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AI Daily Brief — 29 May 2025

The day after NVIDIA’s print. Chip stocks rallied globally. The frontier-product side delivered: Black Forest Labs shipped FLUX.1 Kontext for in-context image editing, Perplexity opened Labs for project work, Anthropic open-sourced an interpretability tool, and Hume shipped a low-latency speech model.

Top stories

  • Black Forest Labs launches FLUX.1 Kontext. Suite (pro, max, and dev open-weight in private beta) that accepts both text and image prompts for true in-context editing. Claims up to 8x faster inference than leading models. New BFL Playground. via TechCrunch
  • Perplexity launches Perplexity Labs for Pro subscribers. Project-mode tool that spends 10+ minutes doing self-supervised research and produces reports, spreadsheets, dashboards and simple web apps via deep web browsing, code execution and chart creation. Available to $20/mo Pro users on web, iOS and Android. via TechCrunch
  • Anthropic open-sources Circuit Tracer interpretability tool. Open-source Python library plus Neuronpedia-hosted frontend that generates attribution graphs to visualize what happens inside an LLM during inference. Initially supports Gemma-2-2b and Llama-3.2-1b. Built by Anthropic Fellows with Decode Research. via InfoQ
  • Hume AI launches EVI 3 speech-to-speech foundation model. Speech-language model bundling transcription, reasoning and speech synthesis with ~300ms response latency and the ability to speak in any voice or personality from a prompt — no fine-tuning required. Includes hyperrealistic voice cloning. via Hume
  • Snorkel AI raises $100M Series D at $1.3B. Led by Addition; Prosperity7, Greylock, Lightspeed, BNY and QBE Ventures participated. Total funding $237M. Launched Snorkel Evaluate and Snorkel Expert Data-as-a-Service alongside the round. via BusinessWire
  • Global chip stocks rally on NVIDIA Q1 beat. EPS 96c vs 93c expected, $44.06B revenue. Shares jumped ~6% in extended trading; sparked a global semiconductor rally on May 29 — lifting SK Hynix and ASML. NVIDIA noted ~$8B in lost sales from H20 China export curbs. via CNBC

Who shipped

Black Forest Labs + Perplexity + Anthropic + Hume all shipped products. Snorkel raised. NVIDIA kept rallying.

Open-source pulse

Anthropic’s Circuit Tracer is the day’s biggest open-source contribution — joins the circuit-tracing biology paper from March. FLUX.1 Kontext [dev] is open-weight in private beta. DeepSeek-R1-0528 from yesterday continued to absorb reactions across HF, OpenRouter and benchmark trackers.

Money, infra & hardware

Snorkel’s $100M Series D positions the company as the leading data-labeling and AI evaluation vendor. The NVIDIA rally pushed chip-stock momentum across multiple Asian and European exchanges.

Quiet corners

No major OpenAI, Google or Meta product news. Anthropic’s Claude voice mode rollout continued from Tuesday. DeepSeek and Mistral quiet after their major Wednesday and Tuesday drops.

By the numbers

  • 8x — claimed FLUX.1 Kontext inference speedup vs leading models
  • 10+ min — Perplexity Labs self-supervised session duration
  • ~300 ms — Hume EVI 3 response latency
  • $100M / $1.3B / $237M — Snorkel Series D / valuation / cumulative
  • ~6% — NVIDIA after-hours gain feeding the Asia/Europe chip rally
  • Most-mentioned company: Perplexity

Compiled by AI Feed’s editor from verified web sources for 29 May 2025.