🚀 RELEASES & LAUNCHES
UPDATE: OpenAI brings interactive visuals and tools to ChatGPT with GPT-6
OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT’s Intelligent UI with GPT-6 models.- ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users receive the rollout first; Go and free users follow Thursday.
- ChatGPT can now generate diagrams, charts, forms, tappable buttons, and inline tools such as calculators and games.
- Higher-tier users get GPT-6 Sol, while Go and free users get GPT-6 Luna.
- The update also brings faster partial web-search answers and stronger resistance to safety-bypass attempts.
Kandinsky Lab releases open-source 3B and 29B video-audio models
Kandinsky Lab released open-source models for synchronized video-and-audio generation.- For multimedia developers using Diffusers, ComfyUI, vLLM-Omni, SGLang, or FastVideo.
- Kandinsky 6.0 includes Lite with 3B parameters and Pro with 29B parameters.
- Both models generate 5-second video clips with synchronized 44 kHz audio, including lip-sync, from text or images.
- A super-resolution model can upscale outputs to Full HD at 1920×1080.
- The MIT-licensed release gives builders open code, checkpoints, and integrations for audio-video generation.
💰 BUSINESS & FUNDING
- Nous Research raises $90M at $1.5B valuation for Hermes enterprise AI
Nous Research raised $90 million to bring its Hermes AI agent to businesses.- Enterprise users can deploy customized Hermes AI agents for multi-step workflows.
- Nous Research raised a $90 million Series B at a $1.5 billion valuation, led by Robot Ventures.
- Hermes has been cloned more than 24 million times and accounts for about 2.5% of global AI token usage.
- Hermes for Businesses is planned to support private, secure deployments with model choice, SSO, auditing, and workspace controls.