Palantir CEO Alex Karp has launched a public attack on major AI model developers, accusing them of attempting to make businesses dependent on their platforms and warning about broader strategic implications for U.S. competitiveness against China in the AI race.
Amazon is redesigning its AI data center campus in rural Indiana, consolidating multiple facilities into a single powerful cluster while deprioritizing most of its Nova models to focus engineering talent and computing resources on developing next-generation frontier AI systems.
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence foundation model that analyzes routine polysomnography data to identify patients' long-term health risks, with high-risk patients showing twice the mortality risk over five years compared to low-risk patients. The study, published in Nature Communications, demonstrates that sleep studies contain far more predictive health information than currently utilized by clinicians.
Moonshot AI secured access to approximately 20,000 Nvidia Hopper generation chips through a computing agreement with Alibaba's cloud services to train its Kimi K3 AI model, demonstrating China's continued access to advanced US chip technology despite export restrictions.
Military researchers in China have utilized outputs from leading American artificial intelligence models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic to train domestic AI systems aimed at advancing China's defense capabilities, according to an exclusive Reuters report.
Researchers have developed a neuroimaging AI foundation model trained on routine clinical CT and MRI scans that achieves state-of-the-art diagnostic performance, highlighting a shift toward using real-world health system data over controlled trial data—a trend that regulatory frameworks have not yet addressed.
Thinking Machines has released Inkling-Small, an open-weights Mixture-of-Experts transformer model with 276 billion parameters that achieves performance comparable to its larger predecessor Inkling while being one-quarter the size.
Beijing-based AI startup Moonshot AI has secured $3.5 billion in funding at a $35 billion valuation, far exceeding its initial $1-2 billion target. The round follows the company's release of its K3 model, which approached the performance of frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic.
Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 5, a new AI model that approaches the intelligence capabilities of its Claude Fable 5 model while being offered at half the price. The model is designed for coding and knowledge work tasks.
Chinese AI company Moonshot AI has released the full weights of its Kimi K3 model, making the 2.8 trillion parameter system freely downloadable. The release raises questions about deployment practicality and trust in Chinese open-weight models despite the technical milestone.
NVIDIA has formed a long-term strategic partnership with Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), the AI safety startup founded by former OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever. The deal includes an investment in SSI and provides the company access to NVIDIA's Vera Rubin computing systems, expanding SSI's compute capacity by an order of magnitude.
Multiple leaked reports indicate both Anthropic's Fable 5.1 and OpenAI's GPT-6 are targeting August 2026 releases, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reportedly briefing the Trump administration on GPT-6's advanced capabilities including autonomous research and penetration testing.
The launch of Moonshot AI's Kimi model has intensified divisions in Silicon Valley over American AI competitiveness and whether to support open-source AI or restrict Chinese open-source models. Chinese models from startups like DeepSeek and Moonshot AI are gaining U.S. adoption due to their affordability and efficiency.
Meta is upgrading its Meta AI assistant with new autonomous task automation capabilities, including calendar integration, daily briefings, and recurring task management. The features, powered by the Muse Spark 1.1 model, are being rolled out in select markets.
Etched, an AI chip startup founded by three Harvard dropouts in 2022, has closed a $300 million Series C funding round led by Sequoia Capital, more than doubling its valuation to $10.3 billion. The company specializes in chips optimized for transformer-based AI models.
AMD CEO Lisa Su announced that the Helios rack-scale AI infrastructure system was in full production. AMD claims Helios delivers up to 15% more peak theoretical FP4 compute than Nvidia's Vera Rubin NVL72, based on AMD calculations. The system integrates 72 Instinct MI455X GPUs, 18 EPYC “Venice” CPUs and AMD Pensando networking for large-scale AI training and inference.
Advanced Micro Devices and Anthropic have announced a major partnership involving up to $5 billion in investment and the deployment of up to 2 gigawatts of AMD's upcoming Instinct MI450 series GPUs, marking AMD's largest AI infrastructure deal and a significant challenge to Nvidia's dominance in the AI chip market.
Alphabet's Google released three new versions of its Gemini AI model on July 21, 2026—Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber—while providing no timeline for its flagship Gemini 3.5 Pro model, which has missed its June launch target by several weeks.
The Trump administration is implementing new controls over access to frontier AI models through executive action, fundamentally shifting power dynamics from tech companies to the federal government in determining who can use advanced AI systems.
Meta Platforms is reportedly in early-stage negotiations to lease computing infrastructure to Anthropic in a potential deal worth up to $10 billion over two years, which would provide the AI startup with data center capacity to run its Claude AI models.
