
Microsoft Adds Anthropic AI Models to Copilot 365, Expanding Beyond OpenAI
Microsoft added Anthropic’s Claude models to Microsoft 365 Copilot—starting with Researcher and Copilot Studio—broadening model choice beyond OpenAI
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Microsoft added Anthropic’s Claude models to Microsoft 365 Copilot—starting with Researcher and Copilot Studio—broadening model choice beyond OpenAI

Google has introduced Mixboard, an AI-powered mood board app available in U.S. beta, designed to rival Pinterest and Canva with AI-driven creativity.

Luma AI’s Ray3 debuts with Adobe Firefly integration, enabling reasoning-based video generation, HDR EXR output, and creative workflows in Creative Cloud.

Gemini 2.5 Deep Think earned ICPC 2025 gold in Baku, solving 10/12 problems—including one no human solved—in under 30 minutes, with a 677-minute combined time.

Seedream 4.0 merges generation and editing, adds six-image reference consistency and natural-language edits, delivers 2K outputs in <2s, and leads blind arenas.

CAS unveils SpikingBrain1.0, a brain-inspired LLM trained on MetaX GPUs with hybrid-linear attention, reporting 100× TTFT at 4M tokens and high sparsity for low power.

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.

Google Translate broadens into learning with AI-personalized practice and Gemini-based live conversations, backed by 1T monthly translated words across Google services.