ChatGPT surges with over 2.5 billion daily requests, 330 million from US users, posing a major threat to Google's search dominance as OpenAI prepares to release an AI-powered web browser.
Microsoft unveils initiatives to enhance multilingual language models across Europe, addressing underrepresentation of European languages in web data used for training, offering grants, cloud resources, and engineering support to improve LLM performance for non-English languages.
Groundbreaking AI models from OpenAI and Google DeepMind achieve gold medal-level performance at the prestigious International Mathematical Olympiad, solving complex problems and providing natural language proofs, marking a milestone in general-purpose AI for math and reasoning.
DeepSeek V3, OLMo 2, and Gemma 3 unleash groundbreaking transformer models, harnessing techniques like Multi-Head Latent Attention, QK-norm, and sliding window attention for improved efficiency, stability, and reduced memory footprint.
AI search startup Perplexity partners with telecom giant Bharti Airtel to offer free $200 Pro subscriptions to 360 million users in India, where downloads have surged 600% year-over-year as the company aggressively expands into its largest market by user count.
Meta unveils a groundbreaking AI framework, MTTT, that enables models to learn how to learn at test time, removing the need for human-designed self-supervised tasks and outperforming linear attention on long sequences while maintaining linear complexity.
Meta acquires PlayAI as voice AI ignites fierce competition, fueling a surge in investment with companies racing to secure conversational AI capabilities through acquisitions of startups like ElevenLabs, Cresta, and Cartesia amid rapid technological advancements enabling natural voice interaction.
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.
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.
OpenAI expands ChatGPT's capabilities to include native Excel and PowerPoint file editing, data-driven report generation, and a potential web browser integration, enhancing its document creation and online data access.