Last year, Anthropic PBC released a temporary experience called “Imagine with Claude” that enabled its chatbot to create interactive visuals in real-time without any code, and now the same capability is coming to Claude’s chat conversations. In a blog post today, the company said Claude’s new visualization capabilities are an “expansion” of Imagine with Claude that … Read more
Google LLC has launched another, even more capable preview of its powerful Gemini 2.5 Pro model, proclaiming it to be the “most intelligent” large language model it has released so far. It’s the latest update to Gemini 2.5 Pro, which first debuted in March and was then upgraded as a preview in May, and it … Read more
The founders of the popular generative artificial intelligence benchmarking platform LMArena have said they’re founding an official company called Arena Intelligence Inc. to help them improve the project in future. LMArena’s founders wrote in a blog post on Thursday that the new company will enable it to acquire the resources they need to implement significant … Read more
Google LLC is updating the new “AI Mode” feature in Google Search, introducing multimodal capabilities that allow it to “see” images uploaded by users, so it can better answer their questions. AI Mode was introduced in a limited preview last month for Google One AI Premium subscribers. It’s an experimental feature in Google Search that … Read more
Three renowned cloud innovators are joining forces to create a new startup that’s taking on the extremely daunting challenge of modernizing the labyrinth of configuration data underpinning today’s software-defined world. The company is called ConfigHub Inc., and it has just launched with $4 million in pre-seed funding from Crane Venture Partners, Pear VC and Encoded … Read more
Agentic artificial intelligence startup Browser Use believes it can play a critical role in helping so-called AI agents navigate the web after closing on a $17 million funding round Saturday. Felicis Ventures led the round, which also saw participation from A Capital, Nexus Ventures, Y Combinator, Paul Graham, Liquid2, SV Angel, Pioneer Fund and other … Read more
Israeli startup QuamCore Ltd. wants to help the likes of IBM Corp. and Google LLC scale their quantum computers to the point where they can finally achieve “quantum advantage” and become more useful than existing, classical computers. It has a plan to do that, and after closing on a $9 million seed funding round today, … Read more
Google LLC said today it’s making its experimental artificial intelligence research tool, called Deep Research, available to Gemini Advanced users via the Google Workspace platform. A relatively new feature that was announced last year, it has the ability to explore complex topics and conduct intensive research about them, answering very specific questions the user might … Read more
The synthetic voice startup Eleven Labs Inc. closed on a bumper $250 million Series C funding round, bringing its valuation to between $3 billion and $3.3 billion. According to a Friday report by TechCrunch, the round was led by ICONIQ Growth and saw participation from previous investor Andreessen Horowitz, which was one of the lead … Read more
Instagram chief Adam Mosseri has teased the imminent arrival of new generative artificial intelligence-powered video editing features for the social media application. They’ll arrive soon, allowing users to “change nearly any aspect” of their videos using simple text prompts. They’re powered by parent company Meta Platforms Inc.’s Movie Gen AI model, and will launch sometime next … Read more