Moonshot AI unveiled its Kimi K3 model, described as the world's largest open-weights AI system, which the company claims matches or exceeds OpenAI and Anthropic's leading models on some benchmarks. The release triggered market volatility in AI and semiconductor stocks as investors drew comparisons to last year's 'DeepSeek moment.'
Released July 15, 2026 by Thinking Machines Lab, Inkling is a 975-billion parameter open-weights Mixture-of-Experts model with 41 billion active parameters, a 1-million-token context window, and native multimodal input support across text, image, audio, and video.
Demis Hassabis called for the creation of a US-based standards body modeled after FINRA to oversee frontier AI systems, requiring labs to share models for review up to 30 days before public release to assess national security risks including cybersecurity and biological threats.
Multiple major AI companies including OpenAI, Meta, and SpaceX released new AI models in early July 2026, with a focus on cost efficiency rather than just capability. OpenAI's release followed U.S. government clearance, while Meta announced its own custom AI chip production and entered the AI coding market.
Cognition released SWE-1.7, its most capable AI model to date, which the company says performs within a few points of leading frontier models while offering significantly reduced costs and 1000 tokens per second speed. The company reports continued gains from scaling reinforcement learning.
Chinese AI models from companies like DeepSeek and Z.ai are gaining traction among U.S. companies, now representing over 30% of traffic on OpenRouter, as they cost significantly less than OpenAI and Anthropic while narrowing the performance gap.
Etched, a startup developing specialized AI inference chips for Transformer models, announced it has secured $1 billion in contract orders and raised $800 million in funding, reaching a $5 billion valuation after TSMC successfully manufactured its Sohu chip.
Chinese food delivery giant Meituan has open-sourced LongCat-2.0, a 1.6 trillion-parameter AI model that the company claims was trained entirely on Chinese-made chips using a 50,000-chip cluster. The release demonstrates China's growing capability to develop large-scale AI models without relying on Nvidia hardware amid U.S. export restrictions.
Sakana AI unveiled Fugu and Fugu Ultra on June 22, 2026, a multi-agent orchestration system that coordinates multiple AI models to match performance of leading models like Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos without training its own frontier model. The approach aims to reduce single-vendor dependency in enterprise AI deployments.
Noam Shazeer, a vice president of engineering at Google and co-lead of its Gemini AI models, announced he is leaving to join OpenAI. Shazeer previously spent 20 years at Google before co-founding Character.AI in 2021, which Google acquired in 2024 for $2.7 billion.
World model AI startup Odyssey ML, founded by self-driving vehicle pioneers, secured $310 million in funding at a $1.45 billion valuation. The round was backed by Amazon, Nvidia, AMD, CIA-linked fund IQT, and Google chief scientist Jeff Dean.
Some firms selected by Anthropic to test its Mythos AI model before wider release have preserved access to preview versions, despite a June 12 US government export control directive that forced the company to shut down its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models within 90 minutes. The order, which involved concerns about SK Telecom's alleged ties to China, has sparked debate about the legality and scope of the Trump administration's AI export restrictions.
Anthropic has launched Claude Fable 5, a Mythos-class AI model made available to the general public two months after the company initially rolled out Mythos to a limited number of users. The public version includes safety guardrails blocking responses in high-risk areas like cybersecurity and biology.
Google has launched Gemma 4 12B, an open-source AI model that can analyze audio and video while running entirely on enterprise laptops with 16GB of RAM, marking a focus on smaller, locally-deployable models rather than larger cloud-based alternatives.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 on May 28, 2026, just 41 days after its predecessor, featuring improved performance on benchmarks and new dynamic workflow capabilities. The launch coincided with the company raising $65 billion in new funding.
NVIDIA AI released Gated DeltaNet-2, a linear attention layer that decouples erase and write operations in the delta rule, addressing memory editing challenges in fixed-size recurrent states without scrambling existing associations.
Andrej Karpathy, who co-founded OpenAI and previously led Tesla's AI division, has joined Anthropic's pre-training team. Karpathy announced the move on social media, marking his latest position in the AI industry.
Alibaba Group Holding has released its flagship AI model Qwen3.8-Max with 2.4 trillion parameters, making it accessible via QwenCloud. The company plans to release the model's weights for public download the week of August 10, with benchmarks showing performance approaching Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.
Anthropic has agreed to terms on a $30 billion fundraise that would value the Claude AI developer at $900 billion pre-money, according to Financial Times reporting. The round could close soon and involves OpenAI-linked investors.
NVIDIA researchers have introduced Star Elastic, a post-training method that embeds multiple nested reasoning models at 30B, 23B, and 12B parameter scales inside a single checkpoint, enabling zero-shot model slicing without retraining.
