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Mistral AI has launched Mistral 3, a collection of 10 open-source AI models designed to run on devices ranging from smartphones to enterprise cloud systems. The French startup released all models under the Apache 2.0 license, allowing unrestricted commercial use. The release includes Mistral Large 3, the company’s flagship model, and the Ministral 3 series …
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek released two new language models on December 1, 2025, claiming they match the performance of OpenAI’s GPT-5 and Google’s Gemini-3.0-Pro on multiple benchmarks. The company made both models freely available under an open-source MIT license. DeepSeek-V3.2 serves as an everyday reasoning assistant, while DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale focuses on advanced mathematical and coding tasks. …
The artificial intelligence company Runway announced its new video generation model, Gen-4.5, on December 1, 2025. According to the independent benchmarking firm Artificial Analysis, the new model has achieved the top rank in its text-to-video leaderboard, placing it ahead of models from larger competitors like Google and OpenAI. Gen-4.5 allows users to create high-definition videos …
The AI company Perplexity has launched a new, free shopping feature for all its users in the United States. The tool uses a conversational AI assistant to help people discover products based on their personal needs and preferences. In a post on the company’s official blog, Perplexity explains that the feature aims to improve the …
Microsoft has introduced Fara-7B, a new artificial intelligence agent designed to perform complex computer tasks directly on a user’s device. The model is small enough to run locally, which enhances data security and privacy by keeping sensitive information on the user’s personal computer. As Ben Dickson reports for VentureBeat, Fara-7B operates by visually interpreting the …
A new study by the online work marketplace Upwork shows that artificial intelligence agents frequently fail to complete professional tasks on their own. However, their performance improves dramatically when they collaborate with human experts, with project completion rates increasing by up to 70 percent. Michael Nuñez reports for VentureBeat that this is the first major …
Top researchers and companies in artificial intelligence, including Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs, Meta’s Yann LeCun, and Google DeepMind, are all promoting technology they call a “world model”. However, the term is being used to describe three fundamentally different approaches to building AI that can understand and interact with the world. An analysis by Entropy Town …
A staggering 97 percent of listeners cannot tell the difference between songs composed by humans and those generated by artificial intelligence. This is the result of a survey conducted by Ipsos for the music streaming platform Deezer. As Jaspreet Singh reports for Reuters, the study polled 9,000 people across eight countries. The findings highlight growing …
The second season of the Amazon Prime series “House of David” used between 350 and 400 shots created with generative artificial intelligence. Kat Tenbarge reports for WIRED that this is more than four times the amount used in the show’s first season. Showrunner Jon Erwin said his production company, The Wonder Project, used AI to …
Researchers at New York University have created a new AI architecture that generates higher-quality images more efficiently. Ben Dickson reports for VentureBeat that the model, called Representation Autoencoders or RAE, improves an AI’s understanding of image content, which leads to better results. The new method challenges common practices in building diffusion models, the technology behind …