California-based Applied Compute, which helps companies develop and deploy open-weight AI models, is in talks to raise hundreds of millions of dollars at approximately a $3 billion valuation in a funding round led by investor Elad Gil.
Meta Superintelligence Labs released Muse Spark, its first frontier AI model and first without open weights, marking a significant shift from Meta's open-source strategy. The model now powers Meta AI app and Meta.ai website.
Google's DeepMind released Gemma 4, a family of four open-weight AI models ranging from edge devices to workstations, marking the first time Google has used the fully open Apache 2.0 license instead of its previous restricted licensing. The models support up to 256K context windows and 140+ languages.
