Chinese AI lab Z.ai unmasks the viral anonymous model 'Ox Alpha' as GLM-5.3-Flash, a 320-billion-parameter powerhouse processing 100 trillion tokens daily on Chinese chips, rivaling Claude and Gemini at a fraction of the cost.
Google launches Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, its fastest and most accurate speech-to-text model yet, boasting 70% faster transcription speeds, support for 85+ languages, and smart filler-word filtering — now powering Android's Rambler feature and available to developers via Google AI Studio, threatening to disrupt market leader Wispr Flow.
Nvidia strikes a $6 billion licensing deal with AI startup Poolside, gaining access to cutting-edge coding models and over 100 researchers, as AI model prices plummet industry-wide with OpenAI slashing costs by 20% and competitors like DeepSeek charging as little as $0.66 per million tokens.
China's Z AI unveils the record-breaking GLM-5.3-Flash, built entirely on domestic chips, as OpenAI's Sam Altman claims AGI is months away and small businesses gain a surprising edge over enterprises through deeply discounted AI pricing.
Waymo surpasses 200 million fully autonomous miles and reveals the cutting-edge AI and sensor technology — including multimodal sensors, HD maps, Gemini-powered Vision-Language Models, and an independent onboard safety validator — driving its push toward true Level 4 self-driving at scale.
IBM launches Granite 4.2, a family of open-weight AI models in 3B, 8B, and 30B variants featuring agentic capabilities like web search and tool integration, directly challenging OpenAI and Anthropic as enterprises increasingly seek cost-effective, self-hosted alternatives to expensive cloud-based frontier models.
Google launches Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a powerful new AI speech-to-text model that is 70% faster than its predecessor, supports 85 languages, reduces live-speech error rates, and is already live in Gboard, the Gemini macOS app, and developer tools.
Revolut launches a dedicated AI division and unveils PRAGMA, a proprietary foundation model built with NVIDIA, reporting a 65% fraud detection boost, 2.3x credit risk accuracy improvement, and 41% better personalized recommendations across 80 million customers in over 40 markets.
Anthropic unifies Claude's memory systems across Chat and Cowork, enabling real-time, bidirectional context sharing by default for Free, Pro, and Max users, while automatically excluding sensitive topics like health and politics from storage.
OpenAI unveils its first custom AI inference chip, 'Jalapeño,' claiming industry-leading throughput per kilowatt and lower token latency than competing systems across major model families, while simultaneously expanding its data center infrastructure and driving down AI costs through compounding efficiency gains in hardware, software, and model optimization.