SCRManus AI agent is becoming a subscription service with two pricing tiers at $39 and $199 per month, according to Bloomberg News. The Beijing-based startup’s move to monetize comes shortly after its beta release this month. The premium tier allows users to run up to five simultaneous tasks and provides additional computation credits. The AI …
Runway has unveiled its latest AI video generation model, Gen-4, touting significant improvements in character and scene consistency. According to Kyle Wiggers, who reported on the release, the model is now available to Runway’s individual and enterprise customers. The company claims Gen-4 can maintain coherent environments and characters across different scenes while accurately simulating real-world …
Amazon has introduced Nova Act, a new AI agent that can control a web browser to perform simple actions. According to Maxwell Zeff of TechCrunch, the technology will also power features in Amazon’s upcoming Alexa+ upgrade. Developers can access the Nova Act SDK to build agent prototypes that automate tasks like ordering food or making …
Google has unexpectedly made its newest AI model, Gemini 2.5 Pro, available to all users for free, not just premium subscribers. The model has quickly gained recognition for its exceptional reasoning abilities and is currently leading industry benchmarks. Gemini 2.5 Pro stands out for its massive 1-million token context window (with plans to expand to …
OpenAI’s rollout of a new image generation feature in ChatGPT has sparked a viral trend of Studio Ghibli-style images that has overwhelmed the company’s servers. Within 24 hours of the feature’s release, social media platforms were flooded with AI-generated images mimicking the distinctive style of the famous Japanese animation studio. The new image generation capability, …
The Arc Prize Foundation has released ARC-AGI-2, a new benchmark designed to measure artificial general intelligence that has proven extremely difficult for even the most advanced AI systems. This second-generation test specifically evaluates test-time reasoning abilities – requiring AI to adapt to novel, never-before-seen tasks rather than relying on memorization. The results reveal a stark …
OpenAI has introduced a new feature allowing ChatGPT Team users to connect their internal knowledge databases directly to the platform. According to reporting by Emilia David at VentureBeat, this long-requested capability is currently in beta. The feature enables semantic searches of company data, links to internal sources in responses, and helps ChatGPT understand company-specific terminology. …
AI search engine Perplexity is partnering with Seattle-based startup Firmly.ai to expand its shopping capabilities. According to Perplexity chief business officer Dmitry Shevelenko, in an interview with Fortune’s Jason Del Rey, over 150 merchants have expressed interest in selling through the platform since its shopping tools launched in November. The Firmly.ai integration will allow thousands …
Groq and PlayAI have partnered to create Dialog, a text-to-speech system that delivers more natural-sounding voice AI. According to Michael Nuñez of VentureBeat, the system combines PlayAI’s voice technology with Groq’s high-speed inference platform. Dialog features an “adaptive speech contextualizer” that maintains awareness of conversation flow, allowing responses with appropriate tone and emotion. The system …
Microsoft has unveiled two “deep reasoning” AI agents called Researcher and Analyst for its Microsoft 365 Copilot platform. According to Richard Lawler from The Verge, these tools are designed to handle complex research tasks and data analysis. Researcher, powered by OpenAI’s deep research model, can conduct multi-step research and access third-party data from sources like …