Apptronik's Apollo 2 robot, powered by Google's Gemini Robotics 2, can now walk and grasp objects in response to natural language instructions using a unified policy rather than separate subsystems. The key advance is that locomotion and manipulation emerge from the same learned model conditioned on language, rather than relying on hand-tuned controllers. This integration of walking and task execution within a single learned policy represents a shift in how robotic control systems are structured.
Mistral released Shieldstral, a 3-billion-parameter multimodal safety classifier that formulates content moderation as binary yes-no questions to unify diverse safety datasets. The model was trained on approximately 54.1 million samples and matches or outperforms models nearly 7 times its size on text safety benchmarks while achieving state-of-the-art multimodal safety classification. The policy-adaptive design lets moderation systems consolidate heterogeneous datasets with different taxonomies under one training framework.
Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3 Video, a multimodal AI model that generates video clips up to 20 seconds long with native audio from text prompts and images. The model produces HD and Full HD resolution outputs and supports 13+ languages with lip-syncing, available now via the BFL API and select partners. FLUX 3 enables more flexible video creation across multiple scenes, camera angles, and dialogue generation, with internal testing showing it outperforms existing video generation models.
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