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Anthropic launches Claude 4.5 with expanded context and tool use

Major upgrade to reasoning and coding capabilities. 1M context window now standard across all tiers.

Google DeepMind open-sources Gemma 3 for on-device AI

Smaller models that run on edge devices — big implications for manufacturing and mobile AI.

RAG is dead, long live RAG: why retrieval still beats fine-tuning

New benchmarks show retrieval-augmented generation outperforms fine-tuning for enterprise knowledge tasks.

NVIDIA releases Cosmos — foundation models for industrial computer vision

Pre-trained vision models for manufacturing, logistics, and autonomous systems.

India’s AI market projected to hit $17B by 2027

Healthcare and manufacturing leading adoption. Pune emerging as an AI engineering hub.

Y Combinator’s latest batch: 60% of startups are AI-native

Document processing, AI agents, and vertical SaaS dominate the W26 batch.

AWS launches Bedrock Agents GA — serverless AI agent orchestration

Build, deploy, and scale AI agents without managing infrastructure.

Meta releases Llama 4 — open-weight model matching GPT-4 on coding benchmarks

Available for commercial use. 8B and 70B parameter versions.

Stanford HAI report: AI adoption in healthcare up 340% since 2023

Document AI and clinical decision support driving the fastest growth in any sector.

BMW deploys AI vision inspection across 6 plants — defect detection at 99.7% accuracy

Computer vision replacing manual QA at scale.

OpenAI launches Codex — an AI pair programmer that writes entire features

Goes beyond autocomplete. Generates full functions, tests, and documentation.