Mistral AI has updated Le Chat with voice recognition, deep research tools, and other features to make the chatbot a more helpful assistant. The company believes that the best AI assistants should help you dive deeper into your thoughts and maintain the flow of conversation. As…
The Sequence Opinion #686: The Gemini Effect: Transforming Robotics with Multimodal Foundation Models
Gemini Robotics showed that generalist transformer models might be the future of robotics….
Could AI slow science?
Confronting the production-progress paradox…
The Sequence Weekly Alpha #686: Kimi K2 is a Trillion Parameter Open Source Model You Must Know About
The new chinese model is pushing the boundaries of open source AI….
How to use AI to start an online business
Nearly every online business now touches artificial intelligence at some point. Research from 2025 shows 78% of companies worldwide use AI for at least one business area. Smaller businesses report higher usage, with 89% saying they use AI each day. Over 280 million businesses worldwide now…
Military AI contracts awarded to Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and xAI
The Pentagon has opened the military AI floodgates and handed out contracts worth up to $800 million to four of the biggest names: Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Elon Musk’s xAI. Each company gets a shot at $200 million worth of work. Dr Doug Matty, Chief Digital…
FDA’s draft guidance on AI/ML has startups on high alert
Author, Eric Elsen, Forte Group. On January 7, 2025, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released draft guidance titled “Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Software as a Medical Device”. The document outlines expectations for pre-market applications and lifecycle management of AI-enabled medical software. While…
The Sequence Radar: AI Browsers are Coming
Perplexity and OpenAI announced in initiatives in that area….
AI is rewriting the rules of the insurance industry
Despite its traditionally risk-averse nature, the insurance industry is being fundamentally reshaped by AI. AI has already become vital for the insurance industry, touching everything from complex risk calculations to the way insurers talk to their customers. However, while nearly eight out of ten companies are…
IBM Power11 targets enterprise AI adoption with zero-downtime architecture
IBM’s Power11 enterprise servers address a persistent challenge in enterprise computing: how to deploy AI workloads without compromising the rock-solid reliability that mission-critical applications demand. Announced on July 8, 2025, the Power11 reflects IBM’s bet that enterprises will prioritise integrated solutions over the current patchwork of…