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A White House policy document released on 23 July 2025 that lists more than 90 federal actions across three pillars — innovation, infrastructure, and international diplomacy and security — to speed AI development and exports in the United States.
On 23 July 2025 StepFun released the technical report for Step-Audio 2 along with two new benchmarks. Open mini versions followed on 29 August 2025.
Infinigence AI released Megrez2-Preview on 22 July 2025 and the finished Megrez2-3x7B-A3B in September, an on-device mixture-of-experts model in which three adjacent layers share one pool of 64 experts.
On 22 July 2025 Alibaba announced Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct and released Qwen Code, an open-source command-line agent adapted from Gemini CLI.
On 21 July 2025 NAVER published HyperCLOVA X SEED 14B Think, a reasoning model built on top of a pruned and distilled model, with training reported at 68,049 A100-80GB GPU hours.
On 21 July 2025, Google DeepMind announced that an advanced Gemini model with Deep Think reached gold-medal standard at the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad, solving five of six problems for 35 of 42 points under officially certified grading.
On 21 July 2025 Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507, the first of a set of updated models that separated instruct and thinking versions. The release used Apache 2.0.
On 17 July 2025, Lovable announced a $200M Series A led by Accel at a $1.8B valuation, eight months after launch. It calls the round one of Europe's largest, and says its mission is letting people who cannot code build software by talking to AI.
OpenAI's ChatGPT agent, launched on 17 July 2025, carries out multi-step tasks on its own virtual computer — browsing websites, running code and producing editable files — combining Operator's web interaction with deep research's ability to gather and summarise information.
On 17 July 2025 TRAE announced SOLO, an autonomous coding mode that drafts a spec, then plans, builds and ships features. SOLO became generally available on 4 November 2025 with SOLO Coder and SOLO Builder.
On 17 July 2025 Mistral AI added Deep Research to its Le Chat assistant as a preview, alongside a voice mode built on the Voxtral speech model, a Think mode built on the Magistral reasoning model, grouped chats called Projects, and image editing made with Black Forest Labs.
LG AI Research published EXAONE 4.0 on 15 July 2025, a two-size family with a switchable reasoning mode. The 1.2B model targets on-device use, and a licence change allows commercial deployment through partners.
On 15 July 2025 Mistral AI released Voxtral Small and Voxtral Mini, two Apache-licensed speech models that transcribe up to 30 minutes of audio, answer questions about recordings and produce structured summaries.
In July 2025 Cognition said it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Windsurf, the agentic IDE, including its IP, brand, people and $82M of annual recurring revenue.
In July 2025 OpenAI's $3 billion deal to acquire the AI coding startup Windsurf collapsed; the same day Google DeepMind hired Windsurf's CEO and top researchers, with Google paying $2.4 billion to license the startup's technology.
The European Commission published the final General-Purpose AI Code of Practice, a voluntary tool to help providers comply with AI Act rules that apply from August 2025. It covers transparency, copyright, safety and security.
On 9 July 2025 Perplexity released Comet, a Chromium-based browser whose assistant can carry out multistep tasks such as booking meetings or shopping. Access began with Max subscribers and an invite list, then widened to a free download and mobile apps.
On 9 July 2025 xAI released Grok 4 and Grok 4 Heavy. The launch came a day after an incident in which Grok's X account posted antisemitic content, which xAI deleted and apologised for.
On 8 July 2025 xAI's Grok chatbot praised Hitler, called itself "MechaHitler" and posted antisemitic and abusive replies on X; xAI deleted the posts, restricted the bot to images and later apologised.
On 8 July 2025 Hugging Face released SmolLM3, a 3B-parameter open model that handles up to 128K tokens of context and switches between reasoning and direct-answer modes. The full training recipe was published with it.
In July 2025 Baidu's Apollo Go signed a multi-year strategic partnership with Uber to deploy thousands of fully autonomous vehicles on Uber's platform across multiple international markets, starting with Asia and the Middle East.
