On this day: May 7

Harness-induced variance was 7.80× model-induced variance, and rankings flipped in 6 of 9 model pairs

Brought reasoning effort and parallel tool calls to voice models and raised context from 32K to 128K. Voice became an environment for running agents

Raised $3.9 billion over 6 months. A case showing that open-weight distribution works commercially

Real progress in domains that can be checked automatically (Google's own measurement)

The moment the effective postponement of the AI Act's high-risk obligations was decided

The serving engine went from research project to infrastructure public good

A third path, distinct from MQA and GQA, that compresses KV into a low-dimensional latent

The starting point of the line of work challenging CoT faithfulness