Mistral's revenue grows 20x in one year as Europe pushes for AI independence
French AI startup Mistral reports an annualized revenue run rate of over $400 million. Europe’s growing desire for digital sovereignty is driving the business.
Bytedance is in talks with Samsung to produce a custom AI chip, a deal that could also give the TikTok parent company access to hard-to-get memory chips, according to Reuters.
Bytedance is developing its own AI chip for inference tasks under the codename SeedChip and is negotiating with Samsung to manufacture it, Reuters reports. What makes the deal especially interesting: the talks also cover access to memory chip supplies, which are extremely scarce amid the global AI infrastructure buildout - making the arrangement particularly valuable for Bytedance.
The company plans to receive its first sample chips by the end of March and produce at least 100,000 units this year, with a possible ramp-up to 350,000. Bytedance intends to spend more than 160 billion yuan (roughly $22 billion) on AI-related procurement in 2026 - more than half of that going toward Nvidia chips, including H200 models, and development of its own chip.
Bytedance executive Zhao Qi acknowledged during an internal meeting in January that the company's AI models still trail global leaders like OpenAI, but pledged continued support for AI development. Bytedance itself denies the chip project - a spokesperson told Reuters the information was inaccurate without providing further details.
OpenAI released an update for GPT-5.2 Instant in ChatGPT and the API on February 10, 2026. The company says the update improves response style and quality, with more measured, contextually appropriate tone and clearer answers to advice and how-to questions that place the most important information up front. CEO Sam Altman addressed the scope of the changes: "Not a huge change, but hopefully you find it a little better."
The update targets the "Instant" variant, the model without reasoning steps. In the API, developers can access it via "gpt-5.2-chat-latest". In ChatGPT, users need to switch to "Instant" in the model picker. The model also kicks in automatically when GPT-5's router determines a reasoning model isn't necessary, or when users have run out of credits for heavier models, something that happens especially often on the free tier.
After launching on macOS, Anthropic's AI assistant Cowork is now available for Windows users. The Windows version includes the full feature set from the macOS release: file access, multi-step task execution, plugins, and MCP connectors for integrating external services. Users can also set up global and folder-specific instructions that Claude follows in every session.
Cowork on Windows is currently in Research Preview, an early testing phase. The feature is available to all paying Claude subscribers at claude.com/cowork.
Anyone who installs the system and gives it access to their files—especially sensitive or private data—should be aware of the cybersecurity risks. Generative AI can be exploited through adversarial prompts (prompt injections), among other attack vectors. This is exactly what happened to Cowork shortly after its launch.
Half of xAI's co-founders have now left Elon Musk's AI startup
Jimmy Ba is the latest co-founder to leave xAI, and like the five who left before him, he’s full of praise for the company and predicts massive AI breakthroughs ahead. Yet somehow, half of xAI’s twelve founding members have still walked out the door.
OpenAI has upgraded Deep Research in ChatGPT. The feature now runs on the new GPT-5.2 model, as OpenAI announced on X. A key addition is that users can connect apps to ChatGPT and—potentially very useful—search specific websites. The search progress can also be tracked in real time, interrupted with questions, or supplemented with new sources. Results can now be displayed as full-screen reports.
That said, even web searches don't protect against generative AI errors, and the longer the generated text, the higher the risk of mistakes. In everyday use, targeted search queries with capable reasoning models are often more reliable. Web search significantly reduces hallucination rates overall, but doesn't eliminate them.
Isomorphic Labs, Google DeepMind's AI medicine startup, has unveiled a new system called "Isomorphic Labs Drug Design Engine" (IsoDDE) that it says outperforms AlphaFold 3. According to the company, IsoDDE doubles AlphaFold 3's accuracy when predicting protein-ligand structures that differ significantly from the training data (see left graph below).
IsoDDE outperforms previous methods in structure prediction, binding pocket recognition, and binding strength prediction, according to Isomorphic Labs. | Image: Isomorphic Labs
Beyond structure prediction, IsoDDE can identify previously unknown docking sites on proteins in seconds based solely on their blueprint, with accuracy that Isomorphic Labs says approaches that of lab experiments. Isomorphic Labs also claims the system can estimate how strongly a drug binds to its target at a fraction of the time and cost of traditional methods. These capabilities could uncover new starting points for active compounds and speed up computational screening.
OpenAI won't be using the name "io" for its planned AI hardware devices. That's according to a court filing submitted as part of a trademark lawsuit brought by audio startup iyO, Wired reports. OpenAI had already scrubbed references to the project back in June 2025.
OpenAI VP Peter Welinder said the company reviewed its naming strategy and decided against "io." OpenAI also revealed that its first hardware device won't ship until the end of February 2027 at the earliest - later than previously indicated. No packaging or marketing materials exist yet.
