Evolution Equity Partners led the Series F for Island's enterprise browser, which positions itself as the security control point for AI-age workflows and data governance.
Alibaba's T-Head Semiconductor division unveiled the Zhenwu V900 at Apsara Conference, competing directly with Huawei's Ascend 960 as US export controls accelerate domestic AI silicon development.
Nous Research integrated Perplexity's Photon Fast Search as the default search backend in Hermes Agent, delivering 160ms p50 latency for agentic search — now free for all tiers.
A strategy-aware multi-stage planning framework using LLMs that generates, revises, and assesses executable plans for complex tasks.
Reproducible 8-stage post-training pipeline (SFT, reasoning/coding/agent RL, RLHF) on GLM-4.5-Air-Base 106B MoE, making advanced post-training fully open-source.
Introduces chance-constrained fine-tuning that bounds safety regression risk on a per-prompt basis rather than controlling average safety loss.
Fixes GRPO credit assignment in tool-calling agents by segment-level advantage computation, preventing structural misattribution across heterogeneous outputs.
Combines resolved prediction-market questions with dated news to create replayable environments for LLM-based forecasting agents.
Separates planning, evidence retrieval, and synthesis into distinct modules, outperforming ReAct-style agents on deep search tasks.
Global operational stock of industrial robots hit 5 million units, up 9%, with annual installations exceeding 600,000. China continues to lead installations.
Tokyo-based O-ID raised pre-seed funding led by TAWANI Ventures for its fully modular humanoid robot, positioned to leverage Japan's $65B physical AI investment initiative.
Epson's AX6 cobot features power- and force-limiting for safe human-robot collaboration without safety barriers, targeting manufacturers facing labor shortages.
Agents can produce on-brand product videos, demos, and customer education content from raw screen recordings entirely through chat. All outputs stay editable.
Handles social media, influencer outreach, PR, and image generation with persistent memory for brand guidelines. Prompt Playbooks automate execution in any language.
Upload files or prompted content to create interactive AI documents, slides, and forms that respond conversationally. No coding required.
Lets coding agents outsource navigation, clicks, and data extraction to lighter sub-tasks, reducing token and time cost by about two-thirds compared to full-agent browsing.
Pershing Square Inc. and Ackman Oxman Institute co-led the Series D for the BCI company developing brain implants without open-skull surgery.
The Series C funds AI training on proprietary biological datasets to accelerate drug discovery and computational biology.
DFJ Growth and Premji Invest co-led the Series C for the AI biotechnology company focused on therapeutic protein design.
Socratic Partners led the Series A for the semiconductor startup developing optical interconnects to solve data movement bottlenecks in AI training clusters.
Free means $0 per token today, not unlimited or unconditional: both platforms rate-limit free use and require a free API key, some OpenRouter free endpoints may train on your prompts unless you opt out in account settings, and the roster changes daily. Verified against each provider's own pricing data at generation time — but pricing changes without notice, so confirm it's still free on the provider's own page before you rely on it.
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