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Amazon Bedrock has formalized its model lifecycle management with three states—Active, Legacy, and End-of-Life—guaranteeing at least 12 months of availability after launch and 6 months in Legacy status before deprecation. For models with EOL dates after February 1, 2026, a new extended access phase provides an additional 3+ months of access during Legacy state, giving customers more time to migrate applications.

Meta released Muse Spark this week, its first major new AI model in over a year, marking a strategic shift from open-source Llama models to proprietary technology. The release comes nearly 10 months after Meta spent over $14 billion to hire Scale AI co-founder Alexandr Wang and establish Meta Superintelligence Labs. The critical question remains how Meta will monetize the model and compete with established rivals OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

Apple has secured full access to Google's Gemini models within its data centers and is using knowledge distillation to generate training data for smaller, on-device AI models. The approach allows Apple to create lightweight versions that replicate Gemini's reasoning patterns while running directly on Apple devices, requiring significantly less processing power.

AMI Labs, cofounded by Turing Prize winner Yann LeCun, has raised $1.03 billion at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation. The funding will support the company's effort to develop world models, marking a major commitment to foundational AI research outside of existing tech giants.