Each week, Quartz brings together product launches, updates, and funding news for AI-focused startups and companies.

Here’s what’s happening this week in the ever-evolving AI industry.

Advanced voice mode and ChatGPT writing update

OpenAI announced this week that it is starting to roll out advanced voice mode on the internet browser version of ChatGPT. Paid users of ChatGPT Plus, Team, Enterprise, and Edu will be able to start a real-time chat on the ChatGPT website.

The AI ​​startup also announced that it has updated the model of its GPT-4o model. creative writing ability to have “more natural, engaging and adapted writing”. The updated model may also work better with downloaded files, OpenAI said.

Tülu 3 model family from the Allen Institute for AI

The Allen Institute for AI announced its Tülu 3 family of open and refined models this week. The fine-tuning, or post-training, process refines models to perform specific tasks.

Through Tülu 3, developers and researchers can find open source datasets, model training recipes, code, and evaluation frameworks. Models range from 8 billion to 70 billion settingsor the variables that a model learns from training data that guide its ability to make predictions, according to Ai2.

Enveda’s $130M Series C for AI-Assisted Medicine

Enveda, a biotechnology company that uses AI to turn natural compounds into new medicines, announced a Series C funding round oversubscribed by $130 million this week. The round was led by Kinnevik and FPV and brings Enveda’s total funding to $360 million.

The funding will help the company advance its pipeline of ten drug candidates in development. 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 large-scale natural sample: (1) What are molecules?, and (2) What do they do? “, the company said.

“Some of the world’s greatest pharmaceutical advances come from just 0.1% of natural chemistry,” Viswa Colluru, chief executive of Enveda, said in a statement. “We developed our platform to rapidly expand access to natural chemistry to find therapeutics approximately four times faster – and it is already delivering results in the form of a deep and differentiated pipeline. This funding will help us advance several candidates to exciting clinical catalysts over the next year, confirming our guiding vision that the chemistry of life is an excellent source of new medicines.

Pickle Robot’s $50M Series B for Production Robots

Pickle Robot, which develops robotic automation systems for truck unloading, announced a $50 million Series B round this week. The company, which considers itself a pioneer in physical AI, also announced that six customers ordered more than 30 production robots in the third quarter for deployment in early 2025. Pickle Robot’s physical AI technology combines a vision system with basic generative AI models trained on millions of people. of real data on logistics and warehouse operations.

“Pickle Robot customers are discovering the value of physics AI applied to a common logistics process that challenges thousands of operations every day,” AJ Meyer, chief executive and founder of Pickle Robot, said in a statement. “The new financing and our strategic customer relationships enable Pickle to chart the future of supply chain robotics, rapidly expand our core product capabilities and grow our business to deliver customer value considerable, now and in the future.

$55 million equity investment from Lightning AI

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

PyTorch Lightning has received over 160 million downloads since Lightning AI launched a year ago. Lightning AI combines dozens of distinct AI development tools into a single, multi-cloud platform where developers can build, train, and deploy AI models and host AI applications securely.

“Building your own AI platform today is like building your own Slack: it’s complex, expensive, and not core to your business,” said William Falcon, Founder and CEO of Lightning AI, in a press release. “The value for businesses lies in their data, domain knowledge, and unique models, not in maintaining AI infrastructure. We have thousands of developers single-handedly training and deploying models at a scale that would have required teams of developers without Lightning.

Thoughtful AI Agents for Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management

Thoughtful AI launched its specialized AI agents for revenue cycle management in the healthcare sector this week. The AI-powered revenue cycle transformation company’s new agents include CODY for coding and rating review, and CAM for claims processing.

“Our team of AI agents is transforming RCM from a bottleneck into a powerhouse, using AI and automation to tackle tedious and time-consuming tasks so healthcare teams can optimize their revenue and focus on what matters most: patients,” Alex Zekoff, co-founder and CEO of Thoughtful AI, 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 launched its AI-powered video advertising service this week, it claims it can deliver personalized, cost-effective ads in less than 24 hours. The startup’s proprietary AI engine was trained on thousands of game ads, Reforged Labs said.

“We want to help level the playing field for game studios with limited resources,” Robert Huynh, chief executive and co-founder of Reforged Labs, said in a statement. “With our comprehensive creative solution for games marketing, studios can benefit from proven advertising models and AI-driven production and editing, all without lengthy briefs or big budgets. »

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