✉️ Everything else in AI today

💻 Alibaba introduced Qwen3-Max, a 1T+ model that surpasses other Qwen3 variants, Kimi K2, Deepseek V3.1, and Claude Opus 4 (non-reasoning) across benchmarks.

📱 OpenAI revealed that it plans to burn through $115B in cash over the next four years due to data center, talent, and compute costs, an $80B increase over its projections.

📱 French AI startup Mistral is reportedly raising $1.7B in a new Series C funding round, which will make it the most valuable company in Europe with a $11.7B valuation.

📱 OpenAI Model Behavior lead Joanne Jang announced OAI Labs, a team dedicated to “inventing and prototyping new interfaces for how people collaborate with AI.”

📝A group of authors filed a class action lawsuit against Apple, accusing the tech giant of training its OpenELM LLMs using a pirated dataset of books

🔴 Trending AI Tools 🔴

🖥 EmbeddingGemma - Google’s open-source, on-device embedding model

😂 Lovable Voice Mode - Code and build apps with voice commands

😵 Qwen3-Max - Alibaba’s massive new 1T parameter model

😱 Higgsfield Ads 2.0 - Create realistic custom AI product placement ads

👀 OpenAI backs AI movie “Critterz”

OpenAI supports full AI-made animated film → budget under $30M, done in 9 months.

Details:
• Uses GPT-5 + image models for animation
• Human actors still voice characters
• Cannes 2026 debut planned
• Characters first made with DALL·E by Chad Nelson

Why it matters: AI could slash Hollywood costs + time. Biggest test = if audiences accept an openly AI film.

⚡️ Everything else in AI today ⚡️

⚡️Anthropic published a blog endorsing California’s SB 53 bill, which would require AI companies to publish AI safety frameworks and transparency reports.

⚡️Google introduced learning tools to NotebookLM, including customizable flashcards and quizzes, redesigned reports, and interactive notebooks for academic textbooks.

⚡️Alibaba released Qwen3-ASR, a speech recognition model with strong accuracy and the ability to handle multilingual voices, singing, accents, and text prompts.

⚡️Cognition announced a new $400M fundraise that brings the Devin-maker’s valuation to $10.2B, coming on the heels of the company’s acquisition of Windsurf.

⚡️Google expanded AI Mode to new languages, including Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese, to provide locally relevant search experiences.

🤫 Trending AI Tools 🤫

😵 Tripo 3.0 - Turn text or images into production-ready 3D assets

😵 Capcut AI Suite - Create, edit, or remix content with AI

😵 AI Mode - Google’s AI-powered search, now available in new languages

😵 Qwen3-ASR - Alibaba’s new speech recognition model

AI Tools Weekly 🚀: Claude upgrades, Google AI Plus, Perplexity Comet boost

🌐 Claude mobile → now finds nearby places with location
🌐 Claude can make Excel, Docs, Slides, PDFs

🔼 Gemini web → new “Select & Ask” in Canvas
🔼 Google AI Plus (Indonesia) → AI tools + 200GB + Gemini in apps

🔥 Jules SWE Agent → now takes image uploads
🔥 Flow + Veo 3 → new aspect ratios, portrait videos for socials

🔥 Perplexity Comet → adds local MCPs → AI can access files + apps, making it a full productivity hub

 

📱Apple was quiet on AI updates at its hardware event, with the only interesting update being Apple Intelligence-powered live translation and health monitoring features.

🌐ByteDance Seed introduced Seedream 4.0, a new image generation and editing model that competes with Nano Banana with 4K outputs and multimodal capabilities.

🤑Baidu launched ERNIE X1.1, a new reasoning model that nears GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro in benchmarks with significant hallucination reduction.

🤖Anthropic released an official report confirming issues in response quality over the last month, reiterating that the company “never intentionally degrades model quality.”

🪐Drugmaking giant Eli Lilly announced the release of TuneLab, an AI drug discovery platform trained on over $1B worth of its proprietary research data.

🤑Tencent open-sourced HunyuanImage 2.1, a new image generation model with high-quality realism, prompt following, and text rendering.

📱 Meta is entering a $140M multi-year partnership with Black Forest Labs to use its AI image tech, coming on the heels of the company’s recent deal with Midjourney.

📱 Google added new capabilities to its Veo 3 and Veo 3 Fast models, including vertical video outputs, 1080p HD resolution, and a 50% decrease in price.

👉Trending AI Tools👈

😵 NotebookLM - New tools like flashcards, quizzes, and redesigned reports

😵 Ideogram Styles - Create consistent aesthetics and stylized typography

😵 HunyuanImage 2.1 - Tencent’s new open-source text-to-image model