Cursor @ $9b, OpenAI Buys Windsurf @ $3b
**OpenAI** is reportedly close to closing a deal with Windsurf, coinciding with **Cursor's** $900M funding round at a $9B valuation. **Nvidia** launched the **Llama-Nemotron series** featuring models from 8B to 253B parameters, praised for reasoning and inference efficiency. **Alibaba** released the **Qwen3 family** with MoE and dense models up to 235B parameters, ranking highly in coding and math benchmarks. **DeepSeek** introduced **Prover-V2**, an open-source AI for math reasoning with an 88.9% pass rate on MiniF2F-test. **Microsoft** released reasoning-focused **Phi-4 models**, outperforming OpenAI's **o1-mini**. **Baidu** debuted turbo versions of **ERNIE 4.5 and X1** for faster, cheaper inference. **Suno v4.5** added advanced AI music generation features, while **Runway Gen-4 References** enable placing characters into scenes with high consistency. **KerasRS**, a new recommender system library optimized for TPUs, was released by **Fran\0ois Chollet**.