Every week, Quartz collects product launches, updates and funding news from AI-based startups and companies.

Here’s what’s happening in the emerging AI industry this week.

Chat GPT’s advanced voice mode and writing update

OpenAI announced this week that it has begun rolling out an advanced voice mode. On a web browser Version of ChatGPT. Paid users of ChatGPT Plus, Team, Enterprise, and Edu will be able to start real-time conversations on the ChatGPT website.

The AI ​​startup also announced that it has updated its GPT-4o model. Creative writing skills To have “more natural, interesting and appropriate writing”. OpenAI said the updated model can also work better with uploaded files.

The Allen Institute for AI’s Tülu 3 model family

The Allen Institute for AI announced this. Tülu 3 family of open, elegant models This week the fine-tuning, or post-training, process improves the models to perform specific tasks.

Through Tülu 3, developers and researchers can explore open source datasets, model training recipes, code, and evaluation frameworks. Models range from 8 billion to 70 billion. ParametersAccording to Ai2, or variables that a model learns from training data that guide its predictive ability.

Enveda’s $130 million Series C for AI-powered medicine

Enveda, a biotech company that uses AI to turn natural compounds into new drugs, announced. Oversubscribed $130 million Series C funding round. This week the round was led by Kinnevik and FPV, bringing Enveda’s total funding to $360 million.

The funding will help the company advance its pipeline of ten development drug candidates. Enveda is building an AI-powered platform called a “sequencer” that combines metabolomics data with machine learning and high-throughput biological experiments to answer two fundamental questions of any natural sample at scale: : (1) What are molecules?, and (2) What do they do?” the company said.

“Some of the world’s greatest pharmaceutical breakthroughs have come from just 0.1% of nature’s chemistry,” Viswa Colluru, Enveda’s chief executive, said in a statement. “We have developed our platform to rapidly expand access to nature’s chemistry to discover therapeutics at nearly four times the speed. This funding will allow us to bring multiple candidates to exciting clinical catalysts next year.” will help, confirming our guiding vision that the chemistry of life is an excellent source for new medicines.

Pickle Robot’s $50 million Series B for production robots

Pickle Robot, which develops robotic automation systems for unloading trucks, announced. $50 million Series B funding round This week the company, which calls itself a pioneer in physical AI, also announced that six customers have ordered more than 30 production robots in the third quarter for deployment as early as 2025. Pickle Robot’s physical AI technology combines a vision system that trains millions of individuals with creative AI foundation models. Actual logistics and warehouse operation data.

Pickle Robot customers are experiencing the value of physical AI applied to a collaborative logistics process that challenges thousands of operations every day,” Pickle Robot chief executive and founder AJ Meyer said in a statement. “The new The funding and our strategic customer relationships position Pickle to shape the future of supply chain robotics, rapidly expand our core product capabilities, and deliver tremendous customer value to our business now and into the future.”

Lightning AI’s $55 million equity investment

Lightning AI, the company behind the PyTorch Lightning deep learning framework, announced. $50 million equity investment This week in which Nvidia (NVDA) and JP Morgan (JPM).

PyTorch Lightning has received over 160 million downloads since the launch of Lightning AI a year ago. Lightning AI combines dozens of separate AI development tools on a single, multi-cloud platform where developers can build, train, and deploy AI models, and securely host AI apps.

“Building your own AI platform today is like building your own Slack — it’s complicated, expensive and not core to your business,” Lightning AI founder and chief executive William Falcon said in a statement. “The value to enterprises lies in their data, domain knowledge, and unique models — not in maintaining the AI ​​infrastructure. We have thousands of developers alone training and deploying models at a scale that developers without electricity can do. Teams are needed.

Thoughtful AI agents for healthcare revenue cycle management

Concerned AI started it. Specialized AI agents for revenue cycle management This week in healthcare. The company’s new AI-powered revenue cycle transformation agents include CODY for coding and review of notices, and CAM for claims processing.

“Our team of AI agents transform RCM from a bottleneck into a powerhouse, using AI and automation to tackle tedious, time-consuming tasks so healthcare teams can improve revenue. able and able to focus on what matters most – patients,” Alex Zikoff, Co-Founder. And Thoughtful AI’s chief executive said in a statement.

Reforged Labs’ video ad creation platform for gaming

Reforged Labs, an AI-powered video creation service for mobile game studios, has made its debut. AI powered video ad service That said, this week can deliver relevant, cost-effective advertising in less than 24 hours. Reforged Labs said the startup’s proprietary AI engine was trained with thousands of game ads.

“We want to help level the playing field for game studios with limited resources,” Robert Haven, chief executive and co-founder of Reforged Labs, said in a statement. “With our full-service creative solution tailored for game marketing, studios can take advantage of proven ad templates and AI-powered production and editing, all without long briefs or big budgets.”

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