Google’s new open source Gemma 4 12B analyzes audio, video — and runs entirely locally on a typical 16GB enterprise laptop
While many AI open source model providers are pursuing larger and more powerful models, Google is still giving attention to the smaller, more local side of the market. Today, the tech giant released Gemma 4 12B, an 11.95-billion-parameter open-weights model with permissive Apache 2.0 license optimized to execute locally on a standard enterprise laptop using […]
Alibaba’s Qwen3.7-Plus supports text, video and imagery inputs at low cost of $0.4/$1.6 per 1M token — but it’s proprietary
Alibaba this week released Qwen3.7-Plus, the latest AI large language model (LLM) in its globally beloved and increasingly expansive Qwen family, boasting more multimodal capabilities and a 60% lower cost than the prior, text-only Qwen3.7-Max model released just weeks ago. However, like its immediate predecessor Qwen3.7-Plus is available only under a “closed” commercial license via […]
Perplexity AI unveils hybrid local-cloud inference system at Computex 2026
Perplexity AI, the fast-growing search startup now valued at $20 billion, unveiled what it calls the first hybrid local-server inference orchestrator at Computex 2026 on Monday night, demonstrating software that autonomously decides — in real time and mid-task — which AI workloads stay on a user’s device and which get routed to frontier models in […]
The Agentic Reckoning: Enterprise AI organizations have a runtime problem, not a model problem — and most are building the wrong solution
In Q1 2026, VentureBeat’s Pulse Research surfaced the “Governance Mirage”: the gap between the governance org charts enterprises had drawn and the control layers they had actually built. Forty-three percent said a central team owned AI governance; 23% couldn’t agree on who owned it at all; and 31% named vendor opacity as the single biggest […]
Enterprise AI agents keep creating data silos. Microsoft’s Build answer is Microsoft IQ and Rayfin.
Every new AI agent your team deploys starts from scratch: no memory of how the business works, where data lives, or what rules apply. And as agentic coding tools spin up applications faster than anyone can govern them, each one risks becoming another silo outside your data layer entirely. Microsoft is addressing both problems directly […]
AI agents keep giving confident wrong answers. The context layer is enterprise AI’s next production problem.
Enterprise AI agents have a new production failure mode, and it is not the model. As enterprises move from single-layer RAG to hybrid retrieval architectures, the same underlying data produces different answers depending on which agent, tool or system asks the question. Revenue means one thing in a business intelligence (BI) dashboard, something slightly different […]
Zip’s new AI agents want to stop your finance team from uploading contracts into personal ChatGPT accounts
Zip, the AI procurement platform valued at $2.2 billion, announced two products on Monday that mark a turning point in its evolution from procurement software to autonomous AI platform: a suite of five AI “Superagents” that can review contracts, code invoices, and negotiate with vendors inside Zip’s governance framework, and a procurement-native implementation of the […]
Microsoft debuts Surface RTX Spark Dev Box to run large AI models without cloud costs
Microsoft on Monday unveiled the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, a compact desktop computer designed to let software developers run large AI models on their desks instead of paying for cloud computing — a move that directly challenges the per-token pricing model that has defined the AI industry’s economics since ChatGPT launched three and a […]
Microsoft launches MXC, an OS-level sandbox for AI agents, with OpenAI and Nvidia already on board
For the past two years, the technology industry has raced to make AI agents more capable — teaching them to write code, navigate software interfaces, manage files, and orchestrate multi-step workflows with increasing autonomy. What the industry has not done, at least not with any consistency, is answer the question that keeps chief information security […]
OpenAI’s Codex update lets agents build interactive enterprise workspaces via Sites and role-specific plugins
Agentic AI is moving rapidly from the developer terminal to the corporate world. On Tuesday, OpenAI announced a major update of its agentic AI platform Codex, introducing domain-specific workflows, a rapid, semi-private web hosting feature within it for enterprises called “Sites,” and an in-place editing tool named “Annotations”. The release marks a deliberate strategy to […]