Anthropic is rolling out a set of organizational controls for Claude Cowork, its AI-powered collaboration tool, making it available across all paid plans. A post in the official Claude Blog states that the update brings role-based access controls, group spending limits, expanded observability, and new usage analytics to help companies deploy the tool company-wide. Claude …
Google has launched Gemma 4, a new family of open-weight AI models that the company describes as its most capable to date. The models are built on the same research and technology as Google DeepMind’s proprietary Gemini 3 system and are released under an Apache 2.0 open-source license, which allows developers to use and modify …
French AI company Mistral has released Voxtral TTS, an open-weight text-to-speech model aimed at enterprise use cases such as customer support, sales, and real-time translation. Unlike competitors such as ElevenLabs, Deepgram, and OpenAI, Mistral is releasing the full model weights, allowing companies to run the system on their own infrastructure without sending data to a …
Xiaomi has launched MiMo-V2-Pro, a large language model the Chinese electronics and car manufacturer claims can compete with leading American AI systems at significantly lower cost. Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat that the model approaches the performance of OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s top offerings while costing roughly one sixth to one seventh as much per use. …
Adobe has launched Firefly Custom Models in public beta, allowing creators and businesses to train AI image generators using their own visual assets. The tool lets users teach the AI to recognize and reproduce specific styles, character designs, color palettes, lighting conditions, and stroke weights. The goal is to help teams produce large volumes of …
Mistral AI has launched Forge, a platform that allows companies and governments to train custom AI models using their own proprietary data. The French AI startup announced the product at Nvidia’s GTC conference. Most enterprise AI tools today rely on fine-tuning or retrieval augmented generation (RAG), which adapt existing models at runtime without retraining them. …
Perplexity has introduced two new AI agent products at its Ask 2026 developer conference in San Francisco. The announcements signal the company’s move beyond consumer search into enterprise software. The first product, Perplexity Computer, is a cloud-based AI agent that the company now also launched for enterprise customers. It coordinates approximately 20 AI models from …
Microsoft has announced Copilot Cowork, a cloud-based AI agent that can complete complex tasks across Microsoft 365 applications on behalf of users. Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat that the tool is built using technology from Anthropic, the AI company behind the competing Claude Cowork product. Copilot Cowork forms the centerpiece of Microsoft’s “Wave 3” update …
Anthropic has launched Claude Marketplace, a new platform that gives enterprise customers access to third-party tools built on its Claude AI models. Emilia David reports for VentureBeat that the marketplace currently features products from companies including GitLab, Harvey, Lovable, Replit, Rogo and Snowflake. The platform is designed to simplify procurement. Enterprises with an existing Anthropic …
Microsoft has released Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, a compact AI model that processes both images and text and can solve complex math and science problems. Michael Nuñez reports for VentureBeat that the 15-billion-parameter model matches or exceeds the performance of much larger systems while using significantly less computing power and training data. The model is available now on …