Cloud compute startup Modal announced plans to use Nvidia's new Vera CPUs to host AI agents, after previously running such workloads only on Intel and AMD chips. Early tests showed the chip doubled task throughput, and the company will deploy a hybrid compute cluster.
Clef expands its decision model family with Clef-omni, which natively processes audio, video, images, and text in a single pipeline, while also lowering Clef-flash pricing and boosting Clef inference speed by up to 2.0x.
Manus announced the Manus Flex Inference Partner Program, with OpenRouter, Fireworks AI, and Modal as initial inference partners. Users can add their own keys in Manus Flex to call selected models through these providers, alongside large language model providers for broader model choices.
AI inference infrastructure provider Modal Labs is nearing a $750 million funding round led by Accel at a $15.75 billion post-money valuation, more than triple its $4.65 billion valuation from a funding round four months ago, according to sources. Modal Labs declined to comment.
Rokid's second-generation full-featured AI glasses with a display made their global debut at the Global Digital Trade Expo, introducing the world's first multimodal meeting-minutes feature that combines microphone audio and camera image recognition to generate complete meeting notes.