On 23rd May 2025, Perplexity officially launched Perplexity Labs, an early-access environment specifically developed for business users that enables them to create customised AI solutions with their own organisational data. The system is built on a proprietary 100 billion parameter language model called Perplexity Labs LLM, which offers functionality significantly
On May 16, 2025, OpenAI announced its latest development, Codex, a cloud-based software engineering assistant capable of working on multiple tasks simultaneously. Codex is powered by codex-1, a version of OpenAI's o3 model specifically optimized for software development. This development marks an important milestone in the field of
Meta officially launched the Llama Startup Program on 21st May 2025, providing 50 selected ventures with access to the complete Llama 3.1 model family, including the 405 billion parameter Llama 3.1 405B model, alongside technical support and up to $150,000 in Meta AI cloud credits. The programme
On April 28, 2025, the European Commission announced that the EU AI Office is launching a €9.08 million tender for monitoring compliance and assessing systemic risks of General-Purpose AI (GPAI) models. The call for tenders relates to the EU Artificial Intelligence Act, which entered into force on August 1,
Opera announced Opera Neon on May 28th, 2025, a new AI browser designed to perform tasks on users' behalf, including shopping, filling out forms, and coding. The Oslo-based Norwegian company describes it as the first "AI agentic browser" that transforms user intent into action, representing years of
Atomic Canyon, a startup founded by Trey Lauderdale eighteen months ago, closed a $7 million seed funding round in May 2025 led by Energy Impact Partners to provide AI-powered document search solutions for the nuclear industry. The company aims to accelerate the traditionally slow nuclear sector whilst tech companies urgently
OpenAI and former iPhone designer Jony Ive are developing a revolutionary AI device through a $6.4 billion partnership that will function as a third core device alongside smartphones and computers. Sam Altman describes the prototype as "the coolest piece of technology that the world will have ever seen,
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei stated on 22 May at the Code with Claude developer event in San Francisco that today's AI models hallucinate less than humans, though he emphasised that AI makes mistakes in more surprising ways. Amodei argued that these issues do not block the path to
In the first five months of 2025, 73 cases were documented where artificial intelligence generated false legal citations in court documents, representing three times the 37 cases from 2024. According to legal data analyst Damien Charlotin's database, the problem is worsening: whilst only 10 cases were registered in
Netflix will introduce AI-powered, interactive advertisements to its basic package from 2026, which will not simply interrupt content but adapt to it. Amy Reinhard, head of Netflix's advertising business, announced at an event for advertising agencies that the company's in-house developed advertising technology is ready, and
Anthropic introduced its new Claude 4 models on 22 May, Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, setting new standards for coding, advanced reasoning and AI agents. Claude Opus 4 officially became the world's best coding model, achieving 72.5% on the SWE-bench benchmark and 43.2% on
The European Commission has detailed a €20 billion (£17 billion) plan to create new AI gigafactories in Europe for developing next-generation artificial intelligence models. These facilities will be powered by up to 100,000 advanced AI processors and target significant innovations in healthcare, biotech, industry, robotics, and scientific discovery. The
