Character.AI announced c.ai Series, a new product combining short-form episodic videos with interactive elements designed for mobile viewing. The videos are animated and generated almost entirely with AI, positioning the company beyond its chatbot roots. The move targets the microdrama market, projected to reach $26 billion in the coming years.

Anthropic launched a 'reflect' feature for Claude that shows users an analysis of their chatbot usage over customizable time periods, including key topics discussed, task types, and usage patterns. The feature follows a broader trend of year-in-review analytics popularized by Spotify Wrapped and adopted by platforms like YouTube and Uber. The dashboard is designed to help users understand and potentially modify their AI interaction habits.

Meta has released Muse Spark 1.1, an upgraded AI coding model available through a new Meta Model API for developers. The company positions the model as a competitive offering with improvements in bug detection and fixing, support for multi-agent workflows, and multimodal capabilities across images, videos, and documents. This follows Meta's April launch of its first in-house Muse Spark model as it re-enters the AI race.

PrismML, a Khosla Ventures-backed startup, claims to have compressed Alibaba's Qwen 3.6 large language model, which contains 27 billion parameters, to run on an iPhone 17 Pro. This represents the largest AI model ever deployed on a mobile device, surpassing typical mobile models that operate with only a few billion active parameters. The achievement addresses Apple's broader effort to run powerful AI locally on iPhones to reduce cloud computing costs and improve user privacy.

Ollama, an open source tool that enables developers to run AI models locally on personal computers, has raised $65 million in funding backed by Benchmark. The platform has grown to nearly 9 million users and accumulated 176,000 GitHub stars and nearly 17,000 forks, reflecting strong adoption among developers seeking accessible AI capabilities.

Prime Intellect, founded in 2024, has raised $130 million in Series A funding to enable enterprises to build and train their own AI agent systems independently. The company's platform aims to reduce organizational reliance on frontier AI labs for agentic capabilities. The funding signals investor confidence in the market for enterprise-focused AI agent development tools.