Stilta, a Stockholm-based legal AI startup founded by former McKinsey and QuantumBlack engineers, raised $10.5 million in seed funding led by Andreessen Horowitz to deploy AI agents for patent litigat…
In a head-to-head coding test, Mistral-medium-3-5 defeated Kimi-K2.7-Code 7.0 to 0.0 after Kimi-K2.7-Code failed to render its scene code on the only task evaluated. The win carries 75% confidence, re…
Polysense, a Ghent-based startup, raised $10.7 million in seed funding led by Felix Capital to scale its AI quality-control software for food manufacturers. The company's system uses real-time imaging…
Fleek, a B2B marketplace for secondhand clothing wholesale, raised $25 million in Series B funding led by Burda Principal Investments with participation from eBay, FJ Labs, and H14. The company uses A…
Stan, a creator-commerce company, built its AI content product Stanley in 14 days and grew it to $3 million in annual recurring revenue, according to founder John Hu. The product, which helps creators…
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family includes three tiers—Sol, Terra, and Luna—with Sol reportedly used to train Luna, the cheapest model, according to Array Ventures founder Shruti Gandhi. The pricing strategy po…
Velocity, a startup founded by former ironSource and Unity executives Tal Shoham, Amir Shaked, and Nimrod Zuta, has raised $27 million to build an advertising layer for AI chat interfaces. The company…
Sherpa, a German startup founded by Tristan Deschler, Tim Altpeter, and Max Lang, raised $2.2 million in pre-seed funding to build an AI operating system for managing external workforces that include …
Berlin-based reverse.fashion, a TU Berlin spin-off using AI for used-textile sorting, secured a seven-figure pre-seed extension from High-Tech Gruenderfonds. The funding will support commercial expans…
Anthropic has moved its most capable consumer-accessible AI model, Claude Fable 5, out of standard paid subscriptions and into metered usage credits, requiring Pro, Max, Team and select Enterprise use…
Researchers at EPFL and Google Research developed Cells2Pixels, a neural cellular automata model that achieves an 8x resolution boost by treating cells as local neural fields rather than pixels. The m…
Pietro Schirano, CEO of MagicPath, demonstrated GPT-5.6 Sol generating a complete training pipeline for a small Transformer model trained on his iMessage history, producing a 1.38 million-parameter mo…
Google Research introduced SensorFM on July 9th, a wearable health foundation model trained on over one trillion minutes of sensor data from five million consented Fitbit and Pixel Watch users. The mo…
AI training data startup Mercor is in early talks to raise new capital at a $20 billion valuation, double its October 2025 valuation, as co-founder Brendan Foody reports annualized revenue run rate ha…
Matt Shumer, co-founder of OthersideAI, demonstrated on July 9th that OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol autonomously generated a voxel-based Manhattan scene over nearly a week without human intervention, showcasin…
Neurotech startup Aleph published a silent-speech prototype that uses submental ultrasound to image tongue motion and convert it into text, achieving a 15.6% word error rate on an open-vocabulary test…
Muse Spark 1.1 defeated Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 in a head-to-head benchmark, scoring 104.5 to 94.5 across 12 text tasks. The win was driven by Muse's superior instruction-following on constrained,…
OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 on July 9th with three tiers—Sol, Terra, and Luna—priced at $5, $2.50, and $1 per million input tokens respectively, positioning the model as an operating layer for long-runnin…
Manus launched Branch on July 9th, a feature that lets users split a single AI chat into parallel sessions while retaining context. The tool aims to streamline agent workflows by allowing one research…
Marker, an AI writing startup co-founded by former DeepMind creative lead Jon Steinback and Ryan Bowman, emerged from stealth with a $13 million seed round led by Index Ventures and backed by LocalGlo…