IBM's Granite Speech 5.0 brings an open Apache 2.0 family of transcription and translation models, including a 2B flagship that runs fully on-device.
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IBM's Granite Speech 5.0 brings an open Apache 2.0 family of transcription and translation models, including a 2B flagship that runs fully on-device.
Recursive's Flint is a free, open-source coding model that runs on a laptop — and the company says its automated 'Eureka Machine' did most of the research work.
DeepSeek is closing a roughly $15 billion funding round backed by Tencent and CATL, doubling its original target as the US-China AI race heats up.
Kognitos has launched AI Employees, 61 role-based agents for finance and banking that execute approved SOPs deterministically, with full audit trails.
Anthropic has opened a research preview of Claude Duet, a proactive agent app for Pro and Max subscribers in the US that messages you first and handles work in the background.
The Department of Homeland Security has banned DeepSeek products across US federal civilian agencies, giving them 60 days to remove the Chinese AI technology from their systems.
The llm-d project has released version 1.0, an open-source Kubernetes-native stack that turns model servers into one coordinated inference pool for AI agents.
Salesforce has agreed to acquire customer engagement platform Braze for about $5.66 billion in cash, its biggest bet yet on AI-driven marketing.
Mistral AI has released Voxtral 3, a speech model family plus a real-time voice agent SDK that combines listening, reasoning, tool use and speaking in one streaming pipeline.
Startup Electric Plant debuted Bombadil, a foundation model trained on over 4 million hours of plant electrical recordings across 100 species.