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The French artificial intelligence company Mistral has announced a significant update for its chatbot, Le Chat, introducing a range of new features aimed at enhancing productivity for both individual and enterprise users. The update brings Le Chat closer in capability to competing services from companies like OpenAI and Google. A key new feature is the …
French AI company Mistral has released Voxtral, its first family of open-source AI models for audio processing. The company positions Voxtral as a solution for developers who previously had to choose between less reliable open-source systems and expensive, closed proprietary models. Mistral claims Voxtral offers high performance at “less than half the price” of comparable …
New web browsers are integrating generative AI directly into their interface to assist users with tasks like summarizing content and answering questions. Brian X. Chen of The New York Times recently tested a pre-release version of one such browser, an app called Dia from the start-up The Browser Company of New York. According to the …
Users can now create and edit designs in Canva using Anthropic’s Claude chatbot. According to a report by Jess Weatherbed for The Verge, the new feature lets users give instructions in natural language to generate presentations, resize images, and fill templates. Users can also search and summarize existing Canva documents through the Claude interface. Access …
The Chinese AI startup Moonshot AI has released Kimi K2, a new open source language model designed to compete with proprietary systems from OpenAI and Anthropic. In an article for VentureBeat, Michael Nuñez reports that the model shows particularly strong performance in coding and autonomous task completion. According to the company, Kimi K2 outperforms leading …
OpenAI has postponed the release of its open model for an indefinite period, marking the second delay for the project. According to a report by Maxwell Zeff for TechCrunch, CEO Sam Altman announced the decision on Friday. Altman stated on X that the company needs more time for “additional safety tests and [to] review high-risk …
In late summer 2025, a new large language model will be made publicly available by a consortium of Swiss research institutions. According to an announcement from ETH Zurich by authors Florian Meyer and Mélissa Anchisi, the model was co-developed by researchers at EPFL, ETH Zurich, and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS). It aims to …
A YC-backed startup has released BrowserOS, an open-source web browser that integrates AI agents to automate tasks. In a post on Hacker News, the two-person development team stated its goal is to provide a privacy-first alternative as AI agents gain access to sensitive user data. The browser runs these agents locally on a person’s computer, …
Google has introduced a new feature in its AI tool Gemini that allows users to transform still photos into eight-second video clips with sound. The capability was announced in a company blog post by David Sharon, the Multimodal Generation Lead for Gemini Apps. The feature is powered by Veo 3, Google’s latest video generation model. …
The artificial intelligence company Perplexity has launched a new web browser named Comet. According to the company’s official announcement, the product aims to fundamentally change how people use the internet by deeply integrating an AI assistant into the browsing experience. The launch and a hands-on review of the new browser were covered by Maxwell Zeff …