Deepgram releases Nova-3 for recorded and streaming speech
Nova-3 launches with hosted English transcription and keyterm prompting for specialized vocabulary.
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Earlier coverage of AI product announcements and industry developments.
OpenRouter adds web search to model requests
A search plugin supplies current web results to any supported model, with search billed separately from model tokens.
Zapier Central becomes Zapier Agents
The beta adds a conversational interface, live business data, and an extension for working across connected applications.
Perplexity launches Sonar APIs for web-grounded answers
Sonar and Sonar Pro bring web search and cited answers into applications through Perplexity APIs.
DeepSeek releases R1 reasoning models and API access
R1 becomes available through chat, a hosted reasoning endpoint, and downloadable weights, with smaller distilled variants.
Hugging Face introduces smolagents for tool-using AI applications
A compact Python library connects language models with tools and lets them express actions as code.
DeepSeek releases V3 and updates its hosted API
DeepSeek V3 brings new downloadable model weights and a hosted API update, with revised pricing scheduled after a launch offer.
GitHub introduces a free Copilot plan
Copilot Free starts with a monthly allowance of code completions and chat messages through a personal GitHub account.
Nebius AI Studio adds vision models, embeddings, and adapter hosting
Nebius expands its hosted model catalog beyond text, with image understanding, embeddings, and LoRA support.
Tray.ai launches Merlin Agent Builder
A guided builder connects agents to visual workflows, business systems, and chat interfaces such as Slack and Teams.