Microsoft announced new AI features for Windows 11, including wake and goodbye words for Copilot Voice, global availability of Copilot Vision, and experimental agentic capabilities through Copilot Labs and Windows Insiders that enable autonomous task completion and third-party service integrations.
Supabase, an open-source Postgres development platform competing with Firebase, raised $100M in a Series E funding round led by Accel and Peak XV. With this round, Supabase reached a $5B valuation, representing a more than fivefold increase in value since its Series C in September 2024.
Knapsack raised $10 million in Series A funding to expand its Intelligent Product Engine, which claims to compress product development cycles from months to days through AI-driven, centralized design and code infrastructure.
OpenAI announced interactive apps from major companies like Spotify, Canva, and Zillow that integrate directly into ChatGPT conversations, along with a new Apps SDK for developers to build similar applications.
Firecrawl, an open-source web crawling platform used by 350,000 developers, raised $14.5 million in Series A funding to improve AI's access to web data while building a marketplace that pays content creators when their work is used to train AI systems.
DeepMind's Genie 3 preview; ElevenLabs' Eleven Music launch; Ukraine launches a sovereignty-preserving AI Factory, NVIDIA's new resources for robotics applications; Datumo raises a Series B to become a contender in the training data market; and much more.
Spanish AI startup Multiverse Computing released two ultra-small AI models called SuperFly (94M parameters) and ChickBrain (3.2B parameters) that can run offline on devices from smartphones to IoT appliances while matching or exceeding the performance of their larger parent models.
Estonian medtech startup Better Medicine raised a pre-seed €1M round to expand the EU rollout of its CE-certified AI kidney cancer detection tool and prepare for U.S. market entry. Better Medicine aims to address critical radiologist shortages with its AI-powered lesion detection solutions.
Ai2 released MolmoAct, the first open-source Action Reasoning Model that can "think" in 3D space for robotics applications, achieving state-of-the-art performance while being trained more efficiently than competing models from major tech companies.
Anthropic acquired the Humanloop team, including its three co-founders and a dozen engineers, in an acqui-hire to strengthen its enterprise AI strategy with expertise in prompt management, LLM evaluation, and AI observability tools.
Cohere raised $500 million at a $6.8 billion valuation to accelerate its security-first enterprise AI platform, adding former Meta AI research head Joelle Pineau as Chief AI Officer and former Uber acting CFO Francois Chadwick as CFO.
Continua, founded by former Google Distinguished Engineer David Petrou, raised $8 million in seed funding to develop AI agents that can naturally participate in group chats on SMS, iMessage, and Discord, helping coordinate tasks and reduce conversation chaos.