Clarifai has introduced several new features and improvements, including the Public Preview of the Control Center, which offers a unified dashboard to monitor AI operations by aggregating data for informed decision-making. Key functionalities include interactive charts and powerful filtering options. Compute Orchestration now supports deploying dedicated compute clusters in the Google Cloud Platform's us-east4 region, with more regions to be added. The platform has also launched Distilled DeepSeek-R1 models, which set new standards for reasoning tasks by outperforming competitors in speed and cost-effectiveness. Additionally, Clarifai has released the Data Utils library as an open-source tool to streamline multimedia data management and processing, offering features like image annotation loaders and data ingestion pipelines. Platform improvements include navigation enhancements and updates to the Python SDK for a more streamlined model upload process. Furthermore, the default base workflow for apps created via the API has been updated to improve performance.