Opera shatters vendor lock-in with "Browser Connector." Now, ChatGPT and Claude can read your active tabs and summarize web content directly within Opera One.
Multimodal AI
OpenAI is reportedly planning to acquire Pinterest for $17.5B in 2026. The goal? High-quality visual data and a proven ad engine to take on Google.
Google unveiled StreetViewAI, an AI system using Gemini Flash 2.0 to provide visually impaired users with conversational, real-time descriptions and navigational cues for Street View images.
SpaceX invests $2B in xAI to accelerate Grok AI development and Tesla integration. Grok 4 offers multimodal input/multi-agent support, but faced recent hate speech controversy.
Elon Musk will livestream the Grok 4 AI unveiling on July 9. The new model features multimodal input (text/image), 130K token context, enhanced reasoning, and Cursor editor integration for coding.
Meta is reportedly in talks to acquire PlayAI, a voice-generation AI startup, to strengthen its AI voice tech and multimodal capabilities, following its Scale AI investment and superintelligence push.
Google unveils Gemma 3n, a groundbreaking open-source, on-device multimodal AI model. It brings high-end performance to mobile devices via MatFormer architecture and memory optimizations.