ImagineArt 1.5 Pro Preview defeated Bagel 27.0 to 20.1 in a head-to-head image generation test, winning on three tasks including a Brutalist fjord terminal and a scene with 13 yaks. The test used fres…
Subquadratic, a Miami AI startup, claims to have broken through the transformer attention bottleneck that limits large language models, introducing Subquadratic Sparse Attention (SSA) to enable effici…
Jack Dorsey's Block revealed that its internal AI engineering system, Builderbot, now accounts for 15% of all production code changes at the company. The system, built on Block's open-source framework…
In a head-to-head comparison of four text tasks, xAI's grok-4.3 scored 37.8 against OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b at 34.4, winning on precision in fact-based summarization. The models tied on two coding tasks…
Subquadratic founders Justin Dangel and Alex Whedon released third-party benchmarks from Appen to support their claim that SubQ, a sparse-attention LLM, outperforms dense transformers on long-context …
Hugging Face released ML-Intern, an open-source agent that automates the machine learning research loop from literature review to training runs, on June 18. The tool has been used over 12,000 times si…
CuspAI, a two-year-old materials discovery startup, is raising $400 million at a $2.6 billion valuation, with participation from Jeff Bezos's family office and Kleiner Perkins. The round, reported by …
Luma Ray 3.2 Image to Video defeated Bernini-R Edit Video 16.2 to 12.3 in a head-to-head comparison of two AI video generation models, based on two fresh video tasks scored by GPT-5.4. Luma delivered …
XAI has made Grok 4.3 available on Amazon Bedrock, allowing AWS customers to use the model as a managed service for enterprise reasoning and agentic workflows. The integration, announced June 17, posi…
Snap co-founder and CTO Bobby Murphy is personally investing in Dotmo, a new company spun out of Snap's generative AI video team to build models for interactive gaming experiences. Snap will license t…
Alex Mashrabov's AI video startup Higgsfield claims a $500 million revenue run rate, up from $50 million in September 2025, as it raises a Series B round driven by inbound investor interest. The compa…
Ideogram V4.0q Text to Image defeated Bagel 23.0 to 14.0 in a head-to-head comparison of text-to-image models, winning on prompt adherence, text accuracy, and spatial arrangement across three editoria…
Sebastian Kurz and Shalev Hulio's AI cybersecurity startup DREAM raised $260 million in Series C funding at a $3 billion valuation, led by Bicycle Capital and Group 11. The company sells sovereign AI …
Noam Shazeer, co-author of the Transformer paper and former Character.AI CEO, is leaving Google's Gemini team to join OpenAI in an architecture research role, shifting a key model builder from the lab…
Swiss private AI infrastructure startup Prem AI is raising a $100 million Series A round at a target valuation of at least $500 million, according to Bloomberg. The company, led by founder and CEO Sim…
Bryant Chou, former Webflow CTO and co-founder, raised $27 million in seed funding for Ploy, an AI marketing platform that automates website updates and growth operations after launch. The platform in…
XDOF, a robotics data infrastructure startup founded by Philipp Wu, Fred Shentu, and Nemo Jin, emerged from stealth on June 17 with $70 million in funding from Thrive Capital, Spark Capital, and Andre…
OpenAI released LifeSciBench on June 17, a benchmark for life-science AI that evaluates applied research tasks like evidence interpretation and experiment design rather than simple recall. The benchma…
David Holz's Midjourney announced Midjourney Medical, a full-body ultrasound scanner that uses sound waves to create 3D body maps in under 60 seconds. The self-funded AI lab is moving from image gener…
In a head-to-head test of two video-generation models, Happy Horse defeated Bernini-R Edit Video with a score of 17.6 to 14.4, demonstrating superior precision in following detailed prompts. Happy Hor…