Releases

xAI closed an upsized $20 billion Series E, above its $15 billion target; contemporaneous reporting placed the company’s valuation at more than $230 billion.

CoreWeave announced it would extend its cloud platform with NVIDIA’s Rubin architecture for the next generation of AI training and inference.

NVIDIA released Cosmos Transfer 2.5, Predict 2.5 and Reason 2, updated GR00T N1.6, and introduced Jetson T4000.

Baidu announced a proposed spin-off and separate listing of its Kunlunxin AI-chip business.

Surge launched a catalog of ready-to-license frontier datasets and RL environments covering tool use, professional work, instruction following, and advanced science.

Third-party database count of verified companies using IBM watsonx.

Lower-bound adoption proxy based on five major customers publicly named in 2026 reporting: OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, Mistral and IBM.

Estimated DeepSeek workforce using its published company-size range; exact headcount is not disclosed.

Secondary-source estimate of Anthropic's 2026 workforce.

Shield AI documented its AI analytics platform for scoring and visualizing flight maneuvers.

Cohere told investors in a February 2026 memo obtained by CNBC that it hit $240 million in annual recurring revenue in 2025, beating its $200 million target. Cohere declined to comment on the figure.

Sacra estimates Together AI's annualized revenue was about $618 million at the end of 2025. Third-party estimate, not a company disclosure.

Sacra estimates Replit's annualized revenue was about $300 million at the end of 2025. Third-party estimate, not a company disclosure.

Shield AI told Fortune in March 2026 it expects more than 80% revenue growth in 2026, which Fortune said equates to at least $540 million based on its 2025 revenue, implying about $300 million for 2025. Sacra separately estimates about $300 million for the year ending March 2025.

Baseten's annualized revenue stood at about $200 million at the start of the first quarter of 2026, before tripling during the quarter, according to The Information's May 2026 reporting.

Sacra estimates Applied Intuition hit $830 million in annual recurring revenue in 2025, up about 2x from $415 million in 2024. Third-party estimate, not a company disclosure.

Harvey hit an annual recurring revenue rate of $190 million by the end of 2025, founder and CEO Winston Weinberg shared on LinkedIn, up from $100 million in August 2025.

Scale told Forbes in May 2026 that it tallied just shy of $1 billion in revenue in 2025, up from $870 million in 2024, and expects to top $1 billion in 2026.

CFO Sarah Friar disclosed on 18 January 2026 that OpenAI's ARR grew from $2 billion in 2023 to $6 billion in 2024 and more than $20 billion in 2025.

OpenEvidence reported supporting approximately 18 million clinical consultations from verified U.S. healthcare professionals during December 2025.

Crusoe's 2025 impact report said the company grew to 1,217 employees, more than doubling headcount for a second consecutive year.

Palantir customer count reported for year-end 2025.

Amazon reported that 250 million customers used Rufus during 2025.

Palantir employee count reported for year-end 2025.

Meta employee count reported for year-end 2025.

IBM reported 264,300 employees in wholly owned subsidiaries and 8,700 in less-than-wholly-owned subsidiaries.

Alphabet employee count reported for year-end 2025.

CoreWeave employee count reported in its 2025 Form 10-K.

Baidu-reported employee count at year-end 2025.

Amazon reported approximately 1,576,000 full- and part-time employees as of December 31, 2025.

CoreWeave had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $35.7 billion as of Dec 31, 2025 (NASDAQ: CRWV), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Baidu had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $44.9 billion as of Dec 31, 2025 (NASDAQ: BIDU), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

IBM had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $276.9 billion as of Dec 31, 2025 (NYSE: IBM), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Palantir had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $423.7 billion as of Dec 31, 2025 (NASDAQ: PLTR), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Meta had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $1.664 trillion as of Dec 31, 2025 (NASDAQ: META), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Amazon had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $2.468 trillion as of Dec 31, 2025 (NASDAQ: AMZN), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Alphabet had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $3.781 trillion as of Dec 31, 2025 (NASDAQ: GOOGL), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Microsoft had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $3.594 trillion as of Dec 31, 2025 (NASDAQ: MSFT), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Moonshot completed a reported $500 million financing at a $4.3 billion valuation.

CoreWeave ended 2025 with 43 active data centers, more than 850 MW of active power, and approximately 3.1 GW of contracted power.

xAI published its frontier-AI risk-management framework covering capability evaluation, safeguards and model development practices.

NVIDIA market capitalisation at end of calendar year 2025, up 38% year-over-year. NVIDIA remained the world's most valuable public company, sustained by record data centre AI GPU demand.

xAI launched secure team and enterprise Grok plans with no training on customer data, team administration, SSO and SCIM options.

xAI launched an expanded production Collections API for retrieval-augmented generation directly within the Grok API.

xAI announced selection to deliver frontier AI capabilities for the U.S. Department of War.

