Scrunch AI recently exited beta with $4M in seed funding from Mayfield to help businesses maintain visibility in AI-generated search results. Scrunch AI has seen promising adoption, having already secured 25 enterprise customers, including Lenovo and Crunchbase.
Cohere for AI released the Aya Vision models (8B/32B), which support 23 languages, perform remarkably well in image captioning, visual Q&A, and translations, and outperform competitors in benchmarks. Aya Vision is available via Cohere Playground, WhatsApp, Kaggle, and Hugging Face.
Anthropic announced earlier this week that it has secured $3.5B in a Series E funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with new and existing investors participating. This Series E announcement follows the Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code launches.
OpenAI has released GPT-4.5, its largest AI model to date, featuring improved knowledge and emotional intelligence. But while GPT-4.5 is a clear improvement over GPT-4o, it falls behind the o series in benchmark evaluations and comes with dramatically higher costs.
Anthropic launches Claude 3.7 Sonnet, the first hybrid reasoning AI that offers both quick responses and visible step-by-step thinking. It excels at coding tasks and comes with Claude Code, a new terminal tool for developers.
xAI launched Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini with reasoning capabilities and a DeepSearch agent. Shortly after their release, the models sparked controversy when xAI compared their consensus-based math scores to competitors' single-attempt metrics, highlighting ongoing issues with benchmark comparisons.
Meta announced LlamaCon, its first developer conference for its generative AI ecosystem on April 29. The LlamaCon announcement follows a year of rapid Llama model releases that gained 650M+ downloads and 85,000+ derivatives.
Mistral AI has launched Mistral Saba, a language model optimized for Arabic that works well with Indian-origin languages, positioning the startup to expand its presence in Middle Eastern and South Asian markets.
Lingo.dev, a startup offering AI-powered UI localization automation for developers, has secured $4.2 million in seed funding to provide comprehensive app, database, and website translation services beyond simple text conversion.
Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati has launched Thinking Machines Lab, a new AI startup focused on making artificial intelligence more customizable and accessible while advancing AI capabilities, with a team of prominent AI researchers from OpenAI and other leading companies.
Arize AI has raised $70 million in Series C funding to expand its AI evaluation and observability platform. Arize's platform helps companies ensure their AI systems work reliably in real-world applications by empowering them with testing, debugging, and optimization tools.
Perplexity has launched Deep Research, a free AI-powered research tool that can analyze hundreds of sources in minutes to create comprehensive reports across various domains, promising to save users significant research time.