This Week's Top Five Stories in AI
AI Magazine takes a look at some of the biggest stories from the past week, featuring Meta's advanced new models and NVIDIA's UK safety investment

TL;DR
- Meta's Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full models achieve high scores on intelligence benchmarks, surpassing OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra.
- NVIDIA pledges US$250m to bolster UK AI safety and security research, enhancing transatlantic cooperation.
- Step Fun's Step 5 Preview model has seen a significant surge in usage on OpenRouter's LLM Leaderboard.
- AI startup Holyvolt raised US$45m to advance battery material discovery using its AI-powered Discovery Engine.
- Anthropic researchers predict that small AI models could achieve self-replication capabilities on IoT devices by late 2026.