Author: Advanced AI Editor

On September 16, at the 2025 Tencent Global Digital Ecology Conference, Tencent launched the new Hunyuan 3D 3.0 generation model. This model has increased modeling accuracy by three times, with a geometric resolution of up to 1536³, supporting ultra-high-definition modeling with 3.6 billion voxels. The detail expressiveness has significantly enhanced, providing users with an unprecedented 3D content creation experience.From game production to e-commerce advertising, from AR/VR to embodied intelligence, 3D AIGC technology is accelerating its application across multiple fields. The Hunyuan 3D 3.0 model is now integrated into the Hunyuan 3D AI creation engine, available for free to users, and…

CILEX (The Chartered Institute of Legal Executives) has partnered with online learning platform 5Mins.ai to launch the CILEX AI Academy, with a view to delivering personalised AI training to its members. And before we go further, if you’re outside the UK you may well ask: what is a legal executive? They are ‘fully qualified legal professionals authorised to practise as specialist lawyers alongside solicitors’. And there are 7,000 practising legal executives in England & Wales. Given that they may often do some of the more process-intensive work inside a law firm or corporate, then AI is naturally going to be…

French startup Mistral AI has secured USD 2bn (EUR 1.7bn) in a Series C round, bringing its valuation to USD 13.8bn, the company announced on September 9, 2025.The round was led by ASML Holding NV, the Dutch semiconductor equipment maker, which invested USD 1.5bn, with participation from existing investors including DST Global, Andreessen Horowitz, Bpifrance, General Catalyst, Index Ventures, Lightspeed, and NVIDIA.“This investment fuels our scientific research to keep pushing the frontier of AI,” Mistral said in its announcement.ASML added that partnering with Mistral “will allow both companies to innovate faster together.”Founded in 2023 by former Meta and Google researchers,…

On September 8, 2025, Alibaba’s Qwen team introduced Qwen3-ASR Flash, an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system covering 11 languages — as well as multiple dialects and accents — and a range of acoustic conditions, positioned as an all-in-one transcription service.Unlike conventional systems that require separate models for different languages or conditions, Qwen3-ASR Flash consolidates capabilities into a single API-based model. It supports Mandarin, Cantonese, Sichuanese, Hokkien, Wu, and English (with British and American accents), alongside French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, Korean, and Arabic.The system is also trained to reject non-speech inputs such as background noise or silence, a…

Google is deepening its roots in the UK with the opening of our new data centre in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire. It’s part of a £5 billion investment including capital expenditure, research and development, and related engineering over the next two years – and encompasses Google DeepMind with its pioneering AI research in science and healthcare. It will help the UK develop its AI economy — advancing AI breakthroughs and supporting a projected 8,250 jobs annually in the UK. This site, opened by Chancellor Rachel Reeves, will help meet growing demand for AI services like Google Cloud, Search and Maps. Google…

Microsoft is adding automatic AI model selection to its Visual Studio Code editor that will automatically pick the best model for “optimal performance.” This new auto model feature will select between Claude Sonnet 4, GPT-5, GPT-5 mini and other models for GitHub Copilot free users, but paid users will “primarily rely on Claude Sonnet 4.”It’s a tacit admission from Microsoft that the software maker is favoring Anthropic’s AI models over OpenAI’s latest GPT-5 models for coding and development. Sources familiar with Microsoft’s developer plans tell me that the company has been instructing its own developers to use Claude Sonnet 4…

The global artificial intelligence market size was valued at $279.22 billion in 2024 and is projected to reach $1,811 trillion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 35.9% from 2025 to 2030. The past week continued to attract massive capital inflows en route to these bold predictions, with investors showing little fatigue. From healthcare innovations to consumer applications, AI startups across various verticals have secured more than $11.4 billion in fresh funding, signaling strong investor confidence in AI’s transformative potential across industries.Source: Grand View ResearchEnterprise AI and Data AnalyticsEnterprise AI investments continue to surge consistent with recent months.Databricks Leads the…

Artificial intelligence-powered customer service platform Clarity has closed a $12m (£8.8m) funding round. Led by Prosus Ventures, the round included backing from Google’s STV Al Fund, Sukna Ventures, Wamda Capital, Neo, Oraseya Capital, Phaze Ventures, Propeller, Tech Invest Com.  Angel investors from OpenAI and Google also took part in the round, funds of which Clarity will use to add new talent to its AI teams operating in London, New York and Riyadh. In addition to enabling a hiring drive, Clarity co-founder and CEO Abed Kasaji said this investment will also enable the firm to improve its products and bolster its…

General view of the Google headquarters in King’s Cross as the tech giant faces a 5 billion pound lawsuit in the UK for allegedly abusing its online search dominance.Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesGoogle owner Alphabet on Tuesday announced a £5 billion ($6.8 billion) investment in the U.K.’s artificial intelligence development, just as the country prepares for U.S. President Donald Trump’s state visit this week.The U.S. president is scheduled to arrive in Britain on Tuesday evening, before the pomp and pageantry gets underway on Wednesday. His visit is expected to coincide with a flurry of business deals.Google’s two-year investment…

Isaacus, a legal AI foundation model builder for legal tech companies, has gained $700,000 in pre-seed funding from leading Australian investors Aura Ventures and Galileo Ventures. It aims to provide models that will ‘outperform everything currently in use by legal tech practitioners today’. (Meanwhile, in other funding news, MarqVision, an AI-powered IP platform, has bagged a Series B funding round of $48m, bringing its total funding to date to $90m. Salesforce Ventures and Y Combinator took part, among others.) Right, back to Isaacus….The Australian company said that its mission is to provide ‘best-in-class, sovereign, affordable foundational legal AI models’. At…