On the last lap of 2025, Mark Zuckerberg did the most Zuckerberg thing possible: he bought time. Meta’s reported $2B+ acquisition of Manus – a Singapore-based “general AI agent” platform – isn’t a victory lap for Llama.

Meta has struggled to compete with industry-leading AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic. Here's how its acquisition of Chinese startup Manus could change that.

Alphabet's Google is working on a new initiative to make its artificial intelligence chips better at running PyTorch, the world’s most widely used AI software framework, in a move aimed at weakening Nvidia's longstanding dominance of the AI computing market,

Ai2 unveiled Molmo 2, a new open-source AI model that can analyze video with precision — tracking objects, counting events, and pinpointing exactly where and when things happen in a clip. The advanced vision system offers an open alternative to closed video models from Google,