Anthropic introduces API for Claude AI web search capability

Anthropic has launched a new API that enables its Claude AI models to search the web, allowing developers to build applications that deliver up-to-date information. According to the company’s announcement, this feature lets Claude augment its knowledge base with current, real-world data. When the web search API is enabled, Claude uses reasoning capabilities to determine … Read more

Figma launches AI-powered tools for website creation and design

Figma has introduced several new AI-powered tools aimed at simplifying website creation, app prototyping, and marketing asset generation. According to Ivan Mehta from TechCrunch, the design company’s new offerings include Figma Sites, Figma Make, Figma Buzz, and Figma Draw. Figma Sites allows designers to turn their prototypes into functional websites with AI assistance, complete with … Read more

OpenAI launches new initiative to help countries build democratic AI infrastructure

OpenAI has introduced “OpenAI for Countries,” a new initiative within its Stargate project to support nations interested in developing democratic AI infrastructure. The company announced plans to partner with up to 10 countries or regions in the first phase. Through these collaborations, OpenAI will help build in-country data centers, provide customized ChatGPT to citizens, evolve … Read more

Mistral AI launches Le Chat Enterprise and new Medium 3 model

French AI startup Mistral AI has announced Le Chat Enterprise, a comprehensive AI assistant platform designed for organizations, powered by their new Mistral Medium 3 model. The platform aims to address common enterprise AI challenges such as tool fragmentation, insecure knowledge integration, and slow return on investment by providing a unified solution for organizational work. … Read more

Particle launches AI news reader website

Particle, a startup that uses AI to summarize news articles, has expanded its service to the web with the launch of Particle.news. As reported by Sarah Perez for TechCrunch, the platform aims to help publishers rather than divert traffic from them. The website offers AI-generated summaries of news articles across various categories including Technology, Sports, … Read more

Nvidia releases free Parakeet-TDT-0.6B-V2 speech recognition model

Nvidia has launched a new open-source automatic speech recognition (ASR) model called Parakeet-TDT-0.6B-v2. According to VentureBeat reporter Carl Franzen, the model can transcribe 60 minutes of audio in just one second when running on Nvidia’s GPU hardware. The new model currently tops the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard with a word error rate of only … Read more

Recraft’s AI image model outperforms competitors in branding applications

Recraft, an AI startup focused on image generation, has secured $30 million in Series B funding led by Accel. As reported by Charles Rollet for TechCrunch, the company’s “red_panda” model recently outperformed OpenAI’s DALL-E and Midjourney on the Artificial Analysis benchmark. Founder and CEO Anna Veronika Dorogush highlighted that Recraft’s technology excels specifically at brand-focused … Read more

Amazon debuts Nova Premier AI model for complex reasoning tasks

Amazon has launched Nova Premier, its most advanced AI model to date, capable of processing text, images, and videos. The model is now available through Amazon Bedrock, the company’s AI development platform. As reported by Kyle Wiggers for TechCrunch, Nova Premier excels at complex tasks requiring contextual understanding and multi-step planning. With a context length … Read more

Google adds “AI Mode” tab to Search for some US users

Google is introducing an AI Mode tab in Search for a small percentage of US users in the coming weeks. This new feature will move from Google’s experimental Labs environment to the main Search interface, as reported by Jess Weatherbed. The AI Mode tab will appear first in the Search tab lineup, positioned to the … Read more

Freepik launches AI image model trained on licensed data

Freepik has introduced F Lite, a new AI image generation model trained exclusively on commercially licensed, safe-for-work images. According to Kyle Wiggers at TechCrunch, the model contains approximately 10 billion parameters and was developed in partnership with AI startup Fal.ai. The training process used 64 Nvidia H100 GPUs over two months and utilized an internal … Read more