Models

A Caltech spinout backed by Khosla Ventures has released a family of fully 1-bit language models under Apache 2.0 that compress an 8-billion-parameter model to 1.15 GB while matching full-precision rivals on standard benchmarks.

Google DeepMind shipped four Gemma 4 model variants on April 2 under the OSI-approved Apache 2.0 license, replacing the restrictive Gemma Terms of Use and removing all barriers to commercial deployment, modification, and redistribution.

Google's new Gemini 3.1 Flash Live model brings acoustic awareness, doubled context length, and tool-use capabilities to real-time voice AI, rolling out globally via Gemini Live and Search Live.

Google Gemini and Anthropic Claude both ship tools to import rival chatbot data, signaling that user lock-in is now a front in the AI platform war.

Google's AI design tool gains voice commands, multi-screen generation, and developer tool integrations, triggering a two-day selloff in Figma shares.

Nvidia open-sources a 30B mixture-of-experts model that activates only 3B parameters yet matches DeepSeek's 671B model on olympiad-level math and coding benchmarks.

The French AI startup ships its first text-to-speech model under open weights, offering enterprises voice cloning from three seconds of audio and 70-millisecond latency across nine languages.

OpenAI discontinues its Sora video generation app, ends a three-year Disney licensing deal, and redirects compute to a new model codenamed Spud ahead of a potential IPO.

An anonymous trillion-parameter AI model that topped OpenRouter usage charts and triggered widespread speculation about a stealth DeepSeek V4 launch turned out to be Xiaomi's MiMo-V2-Pro, signaling the smartphone and EV maker's escalating ambitions in the AI model race.

Meta postpones its next-generation Avocado AI model by at least two months after benchmarks show it trailing rivals, raising questions about the company's $135 billion AI investment.

Alibaba releases four open-source Qwen 3.5 Small models ranging from 0.8 to 9 billion parameters, delivering multimodal reasoning on consumer hardware while the 9B variant outperforms models up to 13 times its size on key benchmarks.

OpenAI releases its most capable model yet with autonomous computer operation and enterprise integrations, but the launch is overshadowed by Pentagon deal fallout and a reported 1.5 million user exodus.