AI robotics startup Generalist raises $200M just two months after a $400M round, surpassing a $2 billion valuation, with backers including Nvidia and Bezos Expeditions fueling its mission to build smarter 'robot brains.'
Anthropic launches a $5 million grant program funding independent research into AI's impact on user wellbeing, offering clinicians, psychologists, and methodologists funding, model access, and technical support, with applications due September 21.
Revolut launches a dedicated AI division and unveils PRAGMA, a proprietary foundation model built with NVIDIA, reporting a 65% fraud detection boost, 2.3x credit risk accuracy improvement, and 41% better personalized recommendations across 80 million customers in over 40 markets.
FreeToken is revolutionizing local AI by enabling anyone with a gaming PC to run massive 290B+ parameter AI models at interactive speeds, using an open-source inference engine with smart CPU-GPU co-execution and semantic caching — no expensive cloud subscription required.
Perplexity and Nvidia launch Portable Computer, a fully local AI agent platform running entirely on users' own hardware that eliminates cloud costs, targeting privacy-sensitive industries like law, healthcare, and finance — though it currently requires 24GB VRAM and is limited to Linux machines with RTX GPUs.
Anthropic unifies Claude's memory systems across Chat and Cowork, enabling real-time, bidirectional context sharing by default for Free, Pro, and Max users, while automatically excluding sensitive topics like health and politics from storage.
JD.com launches JoyAI-Echo, an open-source AI platform featuring two groundbreaking tools: Echo-LongVideo, capable of generating up to 5-minute multi-shot audio-visual content, and Echo-WM, an omnimodal world model that simultaneously evolves video, sound, music, and speech in response to real-time navigation inputs.
Vercel Connect is now generally available, replacing risky long-lived credential tokens with short-lived, auto-expiring tokens for AI apps, featuring 100+ connectors for services like Slack, GitHub, and Shopify, plus new RBAC controls, audit logs, and token observability across all plans.
Apple unveils two groundbreaking chips — the M6, its first 2-nanometer processor, and the record-breaking M5 Ultra with quad-die architecture and 512GB unified memory — delivering unprecedented on-device AI performance across the new Mac mini and Mac Studio lineups.
FastVideo, a new open-source framework, delivers a groundbreaking 50x video generation speedup across NVIDIA GPUs, Apple Silicon, and cloud platforms, featuring sparse distillation, LoRA finetuning, and real-time inference capabilities, with recent updates adding synchronized video-audio generation and Apple Silicon-optimized models.