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OpenAI reportedly raises $11B at a $1.25T valuation
Bloomberg reported on 6 November 2026 that OpenAI had raised $11 billion so far in an unclosed round valuing it at $1.25 trillion, below the $30 billion it reportedly sought.
Meta acquires AI coding startup Conductor
In early November 2026 Meta acquired Conductor, a startup whose platform runs multiple AI coding agents in parallel workspaces. Conductor's cloud service was set to shut down on 20 November 2026.
Fal doubles its valuation to $16B on $1.3B round
Fal, a startup that hosts and runs AI video, image and audio models, raised $1.3 billion at a $16 billion valuation, double its valuation from earlier in the year.
Apple requires 18+ ratings for dating and AI companion apps
On 2 November 2026 Apple told developers that apps with dating or romantic features, including AI companion apps, must carry an 18+ rating, with new content descriptors required from 16 November.
Marvell agrees to buy Lumentum in a $115B all-stock deal
Marvell agreed on 2 November 2026 to buy optical chip and networking equipment maker Lumentum in an all-stock deal valued at $115 billion including debt, one of the largest technology acquisitions on record.
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New models
ChatGPT Cyber
OpenAI's cybersecurity-focused model, released on 5 November 2026 and limited to the top tier of its Daybreak Red programme; OpenAI says it surfaced 948 potential Linux kernel issues and 81 novel Firefox vulnerabilities.
SenseNova 6.8 Flash
SenseTime's multimodal agent model, announced in Hong Kong in November 2026, aimed at office work and design generation: long-term memory, task execution, and output ranging from PPTX decks to Blender 3D scenes.
ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base
ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base is Baidu's openly published base checkpoint from November 2026: a text-only sparse mixture-of-experts model with 280B total and 14B activated parameters, released for fine-tuning rather than as a finished assistant.
AGIBOT GO-3 Preview
GO-3 Preview is an embodied AI model that AGIBOT announced in October 2026, built on a World Reasoning Action Model; the company says it topped three embodied AI benchmarks and will fully open-source it by the end of 2026.
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe
Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe is Nvidia's free, open-weight speech transcription model, released on 28 October 2026. It handles recordings up to an hour long, transcribes up to 40 languages and can separate up to eight speakers.
Gemini 4 Carbon
Gemini 4 Carbon is a Google DeepMind frontier model announced on 28 October 2026, two weeks after Gemini 4 Argon, with Google claiming state-of-the-art cybersecurity and long-horizon capabilities.
PLaMo 3 Translate
PLaMo 3 Translate is a family of translation-specialised language models from Preferred Networks, released in four sizes from 0.8B to 31B parameters, covering 53 languages and shipping in several quantised formats.
iFlytek Spark X2.6
iFlytek's Spark X2.6 is a device-cloud model family unveiled in October 2026, pairing a 293-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts cloud model with smaller on-device models and a router that decides where each task runs.
LFM3-Omni-2B
LFM3-Omni-2B is Liquid AI's first omni-modal model in the LFM3 family: one 2.17-billion-parameter model that reads text, images, video and audio and answers in text or speech.
Jais-3-7B
Jais-3-7B is a dense 7B Arabic-and-English model from the Institute of Foundation Models, with a 512,000-token context window, a single-GPU footprint of about 18 GB, and reasoning returned in a separate field.
Jais-3-MoVA-36B-A4B
Jais-3-MoVA-36B-A4B is an Arabic-centric mixture-of-experts model from the Institute of Foundation Models: 36 billion parameters, 4 billion active per token, a 512,000-token context and a mixture-of-values attention scheme.
Jais-3-375B-A23B
Jais-3-375B-A23B is an open-weight Arabic-focused mixture-of-experts model from the Institute of Foundation Models: 375 billion parameters stored, 23 billion active per token, a 512,000-token context window and Apache 2.0 weights.
People shaping AI
View all 155Milestone papers
View all 199- Attention Is All You Need2017 · NeurIPS
- DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning2025 · arXiv
- Language Models are Few-Shot Learners (GPT-3)2020 · NeurIPS
- ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks2012 · NeurIPS
- Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition2015 · CVPR
- Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback (InstructGPT)2022 · NeurIPS
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View all 235The history of AI
View allFrom the first neural models to generative AI. Explore the ideas, people and turning points of each era.
