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OpenAI published Agent Plugins 1.0, an open format that bundles Agent Skills and MCP servers into portable plugins any compatible client can discover and load. A steering committee of OpenAI, Amazon, Microsoft, Cursor, and Vercel backs it, Google joined as a core maintainer, and ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and VS Code support it at launch.
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Scaled Cognition raises $100M to ship APT, an agent model built for reliability
Khosla Ventures led a $100M Series A at a roughly $750M valuation for Scaled Cognition, whose Agentic Pretrained Transformer targets low hallucination, policy adherent agents already in production at Fortune 500 firms across finance, healthcare, telecom and insurance.
read →Patronus AI raises $50M and unveils Digital World Models to stress test agents
Patronus AI closed a $50M Series B led by Greenfield Partners and launched Digital World Models, large scale simulation environments that train and evaluate agents on realistic enterprise workflows before they touch production systems.
read →Sail Research raises $80M for an inference stack that makes long horizon agents cheaper
Sail Research emerged from stealth with $80M from Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia at a $450M valuation, pairing a throughput optimized inference stack with Sailboxes, stateful sandboxes that run for days and bill only for active work, claiming up to 10x lower cost per token.
read →Runpod hits a $1B valuation with a $100M round as the agent compute crunch bites
Summit Partners led a $100M round valuing GPU developer cloud Runpod at $1B, after annualized revenue doubled to about $240M. The company says it rejected buyout offers above $500M to stay independent.
read →Trase raises $107M to scale an agentic operating system for regulated industries
ARCH Venture Partners led a $107M seed for Trase, whose HIPAA and SOC 2 compliant agent platform is already automating clinical workflows at Duke University Health System. The company targets healthcare and defense.
read →OpenAI and Broadcom unveil Jalapeno, OpenAI's first custom inference chip
OpenAI and Broadcom revealed Jalapeno, a reticle-sized inference ASIC co-designed in just nine months and aimed at gigawatt-scale data centers. Early tests show substantially better performance per watt than current silicon, with first deployments targeted for late 2026 in a direct strike at Nvidia.
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Caylent builds its own agent orchestrator and cuts a 2,600-hour migration to 220
Instead of buying a migration tool, Caylent built a multi-agent orchestrator on the Claude Agent SDK that runs inside the customer's own cloud and cut one engagement from 2,600 engineering hours to about 220.
Eve makes the buy-a-vertical-vendor case for small plaintiff law firms
Plaintiff firms with no in-house ML team buy their agents off the shelf, and Eve customers report large jumps in lead conversion, case value, and drafting speed.
Suzano puts a natural-language-to-SQL agent in front of 50,000 staff
A Brazilian pulp-and-paper maker built a Gemini agent that turns plain-language questions into SQL, which Google Cloud says cut query time by about 95 percent for 50,000 employees.
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- MomMe web portal + iOS application
- Full lifestyle community with 3,000+ registered users
- AI moderation flow
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