The Singaporean AI startup Manus has launched an experimental feature called “Wide Research” that allows users to run more than 100 AI agents in parallel to complete large-scale tasks. According to an article by Carl Franzen in VentureBeat, this approach contrasts with the “Deep Research” methods used by competitors like OpenAI and Google, which typically …
Yelp is automatically creating short videos about restaurants and other businesses using generative artificial intelligence. According to a report by The Verge, this feature is now available nationwide in the United States on Yelp’s iOS app. The system combines photos and videos uploaded by users to create a short, narrated clip. Generative AI models from …
A majority of adults in the United States say they use artificial intelligence, but primarily for searching for information. A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research reveals that younger adults are far more likely to integrate AI into other areas of their lives, such as for work and creative tasks. …
The Chinese AI startup Z.ai has launched its new GLM-4.5 family of powerful open source models. According to reporting by Carl Franzen, a key feature is the ability to generate complete PowerPoint presentations from a single prompt. The family includes the flagship model GLM-4.5 and a more efficient version called GLM-4.5-Air. Both models are designed …
The IT security company Cloudflare claims that the AI answer engine Perplexity is using undeclared web crawlers to access content on websites that explicitly forbid it. According to a blog post authored by several Cloudflare engineers, Perplexity ignores standard protocols designed to respect the preferences of website owners. Cloudflare conducted an experiment to verify the …
OpenAI announced that its ChatGPT service is set to reach 700 million weekly active users this week, up from 500 million in March. According to an article by MacKenzie Sigalos for CNBC, this represents a more than fourfold year-over-year surge in growth. The company also stated that daily user messages have surpassed three billion. In …
The AI company ElevenLabs has launched a new service, Eleven Music, that allows users to create original songs from text prompts. According to an article by Belle Lin for The Wall Street Journal, the company aims to avoid legal issues by training its model on licensed music. ElevenLabs CEO Mati Staniszewski said the startup secured …
Alibaba’s Qwen Team has released a new open source AI image generator called Qwen-Image. According to its developers, the model specializes in creating images with accurately rendered text in both English and Chinese, a common challenge for many AI systems. Writing for VentureBeat, journalist Carl Franzen notes this capability allows for creating content like posters, …
OpenAI has announced the release of two new open-weight language models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b. This marks the company’s first open-weight model release in over five years, since GPT-2 in 2019, signaling a significant strategic shift for the organization that has recently focused on proprietary systems like GPT-4o and ChatGPT. The models, their weights, and a …
Krea AI has released an open-source version of its image generation model, designed to produce visuals with a distinct aesthetic and avoid the common look of AI-generated content. In their post authors Sangwu Lee and Erwann Millon detailed the philosophy and process behind their new model, FLUX.1 Krea. The model was developed in collaboration with …