Upstage unveiled Solar Pro 4, a commercial large language model with enhanced reasoning and agent capabilities, the company said on Thursday. It has been listed on the U.S. Nous Research Hermes Agent and the API routing platform OpenRouter, the first Korean model to be registered there, Upstage said. The company said cumulative token usage topped 80 billion within three days. It also posted benchmark results and said Solar Pro 4 is applied to its Upstage Studio document-processing solution.

Alphabet, Google’s parent, said on July 22 that second-quarter revenue rose 24 percent on the back of strong performance in its cloud business. It also said free cash flow turned negative as it continued to increase investment in AI data centres. Alphabet posted revenue of $119.8 billion, with cloud revenue at $24.8 billion and search revenue at $63.3 billion. Net profit was $112.1 billion, and the shares were little changed in after-hours trade.