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.
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.
