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Series E - raising $950 million from new and existing investors, led by @Tiger_Global and @GVteam, at a valuation of over $15 billion. Sierra now has more than $1 billion to invest in becoming the global standard for companies transforming their customer experiences with AI.
Image Generation Quality Mode is now available on the xAI API. This model has already powered the generation of over 300 million images on Grok. It brings higher realism, stronger text rendering, and better creative control for business professionals. https://t.co/se5D7T5RJW
Introducing GPT-Realtime-2 in the API: our most intelligent voice model yet, bringing GPT-5-class reasoning to voice agents. Voice agents are now real-time collaborators that can listen, reason, and solve complex problems as conversations unfold. Now available in the API https://t.co/2DY1LU2vO8
Introducing Studio Agent in ElevenCreative. Studio is the timeline editor where creators and marketers mix voiceovers, music, sound effects, and video into finished content. Now it has an AI co-editor built in. https://t.co/FXeO3k6abc
We’ve partnered with @AMD, @Broadcom, @Intel, @Microsoft, and @NVIDIA, to release Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC), a new open networking protocol that helps large AI training clusters run faster and more reliably, with less wasted GPU time. https://t.co/AiV952AJXs
Today we're launching Perplexity Computer for Professional Finance. Finance teams can bring licensed data from providers like Morningstar, PitchBook, Daloopa, and Carbon Arc into Computer. We’ve also added 35 dedicated finance workflows for the work analysts repeat every week. https://t.co/AfWvC2FOpA
Introducing /orchestrate, a skill that recursively spawns agents to tackle your most ambitious tasks with the Cursor SDK. We’ve used it to: - Autoresearch our internal skills, cutting token use by 20% while improving evals - Cut cold start times on our internal backend by 80% https://t.co/8Hm8S9J5pg
Personal Computer is now available to all users in a new Perplexity Mac app. Personal Computer is an advanced version of Perplexity Computer. It operates on any Mac, running tasks across your local files, native Mac apps, the web, and Perplexity’s secure servers. https://t.co/M1QMZJuOyJ
Our new voice models are now available in the Realtime API: 🎙️ GPT-Realtime-2: Build production-ready voice agents that can think harder, take action, handle interruptions, and keep conversations flowing. 🎙️ GPT-Realtime-Translate: Translate while streaming across more than 70
Hermes Agent now has @Hyperframes_ skill, natively a close collab with @NousResearch One-line install $ hermes skills install hyperframes X post -> 30s explainer A PDF -> walkthrough vid A repo -> launch reel make your Hermes Agent your video editor https://t.co/BLNTsP1Uhy
A new PR review experience is now available in Cursor 3. Take PRs from creation to merge, all in one place. You can see comments, diffs, commits, and review status to understand what changed and next steps. Navigate larger PRs more quickly with the file tree and changes picker. https://t.co/ZOFrf7mPSn
We’re donating Petri, our open-source alignment tool, to @meridianlabs_ai, so its development can continue independently. Working with Meridian Labs, we’ve also released a major update that improves the adaptability, realism, and depth of Petri’s tests. https://t.co/CyicsIScJi
MRC is already deployed across all of OpenAI’s largest supercomputers that we use to train frontier models, including our site with @Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) in Abilene, Texas, and in @Microsoft’s Fairwater supercomputers. MRC is now available through the https://t.co/KJHyfX0RTd
GPT-5.5 Instant is rolling out over the next two days as the default model to all ChatGPT users, and as ‘gpt-5.5-chat-latest’ in the API. Personalization improvements are rolling out to Plus and Pro users on the web, and soon on mobile. Memory sources are rolling out across all
Finance Search is now available in the Perplexity Agent API. In one tool call, developers can now retrieve licensed financial datasets, real-time market data, and cited web sources for agents that need current, verifiable financial answers. https://t.co/cfZM7qfboc
To support other researchers getting hands-on experience with NLAs, we’ve partnered with Neuronpedia to release NLAs on open models. Try them out here: https://t.co/8duHfPR1Jy