LWiAI Podcast #234 - Opus 4.6, GPT-5.3-Codex, Seedance 2.0, GLM-5

Last Week in AI · 4 months ago

Last Week in AI's podcast episode 234 covered major AI model releases including Anthropic's Opus 4.6 with 1M-token context, OpenAI's GPT-5.3 Codex, and Google's Gemini 3 Deep Think, alongside generative media advances from ByteDance, Alibaba, and xAI. Notable funding rounds included ElevenLabs raising $500M at $11B valuation, Runway raising $315M at $5.3B valuation, and humanoid robotics firm Apptronik raising $935M at $5.3B valuation. The episode discussed open-source releases, policy developments, and industry updates including Waymo's preparation for high-volume production of sixth-generation autonomous vehicle hardware.