Claude can now search past conversations for context

Anthropic has introduced a new feature for its Claude chatbot that allows it to search a user’s chat history for information. According to the company, this function helps users seamlessly continue discussions by retrieving context from past interactions. The feature is currently rolling out to subscribers of the paid Max, Team, and Enterprise plans. The …

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OpenAI releases GPT-5 model family, focusing on reliability and new capabilities

OpenAI has officially launched GPT-5, its highly anticipated new generation of artificial intelligence models. The release, announced on August 7, 2025, introduces not a single model but a coordinated system of models designed to be smarter, faster, and more reliable than their predecessors. The new system is immediately available to all ChatGPT users, including those …

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Google Deepmind unveils Genie 3, an AI model for generating interactive worlds

Google Deepmind has announced Genie 3, a new AI “world model” capable of generating interactive, three-dimensional environments from text prompts. According to the company’s official post, users can navigate these dynamic worlds in real time. The model generates environments at a resolution of 720p and runs at 24 frames per second. Google Deepmind states that …

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Anthropic releases new high-end model Claude Opus 4.1

Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 4.1, an upgraded version of its leading AI model. The company states that the new model improves on its predecessor in tasks involving reasoning, research, and particularly coding. The release comes amid reports of intense competition in the AI market and analysis of Anthropic’s business strategy. Performance and Market Position …

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New AI models from Deep Cogito learn to improve their own reasoning

The AI startup Deep Cogito has released four new open source language models designed to get better at reasoning on their own. In an article for VentureBeat, Carl Franzen reported on the release from the San Francisco based company. The models, part of the Cogito v2 family, are trained to internalize their own thought processes. …

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AI startup Manus introduces ‘Wide Research’ feature using parallel agents

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 …

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Chinese startup Z.ai releases open source AI that creates PowerPoint slides

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 …

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AI startup ElevenLabs releases music generator trained on licensed data

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 …

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Alibaba’s new open source AI model aims to master text in images

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, …

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OpenAI releases its first open-weight models since GPT-2

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 …

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