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Nuance Labs’ $50M — one full-duplex model for face-to-face AI
From Mexico: Nuance Labs raises $50M Series A for one full-duplex A/V foundation model — words, tone, gaze, gesture — instead of a stitched ASR/LLM/TTS/face stack. Research preview later 2026, not GA.
OpenAI Foundation’s Public Data for Health — paying for the biology data models lack
From Mexico: OpenAI Foundation’s Public Data for Health pays for biology datasets models lack — grants, not a product ship. First round: ~$40M UNC, OpenAdmet, $500K 1Day Sooner.
Meta One — paid AI usage on apps that stay free
From Mexico: Meta One is a paid lane for more Meta AI media generation, Restyle, and Business Agent. Core apps and basic Meta AI stay free. Plans from ~$2.99.
Jack & Jill’s $40M Series A — AI on both sides of hiring
From Mexico: London’s Jack & Jill raised $40M Series A (total $60M) so Jack (candidate) and Jill (employer) only warm-intro when both match — no traditional application.
Google’s Gemini 3.8 Live: voice agents that think while talking
From Mexico: Google just launched Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking — native speech-to-speech models with async tools, visual grounding, and (for Extended Thinking) background reasoning while the conversation keeps flowing. Rolling out today.
Salesforce’s Koa: CRM reasoning on NVIDIA Nemotron
From Mexico: Salesforce and NVIDIA just announced Koa — Salesforce’s first CRM reasoning model for Agentforce, post-trained on Nemotron 3 Super with synthetic CRM workflows. Pilots now; U.S. GA aimed winter 2026.
Samsung co-leads Euclyd ~$230M Series A for inference chips
From Mexico: CNBC says Dutch startup Euclyd raised ~€200M / ~$230–231M Series A co-led by Samsung for a non-GPU inference chip system. Hardware aim 2028 — not shipping now, not proven at scale.
OpenAI quietly bought Glass Imaging for $300M+, WSJ reports
From Mexico: WSJ reports OpenAI quietly bought Los Altos camera-AI startup Glass Imaging in a deal valued above ~$300M. TechCrunch same-day. Neural imaging at shutter — not post-edit fill. Neither company confirmed.
Cornelis’s $205M bet: make the AI network compute
From Mexico: Cornelis Networks just raised $205M and launched Active Compute Fabric — networking silicon that processes AI traffic in-path, not just pipes between GPUs. Open scale-up/out, Qualcomm collab.
Apple ships Siri AI with iOS 27
From Mexico: Apple just dropped the iOS 27 OS family with Siri AI in English beta — personal context, onscreen awareness, more app actions. Not every phone, and not the EU or China at launch.
