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.
Slack unveils an AI-powered enterprise search feature, centralizing knowledge across conversations, data, and third-party apps, providing personalized, permission-aware results and transforming scattered information into complete answers with context.
Mistral unveils Voxtral, a groundbreaking open source AI audio model offering affordable speech transcription and understanding capabilities for businesses, available in two variants for production and local deployments.
Amazon unveils Kiro, an AI-powered IDE streamlining the prototype-to-production pipeline, leveraging Claude's language models for spec-driven development with user stories, design documents, and automated task management, now in public preview with free and paid tiers.
NotebookLM unveils curated notebooks from partners, enabling interactive exploration of diverse topics like science, literature, travel guides, and expert advice through questioning and grounded responses.
In an escalating tech talent war, Google acquires AI coding startup Windsurf for $2.4 billion, onboarding co-founder Varun Mohan and senior R&D staff to bolster its AI capabilities against rivals like OpenAI and Meta.
Moonshot AI unveils Kimi K2, a groundbreaking 1 trillion parameter open-source language model that surpasses GPT-4 in coding, autonomous tasks, and math reasoning while being offered for free, potentially disrupting big tech's profit centers with its cost-efficient MuonClip optimizer.