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.
Google Cloud Next '25 showcased powerful new hardware like Ironwood TPUs, advanced models across all modalities, a comprehensive multi-agent ecosystem, and purpose-built AI agents delivering tangible business results across customer service, creative work, data analysis, coding, and security.
OpenAI has secured a record-breaking $40 billion funding round led by SoftBank, valuing the company at $300 billion, with plans to advance AI research and scale infrastructure as ChatGPT reaches 500 million weekly users.
AI drug design company Isomorphic Labs has secured $600 million in funding led by Thrive Capital to accelerate development of its AI platform, expand partnerships with pharmaceutical giants, and advance therapeutic programs into clinical trials.
Runway has released Gen-4, its most advanced AI video generation model yet, shortly before announcing it secured $308 million in Series D funding, positioning the company as a major player in the evolving AI media creation landscape despite legal challenges and industry disruption concerns.
Amazon unveiled Nova Act, an AI model for browser-based task completion. Available as a research preview, Nova Act prioritizes reliability in executing simple commands rather than higher-level workflows as the key to unlock genuine AI agents that are both capable and autonomous.
Microsoft launched two AI reasoning agents for 365 Copilot. Researcher handles complex research using multiple sources, while Analyst functions as a data scientist to transform raw data into insights. The agents will roll out this month as part of a new program called "Frontier".