Built by EPFL, ETH Zurich, and CSCS, Apertus is a fully open LLM trained on 15T tokens across 1,000+ languages, with EU-aligned transparency and access via Swisscom and Public AI.
Microsoft introduces MAI-Voice-1 and MAI-1-preview, a mixture-of-experts model trained on ~15,000 Nvidia H100s, with GB200 compute active and targeted Copilot rollout.
OpenAI and Anthropic opened APIs for cross-lab audits, reporting sycophancy, misuse cooperation, jailbreak resistance differences, and refusal–helpfulness trade-offs.
Google Translate broadens into learning with AI-personalized practice and Gemini-based live conversations, backed by 1T monthly translated words across Google services.
Gemini 2.5 Flash Image debuts with narrative storytelling, style transfer, and real-world reasoning, priced at $0.039 per image with advanced safety filters.
NotebookLM’ Video Overviews expand to 80+ languages, offering native-language video and audio overviews with cultural adaptation and Gemini-powered accuracy.
xAI open-sources Grok 2.5 and pledges Grok 3’s release in six months, highlighting transparency, enterprise benefits, and global AI rivalry.
Meta Partners with Midjourney to expand its creative AI portfolio, licensing V7 and V1 models while pursuing superintelligence ambitions.
Google enhances Gemini Live with object highlighting, app integration, and natural speech features, starting on Pixel 10 and expanding to Android and iOS.
