Stripe plans to acquire OpenRouter, the AI model marketplace and gateway used by developers and companies to access models from multiple providers. OpenRouter announces in an official blog post that the deal remains subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close in the coming weeks. The company says its product, name, mission and …
Netlify’s comparison of 11 AI models shows that the cost of generating a simple website can vary dramatically, while the visible quality does not always rise in step with spending. Elad Rosenheim writes for Netlify that the company tested models with the same prompt to help users weigh output quality against the credits consumed by …
Anthropic has introduced cross-session messaging for Claude Code, allowing separate AI coding sessions on the same computer to exchange short updates, findings and requests while work is in progress. The feature is available from Claude Code version 2.1.224 on macOS and Linux. It is designed for people running several sessions in parallel, for example on …
Mistral has introduced Mistral OCR 4.1, a public preview service designed to turn documents into machine-readable content while retaining information about their layout. The company announces in Mistral Docs that the model can identify paragraphs, assign labels to structural blocks and return confidence scores for each block. The model, called mistral-ocr-4-1, is part of Mistral’s …
Ollama has raised a $65 million Series B round led by Theory Ventures, founder and CEO Jeff Morgan tells Julie Bort of TechCrunch. The funding follows a $15 million Series A led by Benchmark’s Peter Fenton, bringing the company’s total funding to $88 million. Ollama, launched in 2023, lets developers run open-weight AI models on …
Google has released a new AI image generation model aimed at developers and enterprise teams who need speed and low costs above all else. The model is officially called Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image but is marketed under the name Nano Banana 2 Lite. It generates images at 1,000 pixel resolution in around four seconds and …
Google has opened its Gemini Omni Flash model to developers and enterprise customers via API, bringing conversational video editing to professional workflows for the first time. Sam Witteveen reports for VentureBeat that the model, which debuted at Google I/O 2026, lets users generate and refine video clips through plain-language instructions rather than prompt-by-prompt generation from …
OpenAI has released three new voice models for developers through its Realtime API. Each model focuses on a different capability: reasoning, translation, and transcription. The first model, GPT-Realtime-2, brings GPT-5-class reasoning to live voice conversations. According to OpenAI, it can handle complex requests, manage interruptions, and call external tools while keeping a conversation going naturally. …
Mistral AI has launched Workflows, a production-grade orchestration platform designed to help businesses deploy AI reliably across critical operations. Michael Nuñez reports for VentureBeat that the Paris-based company, valued at approximately $13.8 billion, released the product in public preview as part of its Studio platform. Workflows allows engineers to define, run, and monitor multi-step AI …
Google has introduced two upgraded versions of its autonomous research agents, aiming to turn AI-powered analysis into a core tool for enterprise workflows. The new systems, called Deep Research and Deep Research Max, are built on the Gemini 3.1 Pro model and target tasks ranging from fast summaries to complex, multi-step investigations. The official blog …