OpenAI launched Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC), a new open networking protocol developed with AMD, Broadcom, Intel, Microsoft, and NVIDIA to improve GPU networking performance in large-scale AI training infrastructure.
Anthropic secured access to over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs at SpaceX's Colossus One data center in Memphis under a new partnership, providing more than 300 megawatts of computing capacity weeks before SpaceX's anticipated $1.75 trillion IPO.
The Trump administration is drafting requirements for AI companies including Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI to share advanced models with the Commerce Department's Center for AI Standards and Innovation for security testing before public release. This represents a significant policy reversal from the administration's earlier stance against AI regulation.
Mistral has launched Medium 3.5, a new flagship model that consolidates previously separate models for chat, reasoning, and code into a single product. The French AI company is also adding asynchronous cloud agents to its platform.
Former Google DeepMind researcher David Silver raised a record $1.1 billion seed funding for Ineffable Intelligence, a British AI lab founded months ago focused on building AI that learns without human data. The company is valued at $5.1 billion.
Google is investing $10 billion in cash and up to $30 billion conditionally in Anthropic at a $350 billion valuation, plus 5GW of compute over five years, as Claude reaches $30 billion in annual recurring revenue and overtakes Gemini in enterprise markets.
Canadian AI company Cohere is acquiring Aleph Alpha, once positioned as Germany's answer to OpenAI, just months after the German startup's founder was ousted. The Schwarz Group is providing $600 million in financing for the transatlantic merger.
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek released preview versions of its V4-Pro and V4-Flash models featuring up to 1.6 trillion parameters and one-million-token context windows, claiming to close the gap with frontier models while maintaining significantly lower pricing than US competitors.
White House science advisor Michael Kratsios accused China-based entities of conducting 'industrial-scale' campaigns to copy frontier AI models from US companies through distillation techniques. The Trump administration is moving toward countermeasures.
Google announced its eighth-generation Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) developed with Broadcom, alongside a new Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform and Workspace Intelligence AI layer. The company is positioning itself as the only provider with a complete AI stack from chips to applications.
Chinese AI company DeepSeek is preparing to release its new-generation large language model, DeepSeek V4, with a trillion parameters by the end of April, coinciding with its first funding round at over $10 billion valuation.
Anthropic has reportedly flipped from money-loser to revenue powerhouse with annualized revenue now exceeding $30 billion, possibly surpassing OpenAI. Investors are discussing valuations ranging from $380 billion to as high as $1 trillion.
NVIDIA has released Ising, the first open quantum AI model family designed for hybrid quantum-classical computing systems, marking a significant step in making quantum computing more accessible for practical applications.
Robotics startup Physical Intelligence unveiled π0.7, a new robot control model that can figure out tasks it was never explicitly trained on. The company describes it as an early step toward a general-purpose robot brain.
OpenAI released GPT-Rosalind, its first specialized life sciences AI model designed to accelerate drug discovery and genomics research. The model aims to reduce the typical 10-15 year drug discovery timeline through advanced biochemistry and genomics capabilities.
OpenAI launched GPT-5.4-Cyber, a model specifically trained for defensive cybersecurity applications, with access initially restricted to verified security experts. The release follows Anthropic's Mythos model and represents OpenAI's strategic response in the cybersecurity AI space.
Alibaba led a $290 million funding round for ShengShu, a three-year-old Chinese startup developing AI models that aim to connect perception and action, moving beyond traditional large language models. ShengShu founder Zhu Jun stated the company aims to build models that are more general than LLMs.
Anthropic debuted a powerful new AI model called Mythos as part of Project Glasswing, a cybersecurity partnership with Nvidia, Google, AWS, Apple, Microsoft and other major companies for defensive security work.
Microsoft's MAI division released three new foundation models: MAI-Transcribe-1 (speech-to-text in 25 languages, 2.5x faster than Azure Fast), MAI-Voice-1 (audio generation), and an image generation model. The transcription model costs $0.36 per audio hour.
Amazon has invested an additional $4 billion in Anthropic, bringing its total investment in the OpenAI rival to $8 billion. As part of the expanded partnership, Anthropic has designated Amazon Web Services as its primary cloud and training partner, committing to train its flagship AI models primarily on AWS infrastructure including Trainium chips.
Amazon has invested an additional $4 billion in Anthropic, bringing its total investment in the OpenAI rival to $8 billion. As part of the expanded partnership, Anthropic has designated Amazon Web Services as its primary cloud and training partner, committing to train its flagship AI models primarily on AWS infrastructure including Trainium chips.
