- Best-in-class reasoning and writing
- Strong ecosystem and integrations
- Advanced multimodal capabilities
Suno has introduced its new AI music model v5.5 along with features designed to showcase musical individuality
Meta plans to release versions of its new AI models as open source, according to Axios. These models are the first to be developed under the leadership of Alexandr Wang, who joined Meta in 2025 as part of a nearly $15 billion deal involving Scale AI.
Microsoft’s Bing team - yes, really - has released the embedding model Harrier as open source. Harrier supports more than 100 languages, offers a context window of 32,000 tokens, and was trained on more than two billion training examples as well as synthetic data generated by GPT-5. According to the team, Harrier ranks No. 1 on the multilingual MTEB-v2 benchmark and, according to Microsoft, outperforms proprietary models from OpenAI and Amazon.
Google has introduced Gemma 4, a new family of open AI models designed for advanced reasoning and agent-based workflows.
Alibaba’s cloud division has launched Qwen3.6-Plus, a new model offering a 1 million-token context window by default, enhanced agent capabilities for programming, and more accurate multimodal perception and reasoning.
Alibaba has unveiled Qwen3.5-Omni, an omnimodal AI model with text, image, audio, and video understanding. It is claimed to outperform Gemini 3.1 Pro on audio tasks and introduces a new capability: coding from spoken instructions and video input.
Google DeepMind has introduced Veo 3.1 Lite, its most affordable video generation model to date. The new model costs less than half the price of Veo 3.1 Fast while, according to Google, maintaining comparable generation speed. However, the company has not disclosed detailed qualitative differences between Veo 3.1, Fast, and Lite.
The research team behind Molmo has released a web agent that can operate websites using nothing but screenshots of the screen. Despite their compact size, the models in some cases outperform larger proprietary systems.
Google has introduced Lyria 3 Pro, its most advanced AI model for music generation. The system can create tracks up to three minutes long and, according to Google, understands musical structures such as intros, verses, choruses, and bridges better than Lyria 3, which the company unveiled in February.