Drafted released V2 of its AI home-design tool on Friday, adding room placement controls, partial regeneration, and exterior customization. The San Francisco startup aims to solve the problem of AI-ge…
Muse Spark 1.1 defeated DeepSeek-V4-Pro 11-1 in a head-to-head benchmark of 12 text tasks, scoring 110.8 to 84.3 with 100% confidence. The model outperformed in localization, proofreading, JSON extrac…
GPT Image 2 API defeated Seedream 5.0 Pro Image Editing 72.0 to 65.2 in an eight-task image editing test, winning four tasks outright with zero losses, demonstrating superior adherence to structure-he…
A user demo on X shows OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol running Blender at 750 tokens per second, highlighting the model's low-latency performance in a live tool loop. OpenAI released GPT-5.6 Sol on July 9 across…
RuntimeWire launched a text-message alert channel for AI and startup news, allowing subscribers to receive breaking alerts and daily digests via SMS without an app or email. Users can opt in by textin…
Mistral released Robostral Navigate, an 8B-parameter AI model that uses a single RGB camera and natural-language instructions to navigate robots through indoor spaces. The model achieved a 76.6% succe…
Alta, an AI go-to-market platform founded by Stav Levi-Neumark, Tom Hoffen, and Mor Shabtai, raised $25 million in Series A funding led by IN Venture to build an AI command layer for revenue teams. Th…
PassiveLogic, led by newly appointed CEO Thomas Kiessling, launched Level 3 Autonomy, a system using a physics-based world model to autonomously control buildings and industrial infrastructure. The pl…
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…