Latest in AI

Inception released Mercury 3, a diffusion LLM it says runs at 1,068 tokens per second with a 1M-token context. On Inception’s own table it leads GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 on 8 of 12 benchmarks.

The post Inception Releases Mercury 3 Diffusion LLM at 1,068 Tokens per Second appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Nace AI released Drex Max, a multimodal decision model that reads text and screenshots and returns calibrated probabilities. Nace reports 67.59 on Decision Index 0.3.2 at $0.06 per 1M input tokens.

The post Meet Drex Max: Nace AI’s Multimodal Decision Model for Computer-Use Agents with a Score 67.59 appeared first on MarkTechPost.

Cloudflare announced Clairic on October 19, 2026, releasing a preview of what it describes as the first model in a new class of System One extraction models, hosted on Workers AI with an open-weights release planned for later. The model is built to pull typed values out of unstructured inputs, extracting, computing, estimating, and forecasting rather than generating text. Cloudflare says Clairic does this at higher accuracy, faster latency, and lower cost than traditional large language models…

fal announced FLUX 3 Max on October 19, 2026, a video generation model post-trained by fal Research in collaboration with Black Forest Labs on the FLUX 3 foundation model. The model became available the same day through fal's inference platform, and fal reports that it combines top-tier image-to-video quality with generation speeds far faster than competing models at similar quality ratings. How Fal Research and Black Forest Labs Built the Model The launch pairs two research teams with distinct…

Dream Labs, a startup founded by former NVIDIA robotics researchers, has raised $90 million in seed funding and launched a public API for Dream-1, a model designed to carry skills across different robots. The financing was led by B Capital alongside Kindred Ventures, with participation from A.Capital, Unusual Ventures and other investors. The company is tackling a costly bottleneck in robotics: a machine that learns a task does not automatically pass that knowledge to a different machine. Dream…

Zillow announced on October 19, 2026, that a Zillow experience is now available in Anthropic's Claude through a new connector, one that brings real estate listings, interactive maps, home value estimates and affordability tools into the AI assistant. Josh Weisberg, senior vice president of AI at Zillow, said the connector draws on two decades of housing data and is meant to carry users from information to action. "This connector helps Claude users take the next step through Zillow: a tour, an…

Wabi, the consumer AI startup founded by Replika creator Eugenia Kuyda, opened its personal AI assistant to public download on October 19, 2026, making the app available for iOS, Android, and Mac after an invite-only rollout that began on September 28, 2026. The company announced the release in a launch thread on its official X account, presenting Wabi as an AI assistant designed to be used together with the people in a user's life. The company described the assistant as highly proactive…

Tenstorrent has closed $1.5 billion in Series E funding at a $6.2 billion post-money valuation, the company announced on October 19, 2026. Trace Capital and Innovation X led the round, which the AI computing company said will fund volume manufacturing and global commercial expansion. Other participating investors, a mix of new and existing backers, include Agostinelli Group, ARK Invest, Brett Barna, Cadence Ventures, Eclipse, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Maverick Silicon, Morgan…

Meta's engineering team on October 19, 2026 published a detailed technical account of Prometheus, the company's gigawatt-scale AI supercluster in New Albany, Ohio, confirming its completed first phase trained the Muse foundational models and that Meta plans to scale the system to roughly 1 million GPUs. In a post on Meta's engineering blog, Kevin Lee, Yashar Bayani, Ahmed Sharif, and Yee Jiun Song wrote that the first phase trained the Muse family, including the Muse Wonder frontier models…

Town, the company behind an AI work assistant it calls a Townie, announced a $108 million Series B on October 19, 2026, co-led by Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures at a $1 billion valuation. Series B Terms and Investors Town's announcement, datelined San Francisco and published October 19, 2026, was authored by co-founders Tony Vincent and Jean-Denis Greze. Beyond co-leads Forerunner Ventures and Menlo Ventures, existing investors a16z and First Round Capital participated, along with…

