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While Gemini 3 is still making waves, Google’s not taking the foot off the gas in terms of releasing new models. Yesterday, the company released FunctionGemma, a specialized 270-million parameter AI model designed to solve one of the most persistent bottlenecks in modern application development: reliability at the edge. Unlike general-purpose chatbots, FunctionGemma is engineered…

2025 was supposed to be the year of the AI agent, right?  Not quite, acknowledge Google Cloud and Replit — two big players in the AI agent space and partners in the “vibe coding” movement — at a recent VB Impact Series event. Even as they build out agentic tools themselves, leaders from the two…

Building an enterprise AI company on a “foundation of shifting sand” is the central challenge for founders today, according to the leadership at Palona AI. Today, the Palo Alto-based startup—led by former Google and Meta engineering veterans—is making a decisive vertical push into the restaurant and hospitality space with today’s launch of Palona Vision and…

Anthropic said on Wednesday it would release its Agent Skills technology as an open standard, a strategic bet that sharing its approach to making AI assistants more capable will cement the company’s position in the fast-evolving enterprise software market. The San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company also unveiled organization-wide management tools for enterprise customers and a…

OpenAI has begun accepting submissions from third-party developers for their apps to be accessible directly in ChatGPT, and has launched a new App Directory (don’t call it a “store”!) that can be opened from the ChatGPT sidebar and at the URL chatgpt.com/apps. This means the 800 million+ users of OpenAI’s hit chatbot can search for,…

Enterprises can now harness the power of a large language model that’s near that of the state-of-the-art Google’s Gemini 3 Pro, but at a fraction of the cost and with increased speed, thanks to the newly released Gemini 3 Flash. The model joins the flagship Gemini 3 Pro, Gemini 3 Deep Think, and Gemini Agent,…

When Derek Waldron and his technical team at JPMorgan Chase first launched an LLM suite with personal assistants two-and-a-half years ago, they weren’t sure what to expect. That wasn’t long after the game-changing emergence of ChatGPT, but in enterprise, skepticism was still high.  Surprisingly, employees opted into the internal platform organically — and quickly. Within…

Mistral AI, the French artificial intelligence company valued at €11.7 billion, unveiled its third-generation optical character recognition model on Tuesday, positioning document digitization as the critical first step enterprises must take before realizing the full potential of generative AI. The new model, called Mistral OCR 3, claims a 74% win rate against competing products when…

Patronus AI, the artificial intelligence evaluation startup backed by $20 million from investors including Lightspeed Venture Partners and Datadog, unveiled a new training architecture Tuesday that it says represents a fundamental shift in how AI agents learn to perform complex tasks. The technology, which the company calls “Generative Simulators,” creates adaptive simulation environments that continuously…

Presented by T-Mobile for Business Small and mid-sized businesses are adopting AI at a pace that would have seemed unrealistic even a few years ago. Smart assistants that greet customers, predictive tools that flag inventory shortages before they happen, and on-site analytics that help staff make decisions faster — these used to be features of…