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".
Google has launched Gemini 2.5 Pro, its most intelligent "thinking model" to date. The model leads in reasoning and coding benchmarks, and features a 1M token context window. Gemini 2.5 Pro is now available for Gemini Advanced users, with Vertex AI integration coming soon.
Browser Use has raised $17 million in seed funding, led by Felicis Ventures, to build infrastructure that converts website interfaces into structured text. This will enable AI agents to navigate the web more effectively and reliably than vision-based approaches.
The ARC Prize Foundation has officially released the ARC-AGI-2 to challenge current foundation models and help track progress towards AGI. Additionally, the Foundation has opened the ARC Prize 2025, running from Mar 26 to Nov 3, with a $700K Grand Prize for an 85% scoring solution on the ARC-AGI-2.
Hugging Face has released HuggingSnap, an iOS app that runs SmolVLM2 locally and efficiently to enable visual understanding and text-based generative AI tasks, such as answering questions about an image or identifying and describing objects from visual input.
Highlights from the Nvidia GTC 2025 keynote, OpenAI's new tools for building agents, Gleamer's recent acquisitions, and OpenAI's decision to invest in CoreWeave as tensions with Microsoft continue to rise.
NVIDIA and Alphabet/Google announced at GTC they are expanding their AI collaboration, focusing on advanced hardware, responsible AI development, robotics innovation, and transformative applications in fields like drug discovery and energy management.
NVIDIA's new Blackwell Ultra platform delivers significantly enhanced AI computing power for reasoning and agentic AI applications. Introduced yesterday at GTC, Blackwell Ultra is expected to be adopted by Nvidia's cloud and manufacturing partners.
NVIDIA has launched the open Llama Nemotron family of reasoning AI models that deliver up to 20% improved accuracy and 5x faster inference compared to competitors, designed to help developers and enterprises build advanced AI agents.
OpenAI has launched a comprehensive suite of new tools including the Responses API, built-in capabilities for web search, file search, and computer use, and an open-source Agents SDK—all designed to make it significantly easier for developers to build AI agents.