Amazon CEO Andy Jassy promotes 27-year company veteran Peter DeSantis to head a newly formed AI division encompassing Nova models, silicon development, and quantum computing as longtime Alexa chief Rohit Prasad announces his departure.
Allen Institute for AI launches Bolmo, revolutionary language models that process raw UTF-8 bytes directly without tokenizers, offering superior multilingual capabilities and handling of text errors through innovative 'bytefying' technology that transforms existing models cost-effectively.
NVIDIA unveils Nemotron 3 AI models featuring revolutionary hybrid mixture-of-experts architecture that delivers 4x higher throughput and slashes inference costs by 60%, with major companies like ServiceNow, Oracle, and Zoom already integrating the technology across manufacturing, cybersecurity, and software development applications.
Google launches upgraded Gemini 2.5 Flash Native Audio featuring live speech-to-speech translation across 70+ languages while preserving speaker intonation, now rolling out to enterprise customers and beta users in the US, Mexico, and India.
Google Translate unveils Gemini AI-powered translations that better handle slang and idioms across nearly 20 languages, plus launches revolutionary real-time speech translation through headphones for over 70 languages while expanding language learning tools to 20 new countries.
Google launches Vids, an AI-powered video creation tool that uses Gemini AI to generate complete videos from simple text prompts, featuring 8-second clip creation, AI avatars, and collaborative editing capabilities now available to Workspace users.
Zoom AI shatters the previous record on Humanity's Last Exam with a groundbreaking 48.1% score, beating Google's benchmark through revolutionary federated AI technology that combines multiple language models, signaling a major leap toward advanced workplace automation capabilities.
Thinking Machines Lab launches Tinker platform featuring Kimi K2 Thinking, a trillion-parameter AI model with advanced vision capabilities that outperforms traditional models in image processing and classification tasks with limited data.
TIME crowns AI Architects as 2025 Person of the Year as Jensen Huang's Nvidia reaches $5 trillion valuation, Trump launches $500 billion Stargate initiative, and Chinese breakthrough DeepSeek intensifies global AI race while ChatGPT hits 800 million weekly users amid growing concerns over mental health and job displacement.
Meta contemplates abandoning its open-source AI strategy with the closed-source 'Avocado' model while CEO Mark Zuckerberg restructures operations amid major executive departures including chief AI scientist Yann LeCun and internal conflicts over competing with OpenAI versus improving social media platforms.