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".
Google Labs launched Opal, an experimental no-code platform that enables users to build and share AI mini-applications by describing workflows in natural language, which the tool then converts into powerful AI-powered applications.
Julius AI has raised $10 million in seed funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners to expand its natural language data analysis platform. Julius AI can generate insights and visualizations by simply asking questions in plain English.
Italian startup IdentifAI raised €5 million in Series A funding to expand its real-time deepfakes and synthetic content detection platform. IdentifAI's mission has become critical in a world where the explosive growth of AI continues to erode our trust in digital content.
Google DeepMind's Aeneas AI model revolutionizes ancient history research by analyzing Roman inscriptions with 73% accuracy in text restoration and helping historians find contextual parallels in seconds rather than weeks.
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.