Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati raises $2 billion in seed funding for Thinking Machines Lab, launching Tinker, a revolutionary tool that democratizes custom AI model creation by automating fine-tuning of advanced models like Meta's Llama for researchers, businesses, and hobbyists without requiring extensive technical expertise.
European startup Euclyd claims its new CRAFTWERK AI chip delivers unprecedented 1.024 exaflops performance with 100x better energy efficiency than current alternatives, though the ambitious specifications remain unverified by independent testing.
Tencent launches HunyuanImage-3.0, the world's largest open-source AI image generator with 80 billion parameters and revolutionary autoregressive architecture, featuring 64 experts in a Mixture of Experts design that delivers superior text-to-image generation with advanced world-knowledge reasoning capabilities.
DeepMind launches Gemini Robotics 1.5 featuring groundbreaking Motion Transfer technology that allows robots to instantly share learned skills across different platforms without retraining, splitting AI into separate systems for high-level reasoning and motor control while demonstrating successful skill transfers between multiple robot types.
RNA structure prediction remains far behind protein prediction as AlphaFold3 struggles with RNA's extreme flexibility, with only 7,759 RNA structures mapped versus 216,212 proteins, though most RNA therapeutics like mRNA vaccines rely on secondary structure which scientists can now predict with high accuracy.
Scientists develop groundbreaking 'manifold Muon' algorithm that prevents neural networks from breaking down during training by constraining weight matrices to maintain unit condition numbers, achieving higher accuracy than existing methods in early tests.
Meta hires former OpenAI strategic explorations leader Yang Song as research principal following Zuckerberg's aggressive summer recruitment of 11 top AI researchers from rival companies, even as several scientists simultaneously exit Meta's Superintelligence Labs for competitors.
Cutting-edge AI models now pass the grueling CFA Level III exam in minutes—a financial certification that demands 1,000 hours of human study—with researchers testing 23 language models and finding that advanced systems like o4-mini and Gemini 2.5 Pro successfully tackle complex analytical reasoning that stumped AI just two years ago.
NVIDIA unveils revolutionary Rubin CPX GPU platform delivering unprecedented 8 exaflops of AI performance and 100TB memory in a single rack, enabling million-token processing for advanced coding and video generation with 7.5x more power than current systems, launching late 2026.
OpenAI launches its first $500 billion Stargate data center in Abilene, Texas, announcing five additional sites across multiple states with over $400 billion investment planned to address AI's massive compute shortage while projecting $13 billion revenue this year.