Claude 3.7 Sonnet now offers web search for U.S. paid users, citing sources like Reuters. Despite use cases in finance and sales, energy costs and Google’s 90% search dominance loom.
Google’s TxGemma, an open AI suite for drug discovery, integrates with pediatric cancer tools like Capricorn. Despite $60B industry investment, licensing and trial challenges persist.
Tencent’s Hunyuan3D-2.0 generates 3D assets in 30 seconds using multi-modal inputs and a two-stage pipeline, targeting gaming, VR, and industrial design with open-source tools.
Roblox has released Cube 3D, an open-source foundational model for generative AI, enabling developers to create 3D objects and scenes from text prompts. The beta mesh generation API is now available in Roblox Studio.
FireSat, a collaboration between Google Research, Muon Space, and Earth Fire Alliance, uses infrared sensors and AI to detect wildfires within 20 minutes, with a planned 50+ satellite constellation for global coverage.
Baidu launches Ernie 4.5 at 1% of GPT-4.5’s cost and a free AI chatbot, using PaddlePaddle and Kunlun chips to challenge global rivals.
Cohere launched Command A, an AI model requiring only 2 GPUs that matches GPT-4o in enterprise tasks while processing 23 languages and costing 50% less for private deployments.
Manus AI, developed by Butterfly Effect, operates independently using multi-agent systems to execute complex tasks, though crashes and feedback loops highlight early-stage limitations.
Alibaba’s R1-Omni AI combines visual, audio, and textual analysis with RLVR to achieve state-of-the-art emotion recognition, now available open-source for applications in education, customer service, entertainment etc.
