Data Points

Meta’s 70-billion parameter Llama 3.3 beats 3.1 405B on some metrics. WorldLabs shows off its 3D world model. PaliGemma 2, Google’s open vision-language model. Could new AI models hide their true goals?

HunyuanVideo vies with Sora, etc. A new record for underwater robot speed. Apple partners with Amazon for search and inference. More publishers sign on with Perplexity.

U.S. shuts down more chips and tech to China. Claude’s Google Docs integration. Adobe’s MultiFoley generates sound for video. Canadian media companies sue OpenAI.

Jina updates CLIP embedding model. OLMo2 delivers state-of-the-art performance for smaller open models. Nvidia’s Fugatto produces a wide range of sounds. U.S. antitrust regulator takes a hard look at Microsoft.

Anthropic and Amazon strengthen their ties. Windsurf blends copilots with agents in one IDE. Mistral introduces Pixtral Large to its APIs and chat platform. H’s first product launch is a business agent.

Flux’s new image tools compete with Adobe and other photo apps. Qwen speeds up its 2.5 model while boosting context window. Rabbit launches Teach Mode in beta for its R1 devices. Banks embrace third-party AI, but want to control their data.

Google AI detects wildfires from satellite images. Baidu shows off image RAG, no-code tools, and smart glasses. ChatGPT apps link up with desktop coding tools. New LoRA tools improve image models’ consistency and text generation.

MLPerf tests show Nvidia’s Blackwell chips excel at training models. Google releases AlphaFold 3 code and parameters (with restrictions). DeepSeek’s two-way image model gets even better. Judge tosses copyright lawsuit against OpenAI.

FrontierMath’s hard math problems baffle models. Nvidia partners with Hugging Face’s robotics platform. Mistral offers multilingual text moderation. Grok teases free access for New Zealand’s X users.

Oasis builds interactive Minecraft-style games in real-time. Microsoft releases system to coordinate AI agents. OpenAI’s new predicted outputs feature speeds up generation. GitHub launches Spark, a platform to build and host micro-apps.

ChatGPT now includes an AI search engine. Upgrading data centers leaves behind too much trash. OmniParser works with vision models to read computer screens. Gallup poll shows most big companies’ workforces haven’t embraced AI.

Researchers find hallucinations in Whisper transcriptions. White House directs how security agencies should use AI. Jailbreaking LLM-enabled robots could have devastating effects. Google’s synthetic podcast tool Illuminate specializes in research papers.

Allegro, an open-source video generation model from Rhymes AI. Meta’s new quantized versions of Llama 3.2 1B and 3B. SynthID text, a new text watermarking tool. Meta’s Lingua and Self-Taught Evaluator, two model-training tools.

Spirit LM, an open-weights speech model from Meta. IBM’s open-source, 8–billion parameter Granite 3.0 8B Instruct. Google expands its music sandbox for pros and amateurs. A new leaderboard for smaller, quantized language models.

A new safety investigation of Tesla’s self-driving tech. Perplexity adds collaborative spaces and internal search. Nvidia’s new Nemotron model scores big on benchmarks. Telegram’s subculture of explicit deepfake generators.