Each week, Quartz highlights product launches, updates, and funding news from AI-focused startups and companies. Advertisement Here’s what’s happening this week in the rapidly evolving AI sector. Nvidia (NVDA) debuted its AI audio model, Fugatto, which can generate or transform any mix of music, voices, and sounds described with prompts using a combination of text and audio files. Advertisement Nvidia explained that Fugatto stands for Foundational Generative Audio Transformer Opus 1. The model allows users to input a text prompt to generate music snippets, modify existing songs by adding or removing instruments, alter accents or emotions in voices, and create unprecedented sounds. “Fugatto is the first foundational generative AI model to display emergent properties—capabilities arising from the interaction of its various trained abilities—and combine free-form instructions, ” Nvidia stated. Anthropic revealed updates to its Claude AI chatbot this week. Claude now integrates with Google (GOOGL) Docs, allowing it to use document context to enhance response relevance and accuracy. It can summarize lengthy documents and reference historical context from Google Docs files. Advertisement This integration is available for Claude Pro, Team, and Enterprise users. Claude's new styles feature lets users customize chatbot responses based on preferred communication styles and work requirements, with formal, concise, or explanatory options. It can generate custom styles from uploaded samples.

Anthropic also added the capability to set global profile preferences, instructing the chatbot on consistent priorities, such as a preferred coding language. AI agents startup /dev/agents emerged from stealth mode and announced a $56 million seed round, co-led by Index Ventures and CapitalG. Advertisement The startup, developing an operating system for AI agents, was founded by former Stripe CTO David Singleton, and ex-VPs at Google and Meta (META): Hugo Barra, Ficus Kirkpatrick, and Nicholas Jitkoff. “Building an AI demo is fast, but creating something that consumers can trust with their credit cards is challenging, ” Singleton remarked. “Just as Android made mobile development accessible to almost any developer, we’re creating a platform to help mainstream AI agents. ”