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ByteDance trains 10 trillion parameter model to rival Anthropic
The TikTok parent's next model would be three times the size of Moonshot's Kimi K3 and larger than estimates for Anthropic's Mythos 5.
Nvidia releases Cosmos 3, an open world model family for physical AI
The three-tier release spans 4B to 64B parameters and tops five benchmarks for open-weights image, video, world and robot generation.
Nvidia opens Alpamayo 2 Super for commercial robotaxi deployment
The 30B-parameter driving model tops LingoQA against Qwen, Gemini and GPT-4o, and ships under a permissive Linux Foundation license.
Apple ships working Siri AI in iOS 27 beta, trained on Google's Gemini
Siri finally understands personal context and holds a conversation, but arrives years after the AI assistant race moved on.
Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter model rivaling Claude
Alibaba's largest model to date ranks second only to Anthropic's Fable 5 on Arena.AI, with open weights due next week.
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 takes control of a humanoid from feet to fingertips
The update extends the model from upper-body manipulation to full-body motion, letting Apptronik's Apollo 2 walk, crouch and pick items off shelves.
Google DeepMind ships Gemini Robotics ER 2 as a video-native brain for robots
The new embodied reasoning model tracks task progress from live video, orchestrates other robots, and runs at 4x the speed of larger rivals.
Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 controls humanoids across dexterous tasks
The updated model fuses a vision-language brain with two action models to run robots like Apptronik's Apollo 2 on real chores.
Google DeepMind ships Lyria 3.5 in Flow Music with sharper vocals and lyrics
The new music model adds tempo and duration controls, better prompt adherence on lyrics, and more expressive vocals, rolling out today in Flow Music.
Claude Opus 4.7 finishes a two-week coding job in 14 hours for $251
Epoch and METR's new MirrorCode benchmark shows frontier models reimplementing 61k-line codebases from scratch through CLI access alone.
Nvidia turns its own Vera CPU on the job of designing future Nvidia chips
Early tests with Cadence and Synopsys show 1.5x speedups on formal verification and functional simulation workloads.
Encord straps brain-wave headsets on robot trainers to fix the physical AI data gap
The startup is manufacturing egocentric video, muscle-sensor readings, and now EEG signals to feed humanoid models starved of real-world data.
Anthropic's Opus 5 is a cost play, not a capability leap
Opus 5 lands at half the price of Fable with roughly matching benchmarks, as model routers pressure frontier labs on tokens.
Researchers use AlphaFold to redesign CRISPR-Cas9 and cut off-target edits from 28% to 5%
A Chinese research team fed guide RNAs, target DNA, and Cas9 into AlphaFold to find the 10 amino acids that let the protein stick where it shouldn't.
Anthropic ships Claude Opus 5 at half the price of Fable 5
Opus 5 lands weeks after government cybersecurity concerns forced Fable 5 offline, with stronger safeguards and $5/$25 per million tokens.
AMD unveils Helios rack system to challenge Nvidia in AI data centers
Lisa Su calls Helios the highest-performance AI rack, with OpenAI, Meta, Oracle, Anthropic, and Microsoft lined up to deploy it at gigawatt scale.
Anthropic upgrades Claude voice mode to run on Opus and Sonnet
Voice mode now taps Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku, plus Gmail, Slack, and Notion — pushing past ChatGPT's tool-less voice.
DeepSeek founder says AGI trumps profit, top models to stay open-source
Liang Wenfeng told Yicai that DeepSeek will keep releasing its frontier models as open weights, prioritising AGI over commercial returns.
Nvidia open sources Medical Physics Simulation for surgical robot training
GPU-native framework cuts training time from five hours to under two minutes across 8,192 parallel environments; CMR Surgical and J&J MedTech are early adopters.
Google ships three new Gemini models but delays Pro update
Gemini 3.6 Flash cuts token usage by up to 17%, but the flagship Pro refresh is still stuck as OpenAI and Anthropic pull ahead.
Google ships Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite to cut agent costs
The Flash refresh trims output tokens 17%, hits 350 tokens/second on Flash-Lite, and adds a cyber-tuned variant for CodeMender.
Moonshot and Alibaba unveil open-weight rivals to GPT-5.6 and Claude Fable 5
Kimi K3 lands at 2.8 trillion parameters, Qwen3.8 at 2.4 trillion, and both will release weights that US labs keep locked down.
Moonshot's Kimi K3 aims to match Anthropic's Opus 4.8 as valuation hits $31.5B
The Chinese lab's next open-weight model will run 2–3 trillion parameters, the largest ever released from China.
AMI Labs' Alexandre LeBrun rejects 'AGI' and 'superintelligence' labels
The Yann LeCun-backed world model startup raised $1.03B in March but is still pre-product and courting Korean robotics partners.
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