NVIDIA has introduced the Nemotron ColEmbed V2, a new family of late-interaction embedding models designed for multimodal retrieval, achieving state-of-the-art performance on the ViDoRe V3 benchmark.


Mistral AI has unveiled two new speech-to-text models, Voxtral Mini Transcribe V2 and Voxtral Realtime, designed for fast and efficient translation across 13 languages. These models can run locally on devices, offering a cost-effective alternative to larger competitors.




Elon Musk's SpaceX has acquired xAI in a record-setting merger valued at $1.25 trillion, aiming to enhance capabilities in building orbital data centers and preparing for a potential IPO.










Anthropic's Claude successfully plotted a route for NASA's Perseverance Rover on Mars, marking the first use of an AI model for this task. The mission involved complex decision-making typically handled by human planners.