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Google has expanded its “AI Mode” search feature to support image understanding. The update enables users to upload or take photos that AI Mode can analyze to provide relevant search results. According to Ryan Whitwam at Ars Technica, the feature uses a custom version of the Gemini large language model working alongside Google Lens to …
Google has announced that its Gemini 2.5 Pro model is now available in public preview through the Gemini API in Google AI Studio, with Vertex AI rollout expected shortly. According to Google, this model is their “most intelligent” to date and has been priced competitively at $1.24 per million input tokens and $10 per million …
Meta has released its newest generation of artificial intelligence models, Llama 4, introducing three variants with improved capabilities. The weekend release included two immediate offerings – Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick – with a third model, Llama 4 Behemoth, still in development. According to Meta, Llama 4 models mark “the beginning of a …
Midjourney has released V7 Alpha, its first new AI image generation model in nearly a year, featuring voice prompting capabilities and a faster draft mode. The launch comes a week after OpenAI debuted a new image generator in ChatGPT that quickly gained popularity. According to Midjourney CEO David Holz, V7 represents a “totally different architecture” …
OpenAI has reversed its decision to cancel the consumer release of its o3 reasoning model. CEO Sam Altman announced on X (formerly Twitter) that both o3 and a next-generation successor, o4-mini, will launch in “a couple of weeks.” According to Kyle Wiggers reporting for TechCrunch, this change relates to OpenAI’s upcoming GPT-5, which will incorporate …
Microsoft is rolling out its Copilot Vision feature to Windows and mobile platforms, extending the AI assistant’s capabilities beyond web browsers. Previously limited to Edge webpages, Copilot Vision can now analyze real-time video from mobile cameras and interact with content across Windows applications. The expanded vision capabilities allow Copilot to provide practical assistance such as …
Oumi has released HallOumi, an open-source claim verification model designed to detect and prevent AI hallucinations. According to Sean Michael Kerner of VentureBeat, the tool analyzes AI-generated content on a sentence-by-sentence basis, providing confidence scores, specific citations, and human-readable explanations. Led by ex-Apple and Google engineers, Oumi aims to build an unconditionally open-source AI platform. …
Researchers from Sentient, the University of Washington, Princeton University, and UC Berkeley have introduced Open Deep Search (ODS), a new open-source framework designed to match the capabilities of proprietary AI search solutions. The system combines reasoning agents with web search tools to enhance the performance of large language models. According to the research team led …
Google has added a new “Discover sources” feature to NotebookLM that searches the web for relevant content. As reported by Abner Li, this update allows users to find information without manually adding files and links. After clicking the new button in the Sources pane and entering a topic of interest, NotebookLM delivers up to 10 …
Adobe has released version 25.2 of Premiere Pro, featuring new AI-powered tools including Generative Extend. This feature, powered by Adobe’s Firefly AI model, allows editors to extend video clips by up to two seconds and ambient audio by up to ten seconds. As Jess Weatherbed reports, the tool is free for a limited time before …