its first-party API for direct access to hosted FLUX models.

Black Forest Labs released FLUX1.1 [pro] with improved image quality, prompt adherence, and generation speed.

OpenAI closed a $6.6 billion funding round at a $157 billion post-money valuation.

Rogo reported 2.42 times the accuracy of ChatGPT on Patronus AI's FinanceBench evaluation.

Rogo reported partnerships and deployments with 25 investment banks, private-equity firms, and hedge funds.

Rogo reported that it had doubled headcount to approximately 30 employees.

Rogo raised an $18.5 million Series A led by Khosla Ventures, bringing disclosed funding to $26 million.

Speak launched Live Roleplays, an interactive practice format for real-world conversations with dynamic AI responses.

The LeRobot community introduced the SO-100, a low-cost open robot arm design for data collection and imitation learning.

OpenAI launched the Realtime API public beta for low-latency multimodal experiences.