Intelligence, the San Francisco-based maker of DesignArena, raised a $7.9 million seed round led by Index Ventures, according to co-founder and CEO Grace Li. The startup, which uses human rankings fro…
Gradio, a Hugging Face-owned framework, awarded $10,000 in OpenAI Codex prizes to three small-model apps in its Build Small hackathon, with Tiny Narrator winning $5,000 for an accessibility tool that …
Zenity, co-founded by Ben Kliger and Michael Bargury, raised $125 million in a Series C round led by Norwest, with participation from Qumra Capital, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, Hitachi Ventures, LG Techno…
Superblocks launched version 3.0 of its AI app-building platform on Monday, introducing a deployment model that runs the entire platform, including AI inference, inside a customer's Amazon Web Service…
Armature, founded by Theodore Otzenberger and Louis Scremin, launched on July 22 to provide product analytics for AI agent sessions, reconstructing Model Context Protocol (MCP) sessions to show softwa…
Markov, a computer-use data startup founded by Dev Mandal and Harish Ashok, released CAD Environments on August 3rd, a dataset of 51 human-performed CAD workflows totaling 99.03 hours and 152 GB for t…
Google announced on August 3rd that Gemini Spark, its personal AI agent, can now use Chrome's auto browse feature to complete multi-step web errands such as scheduling apartment viewings, researching …
Wispr Flow, the voice dictation product from founders Tanay Kothari and Sahaj Garg, is preparing to launch a meeting notetaker, according to updated terms and privacy documents dated July 25th. The ne…
Actualyze AI emerged from stealth on August 3 with $7 million in seed funding to launch a platform that governs enterprise AI traffic, routing model calls through a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint. …
Google is testing a "New agent" tool inside Gemini for Android that would let users create task-specific AI agents from a phone or tablet, according to an August 3rd APK teardown by Android Authority.…
Microsoft Research released Orchard, an MIT-licensed framework for training and evaluating AI agents, on August 3rd, aiming to reduce the high costs of building agent infrastructure. The framework inc…
FLock has added DeepSeek V4 Flash to its OpenAI-compatible API Platform, offering developers access to a 284-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with a 1-million-token context window at discoun…
Cloudflare introduced an early preview of Cloudflare Computer on August 3, a runtime that combines isolates, Durable Objects, and Linux containers to give AI agents a persistent filesystem and let dev…
ComfyUI, the node-based AI creation engine created by Yannik Marek, added native MiniMax H3 workflows on Aug. 2, turning the video model into editable graphs with local-runtime support, claiming it ca…
OLIX, a London AI chip developer founded by 25-year-old James Dacombe, raised $312 million in a Series B round led by Fundomo, valuing the company at $3.3 billion before its first processor ships. The…
Moonshot AI demonstrated Kimi Slides, a workflow that turns research and source material into an editable PowerPoint presentation, in an August 3 tutorial on X. The feature, powered by the 2.8-trillio…
Maor Shlomo sold solo-founded AI app builder Base44 to Wix in June 2025 for $92.158 million in total purchase consideration, including $18.058 million in cash and $74.1 million in contingent considera…
June, founded by Efrat Rapoport, Ohad Hen, Barak Goldstein, and Idan Tsitiat, launched from stealth on Monday with $20 million in pre-seed funding led by Marc Benioff's Time Ventures, with backing fro…
Invenio Imaging, a San Jose medical-device maker, has completed enrollment in its ON-SITE study of 1,006 patients across seven U.S. medical centers to evaluate its AI-based NIO Lung Cancer Reveal syst…
Oumi cofounder and CEO Manos Koukoumidis is building tools to help enterprises cut AI costs by using smaller, task-specific models instead of expensive frontier systems, a market that also includes co…