OpenAI is reportedly close to closing a deal with Windsurf, coinciding with Cursor's $900M funding round at a $9B valuation. Nvidia launched the Llama-Nemotron series featuring models from 8B to 253B parameters, praised for reasoning and inference efficiency. Alibaba released the Qwen3 family with MoE and dense models up to 235B parameters, ranking highly in coding and math benchmarks. DeepSeek introduced Prover-V2, an open-source AI for math reasoning with an 88.9% pass rate on MiniF2F-test.

Microsoft released reasoning-focused Phi-4 models, outperforming OpenAI's o1-mini. Baidu debuted turbo versions of ERNIE 4.5 and X1 for faster, cheaper inference. Suno v4.5 added advanced AI music generation features, while Runway Gen-4 References enable placing characters into scenes with high consistency. KerasRS, a new recommender system library optimized for TPUs, was released by Franois Chollet.