Meta Unveils Llama 4 Scout and Maverick: Open-Weight Multimodal Models Built for Performance and Scale
Both models were distilled from Llama 4 Behemoth, a larger unreleased model with 288 billion active parameters.
Amazon Unveils Nova Act SDK, an AI Agent for Automating Web-Based Tasks
Amazon’s Nova Act SDK will directly compete with OpenAI’s Operator and Anthropic’s Computer Use.
Google Slides Integrates Imagen 3 for AI-Powered Image Generation and New Productivity Features
Users can also create images in different aspect ratios (19:6, 16:9, 1:1) using the new "Create an image" feature.
Google Releases Gemini 2.5, Its Most Intelligent AI Model So Far
The Gemini 2.5 "thinking model" outperforms other leading models, including OpenAI's o3 mini, GPT-4.5, DeepSeek-R1, Grok 3, and Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Microsoft Launches AI Sales Agents for Microsoft 365 Copilot
The new AI agents will work directly within Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat.
AWS Unveils New Group Focused on Agentic AI to Drive Automation
The upcoming release of Alexa will showcase some of the new Agentic AI capabilities.
Big Tech
Meta is Planning a Phone App for Llama to Rival ChatGPT
The app could debut as early as the next fiscal quarter (April-June).
Salesforce Miss Revenue Estimates, Agentforce Adoption Lags
The company's fourth-quarter revenue came in at $9.99 billion, missing a consensus estimate of $10.04 billion.
Microsoft Makes Equity Investment in Cloud Data Firm Veeam Software
Veeam's software is designed to help customers quickly recover their data after cybersecurity incidents, ransomware attacks or accidental data loss.
IBM to Acquire DataStax to Bolster watsonx's GenAI Offerings
AstraDB will enhance the existing vector capabilities of IBM watsonx.data, IBM's hybrid, open data lakehouse for AI and analytics.
Salesforce and Google Partner to Bring Gemini to Agentforce
Salesforce’s Agentforce will integrate Google’s Gemini models, enabling agents to work with images, audio, and video, and handle more complex tasks with Gemini’s multi-modal capabilities and two-million-token context windows.
Microsoft Pulls Back from 200MW Data Center Leases: TD Cowen
TD Cowen attributes Microsoft's pullback to facility and power delays, comparing it to a similar move made by Meta in 2022 when it canceled several data center leases related to the metaverse.