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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. …
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 …
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 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 …
Google is significantly expanding its AI Mode in Search with four new features. According to a report by Abner Li of 9to5google, the updates aim to make search more interactive and contextual. Users will soon be able to upload PDFs and images on the desktop to ask detailed questions about their content. A new feature …
Adobe is rolling out new generative AI features for Photoshop, including a tool called “Harmonize” that automatically blends added objects into images. According to a report by The Verge, the Harmonize feature adjusts an object’s color, lighting, and shadows to convincingly match the main photograph. The update also includes an AI tool for upscaling low-resolution …
Google has launched Gemini 2.5 Deep Think, a new AI model designed for complex problem-solving, which is now available to subscribers of its Google AI Ultra plan. The company states that the model uses a technique called “parallel thinking.” This approach allows the AI to generate and consider many different ideas or solution paths at …