Ai2 released Molmo 2, an open-source multimodal model family with state-of-the-art video understanding capabilities including object tracking and temporal reasoning, trained on significantly less data than comparable models while outperforming proprietary systems like Gemini 3 on key benchmarks.
Ai2 released Molmo 2, an open-source multimodal model family with state-of-the-art video understanding capabilities including object tracking and temporal reasoning, trained on significantly less data than comparable models while outperforming proprietary systems like Gemini 3 on key benchmarks.
The Allen Institute for AI released OLMo 3.1 less than a month after OLMo 3's November launch, featuring two new 32B checkpoints with substantially improved reasoning and instruction-following capabilities achieved through extended reinforcement learning training.
Databricks raised $4 billion at a $134 billion valuation while reporting a $4.8 billion revenue run-rate and over 55% year-over-year growth. Databricks' reported revenue run-rate was fueled by its AI products and data warehousing businesses, each exceeding $1 billion in revenue run-rate.
Kling VIDEO 2.6 generates video with integrated voiceovers, sound effects, and ambient audio in a single pass, eliminating the need to create silent footage for later dubbing. VIDEO 2.6 generates videos up to 10 seconds long and supports Chinese and English voices.
Runway launched GWM-1, its first general world model family with three variants for explorable environments, conversational avatars, and robotic training. The company also updated its video generation model, Gen-4.5, with native audio generation and multi-shot editing capabilities.
OpenAI's very busy week, from its funding round to its model launches; Clay's $100M Series C; Lovable's new unicorn status; Latent Labs' new no-code web interface; Google DeepMind's Aeneas; FuriosaAI's new partnership with LG AI Research; and more
Apple reportedly considering third-party AI technologies to power the new Siri; Clio acquired vLex; Tech companies score two victories in copyright infringement rulings; Synthflow AI's Series A; Abridge's Series E; Harvey's $300M Series E; and more.
Meta's controversial partial acquisition of Scale AI, Microsoft's Sora-powered video generator, Moments Lab's Series B, Anysphere's third funding round, Multiverse Computing's Series B, a deep learning-assisted painting restoration technique, and more.
