Gemini 2.0 Flash launches as an experimental model
Google opens Gemini 2.0 Flash for multimodal input and text output, with a new live API and limited output previews.
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Earlier coverage of AI product announcements and industry developments.
ElevenLabs introduces configurable voice agents
Conversational AI combines speech recognition, voice generation, and a language model with turn-taking and tool connections.
Exa introduces Websets for building lists from web research
Websets turns a plain-language search into a researched list of people, companies, or other matching results.
Anthropic releases the Model Context Protocol
MCP introduces a shared way to connect AI applications to data and tools, with initial support in Claude Desktop.
Microsoft introduces Azure AI Foundry
Azure AI Studio evolves into a platform for model access, application development, evaluation, and deployment management.
Codeium launches the Windsurf editor with Cascade
Windsurf combines an AI coding assistant with an editor that follows codebase changes and supports multi-file work.
SEA-LION v3 builds regional language support on Gemma 2
AI Singapore adapts a nine-billion-parameter model with Southeast Asian training data and regional instruction tuning.
AssemblyAI releases Universal-2 for clearer transcripts
Universal-2 focuses on names, repeated numbers, formatting, and timestamps in speech-to-text output.
Whisper adds a faster turbo transcription model
Whisper turbo reduces the decoder size for faster transcription, while language performance and translation support differ.
Runway introduces API access to Gen-3 Alpha Turbo
Runway begins a phased API rollout for video generation, initially focused on selected partners and large teams.