General
- Google announces: Private AI Compute: our next step in building private and helpful AI. The claim is access to cloud-based AI compute that is completely private; the instance data will not be seen by Google or others.
- Anthropic invests $50 billion in American AI infrastructure.
Research Insights
- Google introduces Nested Learning: A new ML paradigm for continual learning.
- Google: Teaching AI to see the world more like we do.
- Microsoft: The Era of Agentic Organization: Learning to Organize with Language Models.
LLM
- Kimi K2 Thinking (open source, weights), 1T params (32B active). Strong performance, including record-setting 51% on Humanity’s Last Exam.
- Gemini adds a File Search Tool in the API.
- OpenAI unveils a small update: GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT, with improved conversational tone.
Audio
- ElevenLabs releases Music.
- ElevenLabs releases Scribe v2 Realtime. Extremely fast and accurate realtime (150 ms) voice transcription. (And LiveCaptions for captioning live events or broadcasts.)
World Synthesis
- World Labs announces Marble, for generating/exploring 3D worlds.
Science
- ChemTorch: A Deep Learning Framework for Benchmarking and Developing Chemical Reaction Property Prediction Models.
- Project OSSAS: Custom LLMs to process 100 Million Research Papers (formerly Project AELLA; models, visualizer). An effort to make science more accessible via widescale structured summarization.
- Olympiad-level formal mathematical reasoning with reinforcement learning.
Cars
- Waymo expands to include freeways.
Robots