Meituan's LongCat-2.5 packs 1.6 trillion parameters into a multimodal AI built for complex agentic tasks. Here's what it does and why it matters.

DeepSeek just landed yet another punch in the arms race for AI's price/performance ratio – and this punch has eyes.

DeepSeek released an experimental multimodal model on Friday and said its agent performance is close to Anthropic’s Opus-4.8. On DeepSeek’s own published table, it beats that model on three benchmarks ...

Google (GOOG) (GOOGL) on Tuesday unveiled its multimodal Gemini Embedding 2 artificial intelligence model, the tech giant's newest model that maps text, images, video, audio, and documents into a ...

Liquid AI LFM3 ships 6 open-weight 2B-class models; LFM3-1.7B averages 49.37 across 29 self-reported benchmarks, above ...

Google has launched Gemini 3.0, its most advanced AI model to date. The company says that the latest AI model marks a significant milestone in AI development, as Gemini 3.0 demonstrates ...

Cloudflare's Clef-omni is a 30B-A3B open-weight decision model that scores audio, video, image and text in one call.

The race between open and closed AI is on, and Europe is still in the mix. On Tuesday, French AI lab Mistral AI released Mistral Large 4 (ML4), a new large multimodal model aiming to leapfrog both ...

Credit: VentureBeat made with OpenAI ChatGPT-2.0-Images Enterprises looking to move more of their agentic AI workloads to open weights models they can customize, control and run on-premises or in ...

To create coherent images or videos, generative AI diffusion models like Stable Diffusion or FLUX have typically relied on external "teachers"—frozen encoders like CLIP or DINOv2—to provide the ...