Runway launched GWM-1, its first general world model family with three variants for explorable environments, conversational avatars, and robotic training. The company also updated its video generation model, Gen-4.5, with native audio generation and multi-shot editing capabilities.
Unconventional AI, a two-month-old startup founded by former Databricks AI chief Naveen Rao, raised $475 million at a $4.5 billion valuation to develop biology-inspired, energy-efficient computers for AI workloads.
AWS re:Invent 2025's agentic AI keynote introduced episodic memory for Bedrock AgentCore, Amazon Nova Act for managing agent fleets at scale, reinforcement fine-tuning capabilities, and checkpointless training on SageMaker HyperPod to make building trustworthy AI agents faster and easier.
AWS re:Invent 2024 showcased major AI advancements including the 3-nanometer Trainium 3 chip, Nova 2 foundation models, three new autonomous Frontier Agents for coding, DevOps, and security, and Database Savings Plans offering up to 35% cost reductions.
Warner Music Group settled its copyright lawsuit with AI music startup Suno and formed a licensing partnership that gives artists control over how their work is used in AI-generated music, while Suno acquired WMG's Songkick platform and will launch new licensed models in 2026.
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.5, its most capable model for coding and agents with state-of-the-art performance on software engineering benchmarks, dramatically improved token efficiency, and reduced pricing to $5/$25 per million tokens.
Google has launched Nano Banana Pro, a new image generation model built on Gemini 3 Pro that excels at creating accurate, legible text in multiple languages and offers advanced creative controls with up to 4K resolution output.
Google has launched Gemini 3, its most intelligent AI model, featuring state-of-the-art reasoning and multimodal capabilities. The company also announced Gemini 3 Deep Think mode and the Antigravity development platform for agentic coding.
Sakana AI raised $135 million at a $2.65 billion valuation to develop resource-efficient, Japan-optimized AI models as an alternative to the large-scale model race dominated by U.S. tech giants.
Google Maps has launched AI-powered tools including a builder agent and MCP server that enable developers to create interactive map projects using text prompts and connect AI assistants to Maps data.
Mercor raised $350 million at a $10 billion valuation to expand its platform that connects AI labs with domain experts for model training, now paying over $1.5 million daily to more than 30,000 contractors.
Anyscale and Microsoft have announced a fully managed Azure service built on Ray, designed to help enterprises accelerate the development and scaling of AI workloads.