Today in AI ·

Mistral #Mistral #MultimodalAI #OpenWeights

Mistral launches Large 4 public preview ahead of open weights

Mistral released a public API preview of Large 4, a natively multimodal model with roughly one trillion parameters and 49 billion active parameters. It plans to release the weights by month-end while continuing safety testing, giving developers an early route to evaluate the model.

Read at Mistral
Google #Google #OpenSource #OnDeviceAI

Google releases EmbeddingGemma 2 for on-device multimodal search

Google launched the 740-million-parameter EmbeddingGemma 2 under Apache 2.0, mapping text, code, images, audio and video into a shared embedding space. Its modular design supports local search and retrieval on consumer hardware, reducing the need to send personal data to cloud services.

Read at Google
GOV.UK #HealthAI #AIRegulation #UK

UK backs all 44 healthcare AI regulation recommendations

The UK government accepted all 44 recommendations from its National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare. The MHRA also opened applications for the next AI Airlock phase, supporting a more proportionate, lifecycle-based approach to evaluating AI-enabled medical devices.

Read at GOV.UK
Google #GenerativeAI #MusicTools #Google

Google Flow Music exports custom tools as studio plugins

Google now lets producers export custom Flow Music Spaces as VST3/AU plugins for use in digital audio workstations. Instruments and effects built through natural-language prompts can therefore become part of existing professional music workflows.

Read at Google
SAP #EnterpriseAI #Acquisition #SAP

SAP agrees to acquire AI work-intelligence provider TechWolf

SAP agreed to buy TechWolf and integrate its work-and-skills context graph, AI models and research team into its enterprise offerings. The deal is expected to close in Q4 2026 subject to approvals, with the technology intended to support workforce planning and talent decisions.

Read at SAP
Flai #AIAgents #Funding #Automotive

Flai raises $27 million to automate dealership operations

Flai announced a $27 million Series A led by Base10 Partners, with participants including Toyota Ventures and First Round Capital. The company says its AI now schedules more than 50,000 monthly appointments across dealership sales and service, illustrating expansion beyond call handling into operational workflows.

Read at Flai
Business Wire #EdgeAI #Infrastructure #Funding

Torch Systems raises $11.5 million for outdoor infrastructure AI

Torch Systems announced $11.5 million in funding, comprising $9.5 million in equity and $2 million in venture debt. It will scale sensing devices and its intelligence platform as it expands from wildfire detection into monitoring equipment, vegetation and environmental risks around outdoor infrastructure.

Read at Business Wire

Free · 19 episodes · no sign-up

Learn AI system design, one diagram at a time

60-second Shorts and long-form deep dives on how real AI systems are built, how they break, and how to fix them: caching, RAG, agents, security and decision models.

A holographic architecture diagram glowing in a dark control room

Newest episodes

All 19 episodes

The learning path

Five stages, from the edge of the network to the security of your agents.

Open the learning path

0 of 19 episodes done

Mark episodes as done from their page. Progress stays in this browser.

Start with stage 1
  1. 1 Foundations Edge & Caching Why far servers feel fast, where edge rendering backfires, and how one cache expiry can take down an AI app. 2 episodes · 2 coming 0 of 2 done
  2. 2 Core Decision Models When a typed decision beats generated text, and how to route between a decision model and an LLM. 3 episodes · 1 coming 0 of 3 done
  3. 3 Advanced Agents in Production Context, memory, cost guardrails and the workspace an autonomous coding agent needs. 8 episodes · 5 coming 0 of 8 done
  4. 4 Hands-on Hands-On: Coding Agents from Your Phone Step-by-step tutorials: build and ship real apps from the Claude app, with the prompts and the code for every step. 3 episodes · 2 coming 0 of 3 done
  5. 5 Advanced AI Security Stolen tokens, poisoned tools and the other ways an AI system gets turned against its users. 3 episodes · 2 coming 0 of 3 done

Four ways to watch

Get the next episode first

Shorts and deep dives on AI system design land on @AI.JoinDev first. Subscribe, or follow the RSS feed.

Teaching someone younger?

Code Quest Kids: Coding for kids aged 6 to 12, with Bit the robot. Same team, same no-ads rules.

Visit kids.join.dev