The consumer AI agent platform for booking, purchases and research closed a $1B round led by Sequoia Capital, Benchmark and Coatue, reaching a $10B valuation.
Anthropic's second model in the Claude 5.5 family scores 70.6% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 (up from 10.3% on Sonnet 5), runs 30% faster, and costs up to 30% less per task at the same $2M input token pricing.
NVIDIA's open platform combines OpenShell runtime software and Sentry DPU-based hardware watchdog to secure AI agents from testing to deployment, backed by Anthropic, Microsoft, SpaceXAI and Cisco.
Proposes training LLM reasoners on problems at the edge of their capability rather than a fixed pool, using GRPO with adaptive difficulty selection to improve reasoning generalization.
Bridges looped Transformers (reusing one block multiple times) with sparse mixture-of-experts to push fixed-size models further while activating only a few experts per token.
Demonstrates that existing distillation defenses against model stealing are easily circumvented when the attacker applies RL to the distilled model, recovering frontier-level performance.
Benchmark measuring the verification difficulty of LLM-generated misinformation, quantifying the asymmetry between cheap content production and expensive fact-checking.
Proposes Behavioral Foundation Models (BFMs) for RL, analogous to LLMs in NLP, demonstrating zero-shot performance, fast imitation and online adaptation from diverse behavior trajectories.
UR's Gen 7 refresh includes tool-flange Ethernet/power/I/O ports, plant-scale managed-switch networking, built-in safety controller, CB7 controller and external ROS2 AI compute support for the factory floor.
GMKtec launched the Evo-X5 Pro mini-PC with AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 495, 192GB LPDDR5X-8533 unified memory at 273 GB/s, and up to 120W sustained TDP, enabling local 320B-parameter LLM inference from $6,399.
Faraday Future's FF Master humanoid handles front-desk patient check-in, appointment lookup and wayfinding at Wonderful Life Dental Group, communicating in 50+ languages in the first real-world healthcare deployment of the platform.
Meta launched a new enterprise AI initiative bringing its models, agents and infrastructure to businesses, hiring MongoDB CEO CJ Desai to lead what aims to become Meta's third major business pillar.
A personal AI assistant that lives locally on your computer, launched as the #1 Product of the Day on Product Hunt for September 28.
Developer tool providing visibility and control over coding agent behavior, letting developers monitor and manage AI coding agent actions in real time.
Browser tool that shows responses from ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini in a single tab for direct comparison, with 255 upvotes on Product Hunt.
AI agents that automatically resolve IT and HR support tickets directly inside Slack and Microsoft Teams, with 136 upvotes on Product Hunt.
AI chip startup SiMa.ai closed a $150M round co-led by Fidelity and Amplify for energy-efficient chips running AI on robots, drones and cameras without cloud dependency.
The maritime intelligence company closed a $140M Series B led by Insight Partners at roughly $200M valuation for AI-enabled sensors and analytics targeting defense and shipping sectors.
AI-driven insurance broker platform for small businesses closed a $34.5M Series B led by SignalFire.
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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