New features, redesigns and business moves in AI products and apps: which got better, pricier or finally usable.
Ian Buck, vice president of hyperscale and high-performance computing at NVIDIA, Tuesday spoke on AI factory efficiency at the AI Infra Summit, the Santa Clara Convention Center event that has morphed into a Coachella of infrastructure tech.
Introducing ChatGPT for Financial Services, combining built-in financial data and GPT-6 Astra for research, modeling, and client-ready materials.
Build and launch cloud agents with the Agents API, a managed service powered by the Codex harness for orchestration, long-running sessions, and tool use.
AlphaGenome Atlas maps the molecular effects of 9 billion single-letter DNA variants across the human genome.
ChatGPT Images 2.5 helps turn your ideas, sketches, and reference photos into more personalized, polished images that better reflect your ideas.
In controlled offline evaluations, HydraFusion’s selective coding workflows matched or exceeded the evaluated Opus 5 baseline while reducing estimated workflow cost. Now available as a research preview in GitHub Copilot.
Hugging Face released funes, an open-source persistent memory layer for Claude Code, Codex, pi, Hermes and other coding agents. It indexes existing local sessions and performs embedding and reranking locally by default.
Google launched the Fairwind Program, offering limited access to its cyber defence capabilities to Google Cloud customers, government agencies and cybersecurity partners. The initial offering includes Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber and the CodeMender toolchain for autonomously discovering, validating and fixing vulnerabilities.
Google DeepMind introduced agentic video understanding for Gemini 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite, reducing video analysis token use by up to 88% and costs by up to 66%, while improving accuracy by up to 7%.
Hugging Face’s WebAI team released @huggingface/kernels, a lightweight library for loading and running optimised WebGPU kernels from the Hugging Face Hub. An initial collection of 207 kernels is also available as separate repositories under Apache-2.0.
Voice Arena and Hugging Face added Monsoon en-IN and Monsoon hi-IN evaluation datasets to Open ASR Leaderboard, making Hindi its first Indian language.
Hugging Face introduced gr.Workflow in Gradio to describe multi-step AI pipelines as graphs of typed nodes. Gradio provides a draggable canvas where each node can run and every intermediate result is visible.
Liquid AI released DSpark draft model checkpoints for LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct, LFM2.5-2.6B and LFM2.5-8B-A1B. Speculative decoding accelerates decoding without changing output quality, increasing throughput by up to 3.18 times on GPUs and 2.87 times on devices.
The retrieval layer that helps AI systems navigate, read, and verify information inside even the most complex documents
Sentence Transformers v6.0 adds a fourth model type, MultiVectorEncoder, for ColBERT-style late-interaction retrieval. It directly loads PyLate, Stanford-NLP ColBERT checkpoints and visual document retrieval models from colpali-engine.
NVIDIA released Magpie TTS Multilingual, a 364M-parameter open-weight speech synthesis model supporting English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Hindi and Japanese, plus newly added Modern Standard Arabic, Korean and Brazilian Portuguese, for 12 languages in total.
Orchard is an open-source framework for the research community to train and evaluate AI agents across task types. It reduces complexity while supporting strong performance from smaller models by enabling researchers to reuse the same infrastructure.
Hugging Face introduced Nunchaku Lite into Diffusers, allowing Nunchaku quantised checkpoints to load directly with from_pretrained(), without custom pipelines or local CUDA compilation.
Hugging Face released Grabette, an open-source system recording manipulation demonstrations with a handheld gripper and two cameras, producing robot-ready datasets without robots or teleoperation equipment. The handheld hardware costs about €490 in materials, with the accompanying motorised Gripette gripper around €120. Hardware CAD, Raspberry Pi collection software and browser-based processing are all open-source.
Hugging Face announced that vLLM’s transformers modelling backend now matches or exceeds the throughput of vLLM’s handwritten native implementations across several LLM architectures. It uses torch.fx for static graph analysis and ast to rewrite source code, dynamically applying inference-related layer fusion at runtime to match custom-code performance.