FuriosaAI secured a major partnership with LG AI Research to power their EXAONE AI models with superior energy-efficient chips, just months after rejecting Meta's $800 million acquisition offer.
AI-powered compliance startup Delve has raised a $32 million Series A at a $300 million valuation. After pivoting from healthcare AI to automate regulatory compliance workflows, the startup now serves over 500 companies, including AI unicorn Lovable.
Latent Labs has made its new frontier model for binding generation, Latent-X, available through a no-code web platform. With Latent-X, Latent Labs aims to accelerate the costly drug design process by drastically shortening the time needed to identify potential binders for novel proteins.
Swedish AI coding startup Lovable became Europe's fastest-growing unicorn in just eight months, raising $200M at a $1.8B valuation. Additionally, Lovable has reached $100M ARR, largely due to its 2.3 million users who have created over 10 million projects using its no-code platform.
The AI Collective hosted an event showcasing Manus AI's "AI-native operating system for knowledge work," featuring keynotes, live demos of the platform creating slide decks and study guides, and discussions about how the startup differentiates itself from major AI companies like OpenAI.
OpenAI and DeepMind's IMO gold medal claim, Manus AI for Everybody — An AI Collective event, xAI and Thinking Machines Lab's funding rounds, Wimbledon players criticize AI-powered line calling, Moonvalley's "ethical" video generation model, Cloudflare's new "pay per crawl" system, and more.
Mira Murati's AI startup Thinking Machines Lab, staffed with former OpenAI executives, raised a record-breaking $2 billion seed round at a $12 billion valuation to develop "multimodal AI that works with how you naturally interact with the world."
Mistral has upgraded its Le Chat chatbot with Deep Research mode, multilingual reasoning, and enterprise-focused on-premises data integration capabilities, positioning the platform as a serious competitor to OpenAI and Google in the AI assistant market.
Mistral launched Voxtral, its first open-source AI audio models that offer production-ready speech understanding with multilingual support and advanced capabilities, positioning itself as an affordable alternative to expensive proprietary systems at less than half the price.
OpenAI launched ChatGPT agent, a unified AI system that can autonomously complete complex real-world tasks from start to finish using its own virtual computer, combining web browsing, research, and action capabilities while maintaining user control and safety safeguards.
A study by METR found that AI coding tools increased completion time by 19% for experienced developers working on complex, mature codebases, despite the developers predicting a 24% time reduction.
xAI has launched Grok 4, a model capable of impressive benchmark scores on recent tests, including Humanity's Last Exam and ARC-AGI-2. Grok 4 was launched alongside a $300 subscription tier, which will unlock early access to new features, including Grok 4 Heavy.