Yan Junjie picked a rough week to make a grand gesture. On the exact day MiniMax’s stock cratered following a mass lockup expiry, the 36-year-old founder, chairman, and CTO issued an internal memo pledging to take zero salary until the…
Generative AI has made it trivially cheap to produce ad creative that never touched a camera, a couch photographed in a studio and a couch rendered entirely by a model now look identical to the person scrolling past it. Many…
Browser-based machine learning has spent years running on a compromise. TensorFlow.js let developers run models client-side, but its JavaScript kernels never came close to the performance of native mobile runtimes. Google introduced LiteRT.js on July 9, bringing its LiteRT on-device…
Meta shipped its second model from Meta Superintelligence Labs on July 9, just two days after launching Muse Image, its first standalone image generator. Muse Spark 1.1 is a different animal entirely: a multimodal reasoning model built to plan, delegate,…
OpenAI made GPT-5.6 generally available on July 9 after a limited preview that began on June 26 for a small group of trusted partners. The company said the rollout will happen in phases over about 24 hours. OpenAI also said…
Meta shipped its first image-generation model built entirely in-house on July 7, and the technical story got buried within a day. Muse Image, developed by Meta Superintelligence Labs under Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang, lets anyone inside the Meta AI…
Nubia, ZTE’s AI-focused smartphone sub-brand, says it will unveil what it’s calling the world’s first AI agent smartphone at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai, running July 17 to 20. Ni Fei, ZTE’s senior vice president and head of…
SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5 on Wednesday, its first model since xAI formally dissolved into SpaceX earlier this year and the company’s first release built jointly with Cursor, the coding assistant startup SpaceX agreed to acquire for $60 billion in a…
Anthropic was hours away from cutting off free access to Claude Fable 5 when it reversed course. The company had planned to move the model back to paid, usage-credit-only billing on July 7 or 8, but after visible pushback from…
China’s industry ministry issued a formal cybersecurity warning against a US AI company’s flagship coding tool on Wednesday. The move marks the latest escalation in a dispute between Anthropic and Chinese tech firms. The warning was published through the Ministry…