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Google DeepMind launches Gemini 3.8 Flash & Pro, OpenAI begins phased ChatGPT Astra enterprise rollout following cybersecurity audit, Mistral releases 123B MoE under Apache 2.0, and KV-cache limits drive MLA adoption.
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Google DeepMind releases Gemini 3.8 Flash & Pro with sub-180ms streaming and 64.2 General365 score.
OpenAI completes Astra cybersecurity audit, beginning phased ChatGPT enterprise rollout.
Mistral AI releases Mistral Large 3 under Apache 2.0 with 256k native context.
KV-cache memory wall forces datacenter adoption of Multi-Head Latent Attention.
EU AI Office sets March 1, 2027 systemic compliance deadline; NIST releases agent profile.
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Google DeepMind officially released Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Pro featuring sub-180ms multimodal streaming, 1M context, and scoring a record 64.2 on General365.
Original source (opens in a new tab)OpenAI published the Astra Preparedness Evaluation confirming containment safeguards and began phased ChatGPT Astra enterprise rollout with sub-220ms interaction.
Original source (opens in a new tab)Mistral AI released Mistral Large 3 under Apache 2.0 (123.2B parameters, 19.4B active, 256k native context, 72.1% SWE-bench Verified).
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