Thinking Machines, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati, has released its first major language model under an open source license. Carl Franzen reports for VentureBeat that the model, called Inkling, targets enterprises that want to run AI on their own servers while keeping costs low and avoiding ideological filtering. …
Google has released Gemma 4 12B, an open-weights multimodal AI model designed to run entirely on a standard laptop with 16 GB of VRAM or unified memory. The model is available now for free download and marks a notable step toward powerful AI that operates offline, without sending data to the cloud. The model is …
Google has launched Gemini Omni, a new artificial intelligence model that accepts text, images, audio, and video as input and produces video output. The company describes it as natively multimodal, meaning a single model handles all content types rather than passing tasks between separate systems. The first release in the family, Gemini Omni Flash, is …
Thinking Machines, the AI startup co-founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, has announced a research preview of what it calls “interaction models” — AI systems designed to perceive and respond in real time rather than waiting for a user to finish speaking or typing. Current AI models work in turns: the user sends an …
Nvidia has launched Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an open AI model that combines text, vision and audio processing in a single system. Most existing AI agent systems rely on separate models for each modality, which increases latency and cost. Nvidia says its new model eliminates that fragmentation. The model uses a hybrid mixture-of-experts architecture with …
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.7, its most capable publicly available AI model. The company says the model performs better than its predecessor, Claude Opus 4.6, across software engineering, document analysis, and visual tasks. One of the model’s key traits is self-verification. In internal tests, Opus 4.7 built a text-to-speech engine in the Rust programming …
Meta has released Muse Spark, a new proprietary artificial intelligence model built by its internal division Meta Superintelligence Labs. The model is available through the Meta AI app and website, with a private API preview for select users. Unlike Meta’s previous Llama models, Muse Spark is not open source. Muse Spark can process text and …
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 …
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 …
OpenAI has released GPT‑5.4, a new AI model designed for professional tasks such as coding, document creation, spreadsheet analysis, and multi‑step workflows. The company positions the model as its most capable system for knowledge work and software development so far. The model is available across ChatGPT, the OpenAI API, and the company’s coding tool Codex. …