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425 stories · updated Oct 28

Ongoing AI stories, each with every update in order and who confirmed it.

ALTK-Evolve

On Oct 20, IBM Research said ALTK-Evolve learned guidelines lift a GPT-4.1 customer-service agent above every retail entry on tau2-bench.

LatestOfficialIBM Research says ALTK-Evolve learned guidelines lift a GPT-4.1 customer-service agent above every retail entry on tau2-benchOct 20

Company1 update · last updated Oct 20

Electric Plant

As of Oct 20, Electric Plant has raised an $11.2 million seed round led by Onto Ventures and Climactic to bring its plant sensors and its Bombadil model to market, TechCrunch reports.

LatestReported by TechCrunchElectric Plant raises $11.2 million for Bombadil, a model that reads electrical signals in plant stems, per TechCrunchOct 20

Company1 update · last updated Oct 20

Octave

On Oct 20, Octave said its multi-tenant AI foundation on Amazon Bedrock halved deployment time per use case, AWS said.

LatestOfficialOctave says its multi-tenant AI foundation on Amazon Bedrock halved deployment time per use case, AWS saysOct 20

Product8 updates · last updated Oct 20

Usage resets

On Oct 20, Codex Day 15: OpenAI's Codex lead announced another Codex usage limit reset.

LatestOfficialCodex Day 15: OpenAI's Codex lead announces another Codex usage limit resetOct 20

Company1 update · last updated Oct 20

humans&

On Oct 20, humans& released Ampersand v0.1, a collaborator model for groups built on GLM 5.3.

LatestOfficialhumans& releases Ampersand v0.1, a collaborator model for groups built on GLM 5.3Oct 20

Company1 update · last updated Oct 20

Daytona

On Oct 20, Daytona raised $60 million Series B at a $1 billion valuation for its AI agent cloud.

LatestOfficialDaytona raises $60 million Series B at a $1 billion valuation for its AI agent cloudOct 20

Company1 update · last updated Oct 20

Radical Numerics

On Oct 20, Radical Numerics released Omnii-1, a genome language model it used to design phages given to a patient.

LatestOfficialRadical Numerics releases Omnii-1, a genome language model it used to design phages given to a patientOct 20

Company1 update · last updated Oct 20

Asymptote Labs

On Oct 20, Asymptote Labs raised $5.5 million seed round for coding-agent runtime tools.

LatestOfficialAsymptote Labs raises $5.5 million seed round for coding-agent runtime toolsOct 20

Company1 update · last updated Oct 20

MemTensor

On Oct 20, MemTensor released MemT-1.0, open-weight models with memory built into the model.

LatestOfficialMemTensor releases MemT-1.0, open-weight models with memory built into the modelOct 20

Product1 update · last updated Oct 20

Motion

On Oct 20, Mosaic opened its general video agent Motion to the public without a waitlist.

LatestOfficialMosaic opens its general video agent Motion to the public without a waitlistOct 20

Product1 update · last updated Oct 20

Laminar

On Oct 20, Ramp details Laminar, the in-house agent platform behind six of its AI systems.

LatestOfficialRamp details Laminar, the in-house agent platform behind six of its AI systemsOct 20

Product1 update · last updated Oct 20

Yuanbao Search

On Oct 20, Tencent opened Yuanbao Search to the public through Tencent Cloud.

LatestOfficialTencent opens Yuanbao Search to the public through Tencent CloudOct 20

Product1 update · last updated Oct 20

TokenFleet

As of Oct 20, Shishi Technology launched TokenFleet, a distributed scheduling framework for GPU inference clusters, at the 2026 CCF national high-performance computing conference, QbitAI reports.

LatestReported by QbitAIShishi Technology launches TokenFleet, an inference scheduler it says cuts P95 time to first token by 32.4%, per QbitAIOct 20

Product1 update · last updated Oct 20

Meshy Edit

As of Oct 20, AI 3D company Meshy has released Meshy Edit, built on a new in-house model, QbitAI reports.

LatestReported by QbitAIMeshy launches Meshy Edit, which changes a selected part of a 3D model from a one-line prompt, per QbitAIOct 20

Company1 update · last updated Oct 20

Flowtica AI

As of Oct 20, Flowtica AI has closed a new funding round worth tens of millions of yuan from Vertex Ventures, Source Code Capital, 5Y Capital and Clear Water Bay fund, 36Kr reports.

LatestReported by 36KrFlowtica AI, maker of an e-ink agent device that sticks to the back of a phone, raises tens of millions of yuan, per 36KrOct 20

Company1 update · last updated Oct 20

As of Oct 20, Yitai Technology, a spatial intelligence infrastructure company built around a physical space engine, has completed seed and angel rounds totaling more than 100 million yuan, 36Kr reports.

LatestReported by 36KrSpatial intelligence startup Yitai Technology raises more than 100 million yuan from Huawei Hubble, Hillhouse and others, per 36KrOct 20

Company2 updates · last updated Oct 20

Nscale

On Oct 20, NVIDIA said Nebius and Nscale are among partnered adopting Vera CPUs to build agentic AI infrastructure.

LatestOfficialNVIDIA says Nebius and Nscale are among partners adopting Vera CPUs to build agentic AI infrastructureOct 20

Company1 update · last updated Oct 20

Eka

As of Oct 20, Eka Robotics, founded by MIT professor Pulkit Agrawal and former Google DeepMind researcher Tuomas Haarnoja, closed a $150 million Series A led by a16z and F-Prime that values it at $1.45 billion post-money, TechCrunch reports.

LatestReported by TechCrunchRobotics startup Eka raises a $150 million Series A at a $1.45 billion valuation for its force-sensing manipulation model, per TechCrunchOct 20

Company1 update · last updated Oct 20

Otter.ai

As of Oct 20, Meeting note-taking company Otter.ai said it raised $320 million from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund, which provides non-dilutive capital and earns returns based on marketing spend, TechCrunch reports.

LatestReported by TechCrunchOtter.ai raises $320 million from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund, per TechCrunchOct 20

Product1 update · last updated Oct 20

Adobe Lightroom

As of Oct 20, Adobe has added an Open Eyes Quick Action to Lightroom mobile on iOS, iPadOS and Android that uses generative AI to open a subject's closed eyes with one tap, The Verge reports.

LatestReported by The VergeAdobe Lightroom mobile adds a one-tap generative AI tool that opens closed eyes in photos, per The VergeOct 20

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