Scientific American

Where AI Is Now: Smaller, Better, Cheaper Models

The artificial intelligence (AI) race is heating up: the number and quality of high-performing Chinese AI models is rising to challenge the US lead, and the performance edge between top models is ...
VentureBeat

Mistral's Small 4 consolidates reasoning, vision and coding into one model — at a fraction of the inference cost

Enterprises that have been juggling separate models for reasoning, multimodal tasks, and agentic coding may be able to simplify their stack: Mistral’s new Small 4 brings all three into a single ...
VentureBeat

MIT offshoot Liquid AI releases blueprint for enterprise-grade small-model training

When Liquid AI, a startup founded by MIT computer scientists back in 2023, introduced its Liquid Foundation Models series 2 (LFM2) in July 2025, the pitch was straightforward: deliver the fastest ...
Nature

Exclusive: Start-up FutureHouse debuts powerful AI ‘reasoning model’ for science

As artificial intelligence (AI) tools shake up the scientific workflow, Sam Rodriques dreams of a more systemic transformation. His start-up company, FutureHouse in San Francisco, California, aims to ...