Stable Diffusion Maker Raises $76M From Music, Game Studios
Universal Music, Warner Music, and EA joined as investors, turning existing content-licensing ties into equity stakes
Google's AI research organization that builds Gemini. AlphaGo and AlphaFold also came out of here. In August 2026, Google released Gemini 3.7 Flash, a coding-focused model, surpassing Anthropic's Claude on benchmarks. That same month, Gemini 3.7 Flash was updated again to a version that raised its intelligence score while cutting response time. Pixel Watch 5 will feature an offline-capable version of Gemini, with its price rising by $50. In August 2026, Demis Hassabis stepped down from Google DeepMind and Jeff Dean also left the company after 27 years, sending Alphabet's stock down 4%.
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Universal Music, Warner Music, and EA joined as investors, turning existing content-licensing ties into equity stakes
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