GPT-5.3 Instant, OpenAI's most recent model update, brings improved conversational tone, flow, and relevance after widespread frustration with GPT-5.2's overbearing tone and unwarranted assumptions about its users' intent and emotional states.
OpenAI raised $110 billion at a $730 billion pre-money valuation from SoftBank, NVIDIA, and Amazon. The startup also secured strategic partnerships for infrastructure and scaling with Amazon and NVIDIA, as OpenAI continues to serve 900M weekly ChatGPT users and 1.6M weekly Codex users.
Accenture partnered with European AI leader Mistral AI to co-develop and scale enterprise-grade AI solutions globally, combining Mistral's sovereign models with Accenture's capabilities to help organizations deploy customizable AI systems with greater control and ownership.
Perplexity launched Computer, a cloud-based agentic tool exclusive to $200/month Max subscribers that orchestrates 19 AI models to execute complex, long-running workflows by automatically selecting the best model for each subtask.
Oura launched its first proprietary AI model designed specifically for women's health, which aims to offer personalized guidance on women's health based on an extensive in-house vetted knowledge base, as well as on biometric data and trends picked up by it sensors.
Freeform raised $67 million in Series B funding to scale its AI-powered metal 3D-printing platform, with its next-generation Skyfall system set to expand capacity 25x and produce thousands of kilograms of parts daily starting in 2026.
Anthropic raised $30 billion in Series G funding at a $380 billion valuation—more than doubling from $183 billion—driven by $14 billion in run-rate revenue and rapid adoption of Claude Code, which now accounts for 4% of all GitHub commits worldwide.
German synthetic data startup simmetry.ai raised €330,000 from NBank to expand its platform that generates photorealistic, annotated synthetic data for training computer vision models in agriculture, food production, and industrial applications.
OpenAI disbanded its mission alignment team, which communicated the company's mission to employees and the public, and reassigned its leader Josh Achiam to a new "chief futurist" role. Achiam described the new role as involving "studying how the world will change in response to AI".
Benchmark Capital raised $225 million through two special vehicles to invest in AI chipmaker Cerebras Systems' $1 billion Series H. backing the company's massive wafer-scale chips that compete with Nvidia.
Reddit is positioning AI-powered search as its next major growth opportunity. The company saw its Reddit Answers feature surging from 1 million to 15 million weekly users in 2025. Although Reddit's AI search is not yet monetized, the company called it "an enormous market and opportunity".
ElevenLabs raised $500 million at an $11 billion valuation, tripling its valuation from a year ago. The startup also reported $330 million in ARR from enterprise voice AI adoption, and ambitious plans to expand its presence in global markets as it builds momentum towards an eventual IPO.