Google’s Gemini gets new eyes and a bigger brain

Google’s latest and most capable AI model, Gemini 3 Pro, has advanced capabilities when it comes to tasks that require visual understanding. In a post on the Google Blog, the company outlined how the model processes and reasons about visual information from various sources. According to Google, the model demonstrates strong performance in several key …

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Sam Altman issues ‘code red’ as Google’s Gemini threatens ChatGPT’s dominance

OpenAI is facing significant competitive pressure, primarily from Google’s new AI model, Gemini 3. In an internal memo, OpenAI’s chief executive Sam Altman declared a “code red” to improve ChatGPT, telling staff the company is at a “critical time.” He warned that the launch of Gemini 3, which has outperformed rivals on several benchmarks, could …

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Mistral 3 brings frontier AI to your pocket with unprecedented openness

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 …

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DeepSeeks new open-source AI models claim performance comparable to GPT-5

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. …

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Runway launches Gen-4.5 AI video model, tops industry benchmark

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 …

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This new Microsoft AI beats GPT-4o at web tasks and protects your privacy

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 …

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Upwork study finds AI agents need human partners to succeed

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 …

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Leading AI labs disagree on the meaning of ‘world model’

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 …

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Survey: AI music is nearly indistinguishable from human work

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 …

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