Google introduces a faster, cheaper image generator with Nano Banana 2 Lite
Google adds two new generative AI models. Nano Banana 2 Lite generates images in four seconds at $0.034 a pop. Gemini Omni Flash brings video generation and editing via text prompts to the API for the first time. Google recommends chaining both models to go from a quick image to an animated video. T
Meta follows SpaceX's playbook and builds a cloud business to sell its spare AI compute to outside customers
Meta is building its own cloud business to sell spare AI compute to outside customers. With planned AI investments of up to $145 billion this year alone, the same question that came up with xAI now applies to Meta: why isn't the company putting all that capacity to work on its own models? The articl
Trump drops restrictions on Anthropic’s Mythos and Fable models
Anthropic has launched Claude Sonnet 5 and restored access to its Fable and Mythos frontier models following a federal export control review. The decision marks the conclusion of an eighteen-day operational pause triggered by a US government export control directive on June 12, which forced the temp
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Anthropic’s Claude Science bets on workflow, not a new model, to win over scientists
Anthropic's Claude Science is a workbench that gives scientists one environment to do computational research, saving them from the need to bounce between databases, pipelines, and tools.