TabPFN-3.5 Pushes Tabular AI Toward Production Use
Prior Labs says its new tabular foundation model leads major benchmarks while handling raw enterprise data faster and with less manual tuning.
September 15, 2026
All briefings and quick hits published that day.
- ⚡ Quick hits
- Industry Mistral announced a partnership with Mozilla to bring privacy, control, and user choice to AI-assisted browsing. X / Mistral AI ↗
- AIGC Alibaba Wan opened a Wan 3.0 AI-video advertising contest offering $3,000 in prizes and production credits through September 24. X / Alibaba Wan ↗
- Industry Recraft announced that it has joined Tech Nation’s Future Fifty, a UK growth program for leading technology companies. X / Recraft ↗
- AIGC Meshy launched Ultra 4K, which it calls the first AI 3D model generation system supporting 4K geometry resolution. X / Meshy ↗
- Agents Manus launched Learn AI, working with schools and training providers to help learners move from studying AI to applying it. X / Manus ↗
- Industry Qualcomm, ZTE Nubia, and Doubao announced a collaboration to advance personal AI assistants on smartphones. 量子位 ↗
- Agents Sakana AI added PowerPoint export to its research agent, preserving editable text, shapes, tables, charts, formatting, templates, and source links. X / Sakana AI ↗
- ⚡ Quick hits
- Models Prior Labs released TabPFN-3.5, which reportedly surpassed the winning Otto Kaggle solution with default settings on tabular data. MarkTechPost ↗
- Models Tsinghua University and LimiX jointly released LimiX-2, a structured-data foundation model that topped an international evaluation leaderboard. 量子位 ↗
- Benchmark Bilibili launched an AI Arena where 100 leading models compete, with GPT-6 reportedly ranking first at launch. 量子位 ↗
- Research Google Research published a study on learned request routing for disaggregated LLM serving, reporting higher goodput than common routing baselines. arXiv ↗
- Safety Researchers proposed modular defenses against prompt injection, memory poisoning, and tool manipulation in tool-integrated language-model agents. arXiv ↗
- Agents Sakana AI added Interactive Reading, letting users question documents, jump to discussed passages, and open cited evidence directly. X / Sakana AI ↗
Factory Raises $200 Million at a $5 Billion Valuation
The coding-agent startup is expanding from task automation into a model-flexible software factory spanning enterprise development, testing, security and release.
- ⚡ Quick hits
- Industry OpenAI announced free in-person ChatGPT workshops for 1,000 older adults across ten United States cities. OpenAI ↗
- AIGC Together AI made MiniMax H3 available, a 33-billion-parameter multimodal video model generating four-to-15-second clips with native stereo audio. X / Together AI ↗
- AIGC Luma AI introduced Camera Angles, turning one photograph into multiple consistent views of the same subject. X / Luma AI ↗
- Funding AIUC raised $40 million to audit frontier models and certify AI-agent safety. SiliconANGLE ↗
- Open Source Perplexity detailed CobbleDB, which cut median batch-read latency from 31.4 milliseconds to 5.60 milliseconds. X / Perplexity ↗
- Agents Meta now lets AI agents configure WhatsApp Business accounts, reducing setup work for merchants. TechCrunch ↗
- Research Google Research introduced Retrieve-for-Train to reduce inference bottlenecks in complex AI search systems. Google Research ↗
StepFun releases five-model StepAudio 3 family
China’s StepFun releases five StepAudio 3 models spanning realtime speech, recognition, synthesis, audio generation, and music through one platform.
Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live voice models
Google’s Gemini 3.8 Live models target production voice agents with faster responses, visual understanding, 97-language switching, and lower operating costs.
- ⚡ Quick hits
- Safety Mem0 introduced Gateway, which gives agents scoped credentials for actions such as payments, refunds, and page archiving. X / Mem0 ↗
- Industry AWS published guidance on Bedrock prompt caching to reduce latency and cost for repeated model requests. AWS ↗
- Research IBM Research described ALTK-Evolve, a method for testing whether agents repeat successful behavior consistently. Hugging Face ↗
- Agents Cognition added a Mac virtual machine to Devin, enabling iOS simulation, app testing, and Slack screen recordings. X / Cognition ↗
- Funding Profound raised $180 million in Series D funding to improve brands’ visibility across AI services. TechCrunch ↗
- AIGC Krea Agent demonstrated image-to-video creation with full camera control by first building a 3D scene from an input image. X / Krea ↗
- Agents Salesforce in Claude entered beta with access to customer accounts, opportunities, pipelines, and 37 sales skills. X / Claude ↗
- Funding Keewano launched an agent-focused database after raising $12 million in funding. SiliconANGLE ↗
- Industry Agility Robotics said Digit 5 can work beside people without safety fences by stopping and squatting when needed. The Decoder ↗
- Models Salesforce debuted Koa, a specialized model designed to reason over CRM data. SiliconANGLE ↗