The engineering of running models: inference optimisation, memory and cost, serving architecture and infrastructure choices.
Google Research published an architecture attaching multi-token prediction (MTP) heads to frozen Gemini Nano v3 models, accelerating on-device inference without changing backbone weights. It has shipped with the Pixel 9 and 10 series.
Mistral AI added new Connectors capabilities. Admin controls for workspace- or organisation-level access and individual tool toggles are generally available, as are API keys scoped to connectors.
Mistral released OCR 4, returning bounding boxes, block-type classifications and per-page and per-word confidence alongside text extraction. It supports 170 languages and single-container self-hosting. Independent annotators preferred OCR 4 on average 72% of the time in blind evaluations of over 600 documents. It scored 85.20 on OlmOCRBench and 93.07 on OmniDocBench, though Mistral warns both benchmarks have known scoring limitations.
Google DeepMind released experimental open-source model DiffusionGemma, generating text blocks in parallel through text diffusion and achieving up to 4 times faster inference on dedicated GPUs.
Mistral released an AI stack for industrial engineering at AI Now Summit 2026, partnering with Airbus, BMW and ASML to optimise design, simulation and production while retaining control over proprietary data and IP.
Mistral AI signed a definitive agreement this week to acquire Physics AI pioneer Emmi AI, strengthening its AI transformation services for industrial companies. Founded in Austria, Emmi AI has over 30 researchers and engineers focusing on large engineering models that replace days of computation with real-time simulation and build digital twins. Its co-founders and team will join Mistral's Science and Applied AI teams in May.
Mistral released Connectors in Studio. Built-in connectors and custom MCP are available through API/SDK for all model and agent calls, currently in public preview.
Google announced the expansion of content transparency and verification tools to Search, Gemini, Chrome, Pixel and Cloud. SynthID has watermarked over 100 billion images and videos and 60,000 years of audio. SynthID verification in the Gemini app has been used 50 million times and will reach Search and Chrome in the coming weeks.
Mistral AI released Workflows in public preview, positioning it as an enterprise AI orchestration layer with durable execution, observability and fault tolerance to take AI workflows from proof of concept to production.
Google DeepMind published a paper proposing Decoupled DiLoCo, splitting large-scale training into decoupled compute islands that communicate through asynchronous data streams, isolating local hardware failures.
Google Research released TurboQuant, compressing the KV cache to three bits without loss of model accuracy or training and fine-tuning, alongside the QJL and PolarQuant methods.
The AIMS collaboration between Google Research and several NHS organisations published two companion studies in Nature Cancer evaluating an AI breast cancer detection system within NHS screening workflows.
Mistral AI launched Forge, a system for enterprises to build frontier-class AI models on proprietary knowledge, supporting pre-training, post-training and reinforcement learning. It handles dense and MoE architectures and, when needed, multimodal inputs, with training and governance on companies' own infrastructure.
Mistral AI released Mistral OCR 3 with an overall 74% win rate against Mistral OCR 2 on forms, scans, complex tables and handwriting. The company says its accuracy exceeds enterprise document-processing and AI-native OCR solutions.
Mistral released the Mistral 3 family, comprising 14B, 8B and 3B small dense models and its strongest yet Mistral Large 3, a sparse MoE with 41B active and 675B total parameters. All are open-source under Apache 2.0.
Mistral released Mistral AI Studio, a production AI platform for enterprise teams built on three pillars: Observability, Agent Runtime and AI Registry.
Mistral AI released Codestral 25.08 and a complete enterprise coding stack comprising Codestral, Codestral Embed, Devstral and the Mistral Code IDE plugin.
Mistral AI launched Mistral Compute, a private integrated AI infrastructure stack covering GPUs, orchestration, APIs, products and services, ranging from bare-metal servers to fully managed PaaS.
Mistral released Mistral Code, an AI coding assistant combining Codestral, Codestral Embed, Devstral and Mistral Medium. It supports cloud, dedicated-capacity and local air-gapped GPU deployment, keeping code within enterprise boundaries.
Mistral AI released its first code-focused embedding model, Codestral Embed, outperforming Voyage Code 3, Cohere Embed v4.0 and OpenAI's large embedding model on real-world code retrieval.