Hugging Face announces it has now surpassed 1.2 million uploaded AI models, with monthly downloads crossing 500 million for the first time.

We also cover:

• Meta releasing Llama 4 Maverick, a powerful new 405B open-weight model already topping several community leaderboards

• The European Union proposing mandatory transparency reports for all AI systems above a certain capability threshold

• Perplexity AI raising $500 million at a $9 billion valuation to expand its AI-powered search into enterprise knowledge management

Hugging Face announces it has now surpassed 1.2 million uploaded AI models, with monthly downloads crossing 500 million for the first time.

We also cover:

• Meta releasing Llama 4 Maverick, a powerful new 405B open-weight model already topping several community leaderboards

• The European Union proposing mandatory transparency reports for all AI systems above a certain capability threshold

• Perplexity AI raising $500 million at a $9 billion valuation to expand its AI-powered search into enterprise knowledge management

OpenAI releases o3-pro to all ChatGPT users (Free through Enterprise), bringing frontier-level reasoning in science, math, coding, and complex multi-step tasks with significantly improved efficiency over o1.

NVIDIA launches the Vera CPU—purpose-built for agentic AI with twice the efficiency and 50% faster performance than traditional CPUs for data processing, training, and inference at scale.

NVIDIA launches the Vera CPU—purpose-built for agentic AI with twice the efficiency and 50% faster performance than traditional CPUs for data processing, training, and inference at scale.

• Mistral releasing Mixtral 8x22B v0.4 with significant gains in multilingual reasoning, instruction-following across 70+ languages, and reduced hallucinations.
• Scale AI closing a $2.5 billion enterprise partnership with a major global bank to build custom, auditable agentic workflows for compliance, risk, and reporting.

NVIDIA launches the Vera CPU - purpose-built for agentic AI workloads with twice the efficiency and 50% faster performance than traditional CPUs for data processing, training, and inference at scale.

NVIDIA launches the Vera CPU - purpose-built for agentic AI with twice the efficiency and 50% faster performance than traditional CPUs for data processing, training, and inference at scale.

xAI launches Grok-3.5 for X Premium+ subscribers - a reasoning powerhouse that leads or ties frontier models on hard benchmarks with lower latency and strong tool use.

NVIDIA launches the Vera CPU - purpose-built for agentic AI with twice the efficiency and 50% faster performance than traditional CPUs for data processing, training, and inference at scale.