A Vision Transformer, or ViT, adapts the transformer architecture to images. It divides an image into fixed-size patches, converts each patch into an embedding, adds positional information, and processes the resulting sequence with self-attention. With sufficient data and compute, ViTs can perform strongly on image classification and form the visual backbone of multimodal, detection, and segmentation systems. Unlike convolutional networks, they do not build the same local image assumptions directly into every layer, which can make pretraining especially important. Practical variants use hierarchical features, smaller patches, distillation, or hybrid convolutional components to improve data efficiency, resolution handling, and deployment speed.
OpenAI has invested in Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup founded by CEO Sam Altman, as part of a $250 million seed round valuing the company at $850 million.
Google released a major upgrade to its Gemini Deep Research agent, giving developers access to advanced autonomous research capabilities through the Interactions API. The company also introduced DeepSearchQA, a benchmark for evaluating multi-step web research agents.
Google introduced the Titans architecture and the MIRAS framework to enable AI models to handle massive contexts and update their internal memory while running, improving performance in long-sequence tasks.
OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever says the era of scaling compute and data as the main driver of AI progress is ending, arguing that meaningful advances now depend on true scientific breakthroughs and solving AI’s poor generalization.
Voice AI startup Wispr has secured another $25M in funding as its Flow dictation app surges in enterprise adoption and user retention, bringing total capital raised to $81M.
Google has released Gemini 3, its most powerful AI model yet, offering advanced multimodal reasoning, coding capabilities, and agentic planning tools across multiple platforms.
Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun is reportedly preparing to leave the company to start his own AI venture focused on world models, signaling a major shift for Meta’s research division.
Gartner identifies AI agents, emotion AI, and digital twins as key drivers of modern sales transformation. These technologies are reshaping how organizations engage and understand customers.
OpenAI has announced a strategic partnership with Broadcom to design and deploy 10 gigawatts of custom AI accelerators, expanding its hardware ecosystem beyond Nvidia and AMD.
Google Cloud and Figma have launched an expanded partnership to embed Google’s generative AI models – including Gemini 2.5 Flash and Imagen 4 – directly into Figma’s design tools, reducing latency and accelerating creative workflows.