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.
Seoul-based AI startup Datumo raised $15.5 million in Series B funding led by Salesforce Ventures to compete with Scale AI. Datumo aims to differentiate itself by providing automated AI model evaluation and safety tools for enterprises, and leveraging its unique licensed datasets.
NVIDIA unveiled a robotics development suite at SIGGRAPH 2025, featuring the Cosmos Reason model and other advanced simulation tools. Major companies are already adopting NVIDIA's technologies to accelerate the development of physical AI applications across trillion-dollar industries.
Ukraine has launched the AI Factory initiative to build domestic AI infrastructure and develop a national large language model, aiming to achieve digital sovereignty and become a top-three AI nation by 2030.
ElevenLabs' Eleven Music is an AI music generation service that has reportedly been trained on properly licensed data. However, its commercial viability remains uncertain due to its restrictive terms of service, which contradict some public claims about commercial use permissions.
Genie 3 is a real-time world model that generates 3D environments that remain coherent for minutes at a time and can be customized using "promptable world events. DeepMind has highlighted Genie 3's potential for creating new training and education opportunities for a wide variety of agents.
OpenAI's very busy week, from its funding round to its model launches; Clay's $100M Series C; Lovable's new unicorn status; Latent Labs' new no-code web interface; Google DeepMind's Aeneas; FuriosaAI's new partnership with LG AI Research; and more
OpenAI has finally launched GPT-5, an AI system that combines a non-reasoning model, a reasoning model, and a router that determines which model should be used with each user query. GPT-5 is coming to all ChatGPT users and to OpenAI's API platform at staggeringly competitive prices.
Clay raised $100 million in Series C funding at a $3.1 billion valuation, as the company remains on track to bring in $100 million in revenue. The raised funding will be allocated to accelerate product development, as the company continues developing its "IDE for GTM".
OpenAI released its first open-weight models since 2019: the text-only gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b. This launch marks a strategic shift for the company, amid pressure from Chinese AI labs and the Trump administration's push for open U.S. AI technologies.
OpenAI raised $8.3 billion at a $300 billion valuation in a heavily oversubscribed round led by Dragoneer Investment Group, as the company's revenue surges toward $20 billion annually while navigating a complex restructuring from nonprofit to for-profit status.
Fundamental Research Labs raised $33M in Series A funding to develop autonomous AI agents that bring cutting-edge research to consumer products designed to work alongside humans. The company's products include a spreadsheet-based agent, "Shortcuts", and a general-purpose assistant, "Fairies".