DeepSeek unveils DeepSeek V3.1, a 685-billion parameter open-source AI model rivaling OpenAI and Anthropic, integrating chat, reasoning, and coding into one model with global access and breakthrough performance at a fraction of the cost.
Anthropic unleashes Claude Sonnet 4 with 1 million token context window at higher pricing; Bessemer identifies two AI startup classes: fast 'Supernovas' and sustainable 'Shooting Stars'; security risks emerge in Model Context Protocol adoption, necessitating new threat models.
Grammarly unveils eight AI writing assistants that provide intelligent, tailored support for specific writing challenges, allowing users to maintain control and authenticity while integrating the AI agents directly into their writing process through the new docs surface.
Grammarly unveils 9 AI assistants for comprehensive writing support, offering insights, feedback, citation help, subject expertise, proofreading, plagiarism checking, and AI-generated text detection within its AI-native Docs writing surface, signaling a shift towards a broader AI productivity suite.
Most enterprise generative AI pilots fail to boost revenue quickly, with only 5% achieving rapid growth, as successful deployments require specialized tools and strategic partnerships over internal development.
Qwen-Image-Edit, a groundbreaking image editing model, revolutionizes the field with its semantic and appearance editing capabilities, achieving state-of-the-art performance in tasks like object rotation, style transfer, and precise text editing while preserving original visual elements, allowing step-by-step chained editing for progressive error correction.
AWS sparks outrage among developers as it hikes the pricing for its AI-powered coding assistant Kiro, with the new plans costing substantially more than initially promised, leading to backlash over the 'wallet-wrecking' changes.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledges the AI market is in a bubble reminiscent of the 1990s dot-com boom, even as his unprofitable company seeks $6 billion at a staggering $500 billion valuation amid expert warnings that AI overvaluation now exceeds the internet bubble.
ChatGPT's mobile app generates a staggering $2 billion in global consumer spending, dwarfing competitors like Grok, Claude, and Copilot with an average revenue of $2.91 per install, dominating the mobile AI market.
Open weight large language models reveal inconsistent performance across hosted providers, with those running the latest vLLM framework generally outperforming older versions, while conformance suites and compatibility tests aim to ensure consistent implementation.