Mistral, a French AI startup rivaling OpenAI, secures a staggering €2 billion at a $14 billion valuation, fueling the European AI boom with its open-source language models and chatbot Le Chat, as European AI startups gain momentum with a 55% surge in Q1 2025 investments.
Switzerland unveils Apertus, a 100% open, multilingual AI model built by public institutions for public good, trained on over 1,000 languages with transparency and compliance as core principles, demonstrating generative AI can be powerful and open.
AI technology personalizes sports highlights into immersive video reels called My Daily Story, understanding fan engagement through machine learning to fine-tune recommendations and creating cohesive video packages by modifying metadata descriptions with generative AI.
xAI faces an exodus as CFO Mike Liberatore, general counsel Robert Keele, senior lawyer Raghu Rao, co-founder Igor Babuschkin, and former X CEO Linda Yaccarino resign after a $10 billion fundraise and concerns over xAI's chatbot Grok.
Melania Trump highlights the importance of teaching AI literacy to students from an early age, stating 'the robots are here,' as the White House emphasizes AI in K-12 education for American competitiveness, with major tech firms pledging new commitments to the initiative.
Atlassian acquires The Browser Company to launch Dia, an AI-powered browser tailored for knowledge workers, enhancing SaaS app experience with contextual work data and AI assistance, merging Atlassian's collaboration prowess with The Browser Company's browser expertise.
DeepSeek unveils an advanced AI agent model capable of carrying out multi-step actions with minimal direction, aiming to rival OpenAI's capabilities by the end of 2025 following the success of its R1 model.
AI researchers discover a distinct 'light-bulb' moment when language models transition from relying on word positions to comprehending meaning, a breakthrough that could lead to more robust and explainable artificial intelligence.
Pipecat, an open-source Python framework, unleashes real-time voice and multimodal AI conversational agents with ultra-low latency interaction by integrating speech recognition, text-to-speech, AI services, and various transports.
ElevenLabs unveils AI Music Generator, instantly composing original, high-quality soundtracks tailored to any video's tone and emotion, enabling effortless commercial video scoring without music editing.