Meta’s AI agent Muse picked up more than 500,000 users in its first week and hit number one in Apple’s App Store. But Meta admits the product is “heavily…
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Inside Basecamp Research, the AI startup turning evolution into training data
Basecamp Research has raised $140 million from investors including Nvidia and Anthropic’s Anthology Fund. The London company trains AI models on genetic…
Alibaba launches Qwen Audio 3.1 with new models and slashes AI audio prices by up to 95 percent
Alibaba’s AI team Qwen has released Qwen-Audio-3.1, a lineup of five models for speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), and real-time interaction.…
OpenAI hires Patreon co-founder Sam Yam to lead a new Creator Product division
OpenAI has hired Patreon co-founder Sam Yam to lead a new “Creator Product” division. After more than 13 years at the creator platform, he’s bringing two…
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Sol and Luna cut prices in half but barely move the needle on performance
With GPT-6 Sol and Luna, OpenAI adds two cheaper models that deliver their predecessors’ performance at half the token price and take aim at Anthropic’s…
Claude Opus 5.5 matches Fable 5.1 performance at lower cost and promises less “Claudish” writing
Anthropic is launching Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in a new generation. The company says it matches Claude Fable 5.1 on most tasks while costing…
Claude Opus 5.5 matches Fable 5.1 at 40 percent lower cost as Anthropic promises to fix “Claudish” writing
Anthropic is launching Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in a new generation. The company says it matches Claude Fable 5.1 on most tasks while costing…
OpenAI calls for international standards on AI that could improve itself
OpenAI wants international standards for recursive self-improvement, where AI systems independently build the next generation of AI. Without safeguards,…
A tiny software layer from lab-grown neurons promises faster, cheaper AI video
The Biological Computing Co. wants to team up with AWS to sell a text-to-video model that’s supposed to run five times faster and 80 percent cheaper…
Xiaomi’s affordable flagship AI leads the open models, and Anthropic says Claude helped get it there
With MiMo-V2.6-Pro, Xiaomi moves to the top of the openly available AI models and drastically undercuts the competition on price. What makes that possible…