Meta launched a dedicated Meta AI app
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 secures $93M for its code security platform tailored for the vibe coding era
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 acquires Metaplane to expand its AI-powered data observability capabilities
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's Grok has been getting some updates: a new canvas tool, memory, and vision
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 introduces Veo 2 for video generation in Gemini and Whisk
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, famous for its 'Stop Hiring Humans' campaign, raised a $25 million Series A
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 releases new reasoning models o3 and o4-mini amid intense competition
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.
Llama 4: Meta's first natively multimodal mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture models
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.
The biggest announcements from Google Cloud Next 25
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 secures a record-breaking $40 billion funding round
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.
Isomorphic Labs raised $600M in its first external funding round
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 raised a $308M Series D round following its Gen-4 video generation model launch
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.