FutureHouse has launched a platform featuring four "superintelligent" AI agents—Crow, Falcon, Owl, and Phoenix—designed to help scientists navigate the overwhelming volume of research literature through research capabilities that reportedly outperform both frontier models and PhD-level researchers.
Chinese AI agent startup Manus has secured a $75M investment led by Benchmark, quintupling its valuation to nearly $500M. The funding will reportedly enable Manus to take its AI agent to global markets, including the US, Japan, and the Middle East.
Wikimedia Foundation unveiled a new AI strategy that prioritizes enhancing human contributors rather than replacing them. The strategy focuses on supporting human editors while maintaining Wikipedia's commitment to providing freely accessible knowledge to anyone in the world.
Ghent-based medical imaging startup Nuclivision has secured €5 million in seed funding to commercialize its AI software platform that enables faster, safer, and more affordable PET scans for cancer and Alzheimer's detection.
Meta just launched a standalone Meta AI app powered by Llama 4 that focuses on offering more natural voice conversations and can leverage user data from Facebook and Instagram to provide tailored responses.
Endor Labs has raised $93M to expand its application security platform with new features: the AI Security Code Review, which uses specialized AI agents to detect security issues in pull requests, and an MCP Server that integrates into coding assistants to enable live vulnerability scans.
Datadog has acquired AI-powered data observability startup Metaplane to expand its capabilities in monitoring complex data workflows. Metaplane will be rebranded and will continue to service its customers until integration into the Datadog platform is completed.
xAI is expanding Grok's capabilities with camera-based object recognition, persistent memory, and a canvas for collaborative document creation, bringing the chatbot closer to competitors like ChatGPT and Gemini.
Google has launched Veo 2, an advanced AI video generation model that creates high-resolution, realistic 8-second videos from text prompts, now available to Google One AI Premium subscribers through both Gemini Advanced and the Whisk creative experiment.
Artisan secured $25 million in Series A funding to develop fully autonomous AI employees that replace repetitive work. Artisan's first product is Ava, an AI Business Development Representative that handles tasks in the outbound sales process autonomously.
OpenAI has launched o3 and o4-mini, which combine sophisticated reasoning capabilities with comprehensive tool integration. These devices enable users to use web searches, Python programming, visual analysis, and image generation more effectively to solve complex problems than their predecessors.
Meta has released the Llama 4 models—Scout and Maverick—featuring native multimodality, mixture-of-experts architecture, and state-of-the-art context lengths. Meta also previewed Behemoth, a trillion-parameter model that supposedly outperforms GPT-4.5 and Claude 3.7 Sonnet on STEM benchmarks.