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Every few weeks, a new model steps up and claims best-in-class at something. The launch chart makes the case, the link makes the rounds, and your team is back to the question nobody has time for: shou

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Google debuts Google AI Edge Foresight, a local macOS note-taking app for meetings that uses its 740M-parameter EmbeddingGemma 2 model and Gemma 4 assistant — Earlier in April

Introducing Mistral Large 4: Le chonk Mistral are back in the game. Today they're releasing a preview of Mistral Large 4, a 1 trillion parameter, 49 billion active parameter model trained on their own

As customers modernize to lakehouse architectures, they are standardizing on open formats such as Apache Iceberg to create a shared data estate across compatible engines. This enables you to build AI-

Across the public sector, the question has shifted from “what’s possible?” to “how can we drive mission impact?” We’ll be answering this question at the Google Public Sector Summit on October 20th at

For years, Swift was perceived mainly as a UI language tied to Apple client devices. With the release of Swift 6 and strict concurrency checking, Swift has matured into a premier systems with cloud en

Latin America’s small and medium-sized businesses are the heartbeat of the region's economy — accounting for more than 60% of total employment in the region, according to United Nations estimates. And

Following our announcement of Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking last week, we are thrilled to share that Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar is now generally available in Gemini Enter

Google Cloud has become the platform of choice for startups building AI. Our uniquely complete stack — including a choice of first- and third-party compute and models; our platform for building and ma

NV‑Reason‑CT is a purpose‑built vision‑language model for volumetric CT that uses a full 3‑D Vision Transformer encoder coupled with a Qwen 3.5‑4B language model to generate radiologist‑style chain‑of

To build and deploy sophisticated robotics applications that can perceive, reason and act in dynamic environments, developers need new physical AI models and tools. The ROS open framework is a project

NVIDIA TensorRT’s multi‑device inference lets a single TensorRT network span multiple GPUs using NCCL‑backed collectives, preserving all standard optimizations and supported from TensorRT 11.0 onward.

Editor’s note: Today we hear from SeaVerse, a gaming startup from SeaArt that is building a platform for playable AI experiences, where users can open lightweight games, character chats, and interacti

Anthropic’s planned initial public offering, potentially valuing the company at up to $2 trillion, will be examined under a novel governance model that places an external Long‑Term Benefit Trust (LTBT

World Labs Inc., the high-profile and well-funded artificial intelligence startup co-founded by the renowned computer vision pioneer Fei-Fei Li, has just dropped Atlas, which promises to be a game-cha

Robotics perception startup Lyte AI Inc. today announced it has raised 165 million in a Series C round led by Maverick Silicon, bringing the company’s post-money valuation to 1.6 billion. Since its st

COMPASS is a scalable cross‑embodiment robot navigation framework that builds on NVIDIA’s X‑Mobility pretrained policies, adding lightweight RL fine‑tuning specialists for new robot‑scene pairs to avo

High-fidelity image-to-3D generation requires a 3D representation that captures both geometry and appearance. To support relighting and integration into standard rendering pipelines, the representatio

The reinforcement learning (RL) ecosystem is rapidly adopting Ray as the unified compute runtime for complex post-training workflows. Across Google Cloud, we see customers using Ray for workloads rang

IBM has released Granite 4.2, an open‑source agentic AI model that adds native reasoning, tool use, coding instruction following and speech capabilities to enterprise agents. The suite of pre‑built mo

An artificial intelligence startup called Hypercubic Inc. is taking on the problem of modernizing legacy applications written in the COBOL programming language after raising 5.3 million in seed fundin

Learn how to build a multi-agent document classification solution on Amazon Bedrock using the Strands Agents SDK. Three specialized agents combine textual analysis with Claude Haiku 4.5 and visual sim

Abhinaya Prabhu / Tech Funding News: SF-based Vals, which develops evaluations and benchmarks to test AI models on real-world tasks, raised a 40M Series A led by a16z at a 400M valuation — - Vals AI r

@alibaba_qwen: Alibaba releases weights for Qwen3.8 models under Apache 2.0 license, including Qwen3.8-27B, which it says beats Qwen3.7-Plus and excels in real-world coding — We promised open weights

IBM has introduced **DocLang**, a new markup language specifically designed for large‑language models (LLMs). Developed by lead researcher Peter Staar and IBM’s document‑parsing team, DocLang aims to

Modern enterprises possess a vast amount of unstructured data, yet they frequently encounter significant challenges in managing and extracting value from it. Historically, unlocking the insights hidde

LWiAI Podcast #253 (July 29 2026) covers a roundup of recent AI developments: Anthropic introduced Claude Opus 5 with Fable‑like capabilities; Google released Gemini 3.6/3.5 “Flash” variants and a cyb

On July 27 2026 Moonshot AI released **Kimi K3**, a 2.8‑trillion‑parameter Mixture of Experts model that is the first open‑weight system in the 3‑trillion‑parameter class. The architecture—using Kimi

Gemini Robotics ER 2 helps robots reason, collaborate, and solve real-world tasks. It represents a step change in video understanding, tool orchestration, and multi-robot collaboration for robotic app

The Together AI platform’s dedicated inference architecture consists of three immutable entities: **configs** (engine, GPU type/count, parallelism and optimization profile), **deployments** (a specifi

Today’s data lakehouse is no longer mere data repository, but increasingly a system of action, actively executing tasks via always-on, autonomous AI agents. Rather than waiting for static reports, the

Healthcare robotics struggles with data scarcity, limited generalization to rare clinical scenarios, and slow prototyping due to the need for annotated demonstrations and costly experimental setups. N

The automotive industry is moving from building hardware-centric platforms toward building their own sophisticated Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) architectures. For OEMs, a vehicle is no longer just a

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Great creative happens when your tools move at the speed of your ideas. To help you create rich, reliable experiences while reducing regeneration time and costs, we’re adding two new models to Gemini

In this post, we show how pairing Amazon Nova 2 Lite with Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4.6 delivers an efficient solution for digitizing scanned documents at scale. We built a two-model pipeline on Amazo

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Claude Fable 5, Anthropic’s latest frontier model, is now generally available on Google Cloud. This launch is the latest proof point of our ongoing commitment to bring the industry's latest models str

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NVIDIA Cosmos 3 is a frontier foundation model for physical AI that combines physical reasoning, world generation, and action generation within a single open model. The model uses a Mixture-of-Transfo

NVIDIA Cosmos 3 uses a mixture-of-transformers architecture that pairs a reasoning transformer with a generation transformer, enabling it to understand object interactions and spatial-temporal relatio

AI agents possess incredible reasoning capabilities and can perform increasingly complex actions. But the reliability of agentic outcomes depends entirely on the quality of the context they can access

Video agent models represent the next frontier in AI by extending language model capabilities to process, understand, and act on video content in real-time, enabling autonomous agents to perceive and

Google I/O 2026 featured several new AI model releases including Gemini 3.5 Flash, an Omni model codenamed NanoBanana for video processing, Spark for background agent tasks, and Antigravity 2.0. These

Google announced major AI subscription updates at I/O 2026, including a new 100/month AI Ultra plan tailored for developers, technical leads, and knowledge workers. This tier offers 5x higher usage li