Lovable, a Swedish AI vibe coding startup, achieves unicorn status with $200M Series A funding, amassing over 2.3 million active users and 180,000 paying subscribers in just 8 months since launch, envisioning itself as a tool for creating production-grade applications underpinning full-fledged businesses.
OpenAI announces plans to monetize its AI chatbot ChatGPT by integrating an eCommerce checkout system, allowing sellers to complete transactions within the platform and paying a commission to OpenAI on sales made through ChatGPT.
Decart, a startup, unveils Mirage, an AI model capable of transforming live video in real-time, generating 20 frames per second with low latency, enabling users to create and modify videos through an upcoming website and app.
OpenAI integrates Shopify checkout into ChatGPT, aiming for $10B revenue stream from commissions on sales despite $5B losses last year.
Gemini Code Assist unveils agent mode, an AI pair programmer that analyzes codebases and proposes controlled, multi-file changes, enhancing IDEs with context control, responsive chat, and revertible checkpoints.
Chile leads a groundbreaking initiative, Latam-GPT, a multilingual AI model trained on over 8 terabytes of data from 30 Latin American and Caribbean institutions, embracing regional diversity by including Indigenous languages and dialect variants.
OpenAI researchers Jason Wei and Hyung Won Chung depart for Meta's superintelligence lab, amid an AI talent war where Meta offers up to $300 million over four years to top AI talent.
Ex-Google AI pioneers unveil a software-savvy agent trained to comprehend the software building process, inching closer to superintelligent AI by enabling more capable software assistants.
Meta and AWS join forces to empower 30 US startups building AI applications on Meta's open-source Llama platform, providing $200,000 in AWS cloud credits and technical support as Meta aims to make Llama the leading platform for AI app development.
In a surprising move, Anthropic rehires Boris Cherny and Cat Wu, key leaders behind its coding product Claude Code, just two weeks after they departed for Anysphere, the company behind Cursor.