AI inference chip startup Etched surges to a $5 billion valuation after closing a $500 million funding round, backed by Peter Thiel, Geoffrey Hinton, and Fei-Fei Li, while securing $1 billion in contract orders as it takes direct aim at Nvidia's dominance in the booming AI chip market.
Wix-owned vibe-coding platform Base44 launches Base1, a custom AI model trained on tens of millions of real user interactions, aiming to outperform competitors in speed and efficiency as the vibe-coding market heats up with rivals like Lovable hitting $500 million in ARR and frontier labs like Anthropic encroaching on the …
Moondream's new Photon inference engine eliminates GPU idle time through pipelined decoding, boosting vision-language model throughput by up to 35% on NVIDIA B200 hardware and achieving near-realtime inference at approximately 33ms.
Google launches Nano Banana 2 Lite and Gemini Omni Flash, delivering lightning-fast, low-cost AI image and video generation for developers and consumers, with images produced in just 4 seconds and video output available at $0.10 per second.
Anthropic launches an internal drug discovery program targeting neglected diseases and unveils Claude Science, a new AI tool for drugmakers, positioning itself as a hands-on healthcare player alongside tech giants like Alphabet, Apple, and Amazon.
AWS launches a $1 billion Forward Deployed Engineering initiative, embedding thousands of AI experts directly within customer teams to co-build and deploy agentic AI solutions in days rather than months, with major partners like the NFL, Southwest Airlines, and the NBA already seeing rapid results.
Google's Gemini Omni Flash leads a fiercely competitive Text-to-Video AI leaderboard with a top score of 1527, but Chinese tech giants ByteDance and Alibaba are closing the gap fast, claiming second and third place respectively among 41 competing models.
Anthropic's new Claude Tag agent launches inside Slack, letting users assign tasks and build institutional knowledge — directly threatening Salesforce's $800M Agentforce platform, even as Salesforce publicly promotes the rival tool it helped fund.
DeepSeek releases DSpark, a free open-source AI framework that boosts large language model inference speeds by up to 85% using confidence-scheduled speculative decoding, delivering over 50% throughput gains in live production and supporting popular open-weight models like Qwen and Gemma.
Google Cloud launches SandboxAQ's quantitative AI models and a new Gemini for Science suite, giving enterprise and research teams powerful tools to accelerate drug discovery, materials science, and semiconductor R&D by combining scientific numerical AI with Gemini's reasoning capabilities.