The DeepMind spinoff has spent four years developing drugs using ‘AlphaFold 3’, an AI system for predicting protein structures and molecular interactions.

The team secured $600M in fresh funding in April, fueling both in-house drug candidates and major multi-billion dollar partnerships with Novartis and Eli Lilly.

The company envisions creating a "drug design engine" that could eventually generate treatments on demand to “solve all diseases.”

Human trial is expected to begin soon, with oncology as the first clinical focus, and plans to license successful candidates after early trials.

Grok 4 is a single-agent AI with voice, vision, and a 128K context window, while Grok 4 Heavy is its advanced sibling, with multiple agents to tackle complex tasks.

Both mark a major jump in benchmarks, achieving SOTA on Humanity's Last Exam, Arc-AGI-2, and AIME, and surpassing Gemini 2.5 Pro and OpenAI’s o3.

Grok 4 is available with the SuperGrok subscription at $30/month, while Grok 4 Heavy is part of the new SuperGrok Heavy plan priced at $300/month.

The new model is also available via API with a 256K-token context window and built-in search, priced at $3/million input tokens and $15/million output tokens.

Comet comes with Perplexity’s AI search engine pre-installed and set as the default, offering users quick, AI-generated summaries of search results.

It also features ‘Comet Assistant’, a built-in AI agent that aims to automate routine tasks like summarizing emails, managing tabs, and even interacting with webpages.

According to the company, Comet stores data locally and avoids using personal information for model training.

It is initially available to Perplexity’s $200/month Max plan subscribers and a select group of invitees, with broader access expected to roll out soon.

Resume Builder surveyed 1,342 managers and found that 78% use AI to determine raises, 77% for promotions, and 64% for terminations.

ChatGPT dominated as the primary tool for 53% of AI-using managers, followed by Microsoft Copilot at 29% and Google Gemini at 16%.

One in five managers also frequently allow AI to make final decisions without human review, despite most never receiving formal AI training or guidelines.

Nearly half of the managers were asked to evaluate whether AI could replace their team members, with 43% following through on replacements.

Marey is trained exclusively on licensed footage to avoid copyright issues that plague other AI startups, heavily sourced from indie filmmakers and agencies.

The model gives directors precise control over camera moves, character motion, backgrounds, and lighting, integrating directly into VFX workflows.

Pricing starts at $14.99 monthly for 100 credits, scaling up to $149.99 for 1,000 credits — with each five-second clip costing roughly $1-2 to render.

The company has raised over $100M to date and launched Marey alongside Asteria Film Co., an AI animation studio acquired by Moonvalley.

A new ChatGPT tool called ‘Study Together’ (code named Tatertot) has started appearing on users’ platforms, hinting at a new collaborative workflow for students.

Google rolled out the ability to use first-frame image-to-video generations in Veo 3 with audio output, enhancing character consistency.

Genspark launched ‘AI Docs’, an agentic creator allowing users to generate and edit a variety of documents via natural language prompts.

Billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban said he believes the AI boom will lead to the world’s first trillionaire, and that it might just be “one dude in the basement”.

A new report suggests that Tech companies have eliminated more than 94,000 jobs this year and replaced them with AI systems.

Tencent’s Hunyuan released ‘Hunyuan 3D-PolyGen’, a new 3D AI model designed for professional art-grade outputs for game development and artist modeling.

Higgsfield AI introduced ‘Soul ID’. Allows users to create fully personalized, consistent characters, with Soul-style high-aesthetic, fashion-grade realism.

OpenAI is set to launch its own web browser in the coming weeks that will challenge Google Chrome, featuring a ChatGPT-like chat interface and agentic integrations.

A departing Meta AI scientist posted a long internal essay comparing the company's culture to "metastatic cancer,” according to The Information, describing the AI unit as plagued by fear, confusion, and a lack of direction.

Google launched new updates to ‘MedGemma’, releasing two models to its suite of open medical AI tools, including a 27B multimodal model for interpreting medical images and patient records and a MedSigLIP tool for image and text analysis.

Luma AI launched ‘Dream Lab LA’, a studio space where creatives can learn and use the startup’s AI video tools to help push into more entertainment production workflows.