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Meta Superintelligence Labs acquires Manus AI for over $2B, at $100M ARR, 9months after launch
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Manus achieved a rapid growth trajectory in 2025, raising $500M from Benchmark and reaching $100M ARR before being acquired by Meta for an estimated $4B. The vLLM team launched a dedicated community site with new resources, while performance issues with AMD MI300X FP8 were noted in vLLM and sglang benchmarks. Weaviate released operational features including Object TTL, Java v6 client GA, and multimodal document embeddings. API fragmentation concerns were raised by Teknium advocating for unified SDK wrappers. In open-weight models, GLM-4.7 gained recognition as a reliable coding model with faster throughput on Baseten, and MiniMax-M2.1 rose as a leading open agentic coder model, topping WebDev leaderboards.
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Ilya Sutskever confirmed his role as CEO of Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI) with Daniel Levy as President, dismissing acquisition rumors and emphasizing their strong team and compute resources. Perplexity AI expanded its data integrations by adding Morningstar's financial research and hinted at new product features for Pro users. Meta AI FAIR clarified its research structure, distinguishing its small lab from larger model training groups, and welcomed Nat Friedman to enhance AI product development. Midjourney and Sakana AI announced hiring for research and applied engineering roles. Cohere expanded its presence in Montréal, receiving praise from Canadian officials. On the model front, Google DeepMind's Gemini Pro released the Veo 3 video generation model globally. DeepSeek launched the faster DeepSeek R1T2 model using an Assembly of Experts approach, available under an MIT license. Kling AI showcased cinematic video generation capabilities. OpenAI introduced a high-cost Deep Research API with pricing up to $30 per call. Together AI announced the release of the DeepSWE agent.
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Meta makes a major AI move by hiring Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang as Chief AI Officer and acquiring a 49% non-voting stake in Scale AI for $14.3 billion, doubling its valuation to about $28 billion. Chai Discovery announces Chai-2, a breakthrough model for zero-shot antibody discovery and optimization. The US government faces budget cuts threatening to eliminate a quarter million science research jobs by 2026. Data access restrictions intensify as companies like Atlassian, Notion, and Slack block web crawlers including Common Crawl, raising concerns about future public internet archives. Hugging Face shuts down HuggingChat after serving over a million users, marking a significant experiment in open-source LLMs. Sakana AI releases AB-MCTS, an inference-time scaling algorithm enabling multiple models like Gemini 2.5 Pro and DeepSeek-R1-0528 to cooperate and outperform individual models.