NVIDIA announced on October 19, 2026, what it described as a record-breaking quantum computing simulation on JUPITER, Europe's first exascale supercomputer: a 104-qubit run executed on 8,192 NVIDIA GH200 GPUs at Jülich Supercomputing Centre that models how a realistic quantum processor performs fault-tolerant computation. What NVIDIA Says the Run Validates NVIDIA describes the 104-qubit simulation as the largest comprehensive simulation of a fault-tolerant quantum processor to date, saying no…

Inception introduced Mercury 3 on October 19, 2026, describing the model as the most capable diffusion-based large language model released to date, with launch pricing of $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.35 per million output tokens. The company said Mercury 3 outperforms GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 across a range of benchmarks while running four to eight times faster at more than 1,000 tokens per second. The announcement lists a speed of 1,068 tokens per second on NVIDIA GPUs and a…

Together AI on October 19, 2026, launched Together Post-Training, a service for building custom models through user-defined reinforcement learning and supervised fine-tuning loops, with introductory pricing of $9 per GPU-hour of B200 usage for the first six weeks. Launch Models, Pricing, and Early Access The service is designed for building custom models both from environment rewards via RL and from supervision data via SFT. Customers define the training loop, including data, environments, and…

Cognizant and Google Cloud on October 19, 2026, announced an expansion of their alliance to accelerate enterprise adoption of agentic AI, establishing a new Gemini Frontier Capability Group backed by more than 18,000 dedicated Cognizant associates. The group brings together a dedicated global workforce that pairs Google's full-stack, enterprise-ready AI platform with Cognizant's domain, industry and engineering expertise. The companies described the unit as a substantial joint investment…

Modal said in a company blog post on October 19, 2026 that it plans to roll out support for NVIDIA's Arm-based Vera CPU to power Modal Sandboxes, the company's first departure from an all-x86 fleet, after benchmark results it published showed up to double the task throughput of an equivalent x86 machine under load. NVIDIA hand-delivered Modal's first Vera CPU server to the company's San Francisco office in the week before the announcement, Modal said. Vera is NVIDIA's Arm-compatible processor…

Alon Noy, CEO and Co-Founder of Astelia, is a cybersecurity leader with more than 15 years of experience spanning offensive and defensive security. He previously served in Israel’s Unit 8200 and went on to lead the Israeli National Cybersecurity Red Team, where his work included stress-testing critical infrastructure and collaborating with security teams on identifying and addressing real-world attack paths. Noy has also managed large research and development organizations, is a graduate of…

MiniMax on October 19, 2026, officially rolled out MiniMax M3.1 Flash, confirming in its launch post that Space Bunny, an anonymous model that processed more than 200 trillion tokens while operating in stealth, was an early version of the new release. MiniMax's announcement describes M3.1 Flash as a next-generation Flash model that delivers what the company calls a "generational leap" in agentic tasks, coding, computer use and cybersecurity. The company said the release makes online inference…

Quantinuum has reported a quantum error-correction result that brings a central requirement of useful quantum computing into sharper focus: keeping quantum information intact long enough to do something valuable with it. On its Helios trapped-ion computer, the company measured logical memory fidelity of 99.9995% per error-checking cycle—equivalent to about five logical failures per million cycles. Announced on October 19, the result represents a tenfold reduction from the company's previous…

Smarter supply chains could hold the key to reducing the environmental impact of the AI boom Sustainability leaders across the globe are debating the paradox of AI. On one side, AI's environmental footprint is growing. But on the other side, AI is actively helping solve some of the most challenging real-world sustainability problems. AI’s benefits aren't just in increasing productivity within a business or automating processes; they're much bigger and more consequential. When AI is applied to…

Michael Heinrich, Co-Founder and CEO of 0G, is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and technology executive focused on building decentralized infrastructure for artificial intelligence. At 0G, he is leading the development of infrastructure designed to make AI more open, verifiable, and accessible. Heinrich also serves as Executive Chairman of ZeroStack Corp. and has been an instructor and mentor at Stanford University for more than a decade, contributing to programs spanning entrepreneurship…