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French AI startupMistrallaunched its new Mistral 3 family of open-weight models on Tuesday – a 10-model release that includes a large frontier model with multimodal and multilingual capabilities, and nine smaller offline-capable, fully customizable models. The launch comes as Mistral, which develops open-weight language models and a Europe-focused AI chatbot Le Chat, has appeared to […]

Mistral AI, Europe's most prominent artificial intelligence startup, is releasing its most ambitious product suite to date: a family of 10 open-source models designed to run everywhere from smartphones and autonomous drones to enterprise cloud systems, marking a major escalation in the company's challenge to both U.S. tech giants and surging Chinese competitors. The Mistral

While artificial intelligence has stormed into law firms and accounting practices with billion-dollar startups like Harvey leading the charge, the global consulting industry—a $250 billion behemoth—has remained stubbornly analog. A London-based startup founded by former McKinsey consultants is betting $2 million that it can crack open this resistant market, one Excel spreadsheet at a time.

Researchers at MiroMind AI and several Chinese universities have released OpenMMReasoner, a new training framework that improves the capabilities of language models in multimodal reasoning. The framework uses a two-stage process. It first refines a base model with a curated dataset in a supervised fine-tuning (SFT) stage. Then, a reinforcement learning (RL) stage guides the

Gradium, a startup spunout of French AI lab Kyutai(backed by French telecom billionaire Xavier Niel), launched out of stealth on Tuesday with a $70 million seed round from a who’s who of investors.  The round was led by FirstMark Capital and Eurazeo, with participation from Niel, DST Global Partners, billionaire Eric Schmidt and other investors. 

The AI browser wars are heating up. OpenAI and other AI companies like Perplexity have gotten a lot of attention with their new AI-first and agentic browsers. They're being positioned as direct competition to Google, which currently holds a 70% share of the market with its Chrome browser. As the incumbent, Google has been slower

AWS is leveraging automated reasoning, which uses math-based verification, to build out new capabilities in its Amazon Bedrock AgentCore platform as the company digs deeper into the agentic AI ecosystem.  Announced during its annual re: Invent conference in Las Vegas, AWS is adding three new capabilities to AgentCore: "policy," "evaluations" and "episodic memory." The new

Every data engineering team right now is being asked the same question: "How do we build a chatbot that talks to our data?" The prototypes are deceptively simple. A developer connects GPT-5.1 to a Snowflake schema, asks "What is our revenue?", and watches as the model generates a syntactically perfect SQL query. It feels like

The Trump administration has agreed to inject up to $150 million intoxLight, a semiconductor startup developing advanced chip-making technology, marking the third time the U.S. government has taken an equity position in a private startup and further expanding a controversial strategy that has put Washington on the cap tables of American companies. The Wall Street

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is leaning into the growing trend toward custom models with a new service that it says will let enterprises bring more personalization and internal knowledge.  The move comes alongside the release of AWS's new models as part of its Nova family, which expands the capabilities of its reasoning models. Nova 2 Lite,