Graphite entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Cursor while initially continuing to operate its code-review platform independently.

Lovable raised a $330 million Series B led by CapitalG and Menlo Ventures' Anthology fund.

Anthropic and the US Department of Energy announced a multi-year partnership supporting energy, life-sciences, and scientific-productivity work across national laboratories.

OpenAI released GPT-5.2-Codex, an agentic coding model optimized for long-horizon software engineering.

Mistral AI released Mistral OCR 3 with improved document parsing and structured extraction.

xAI launched its Voice Agent API for developers building real-time conversational voice systems.

Google launches Gemini 3 Flash as a fast, production-oriented model in the Gemini 3 family.

OpenAI opened app submissions and launched an app directory in ChatGPT.

Databricks announced it was raising more than $4 billion in Series L equity financing at a $134 billion valuation.

Meta released a unified multimodal model for separating sounds from complex mixtures using natural prompts.

Chai Discovery raised a $130 million Series B from General Catalyst and Oak HC/FT.

NVIDIA introduced Nemotron 3 Nano, Super and Ultra open models and companion reinforcement-learning and evaluation tools.

Tinker became generally available with vision input, Kimi K2 Thinking support and an OpenAI-compatible sampling interface.

Harvey delivered major performance, personalization, multimodal, and workflow integration upgrades across Assistant and Vault.

Cohere launched Rerank 4, its fourth-generation retrieval model family in Pro and Fast tiers.

xAI and El Salvador announced a nationwide AI education program using Grok in the country’s schools.

OpenAI released GPT-5.2 with improvements for professional knowledge work and long-context tasks.

fal announced the Generative Media Fund to support companies building in generative media.

fal reported that its team had grown to 70 people.

fal raised a $140 million Series D with new investors Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, and NVIDIA.

CoreWeave expanded Mission Control with Telemetry Relay entering GA, GPU Straggler Detection in preview, and the Mission Control Agent in preview.

Mistral AI launched Vibe CLI, an agentic command-line coding environment powered by Devstral.

Mistral AI released Devstral 2, its second-generation open code-agent model.

Anthropic donated MCP to the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation while retaining its open, community-driven governance model.

Clay reported crossing $100 million in annual recurring revenue, growing from $1 million in two years.

The New York Times filed suit alleging copyright infringement involving Perplexity's search and answer products.

Meta announced content partnerships to bring more real-time news and information into Meta AI responses.

Palantir, NVIDIA, and CenterPoint Energy launched Chain Reaction to coordinate AI infrastructure and critical supply chains.

Perplexity released BrowseSafe research on detecting and mitigating threats in AI browsers.

Mistral AI released the Mistral 3 generation, including open-weight Mistral Large 3 and Ministral 3 models in 3B, 8B and 14B sizes.

AWS and NVIDIA announced infrastructure for deploying integrated AI factories in customers' own data centers.

AWS announced policy controls and automated evaluations for production AI agents.

AWS expanded Amazon Connect with production agentic AI for customer-service interactions.

AWS introduced a frontier agent for investigating and resolving cloud operational incidents.

AWS launched 3nm Trainium3-powered EC2 UltraServers for model training and inference.

AWS launched a service for organizations to create customized frontier models using Nova checkpoints and training infrastructure.

AWS released a unified embedding model for text, documents, images, video and audio.

AWS released its second-generation speech-to-speech foundation model.

AWS introduced a unified multimodal reasoning and image-generation model in preview.

AWS introduced its most intelligent Nova 2 model for complex multistep tasks in preview.

AWS released a fast multimodal reasoning model with extended thinking, built-in tools and a one-million-token context window.

A secondary employee share sale reportedly valued Notion at approximately $11 billion.

Black Forest Labs raised a $300 million Series B co-led by Salesforce Ventures and Anjney Midha, taking disclosed total funding above $450 million.

Runway released Gen-4.5 with improved visual fidelity, motion quality, and prompt adherence.

Baidu integrated Wenku and Baidu Drive into a new group focused on AI application innovation.

DeepSeek offered a temporary high-compute reasoning endpoint until December 15.

DeepSeek upgraded chat and reasoner services to the production V3.2 model.

Qatar’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology launched the Arabic-first ALIF AI fluency program with Scale AI for government professionals.

Transformers v5 entered release candidate with simplified model definitions, standardized attention interfaces, and support for more than 400 architectures.

AWS expanded Transform to modernize application, database and user-interface layers of Windows workloads.

Oracle had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $575.7 billion as of Nov 30, 2025 (NYSE: ORCL), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

DeepSeek released its self-verifiable mathematical reasoning model.

Cohere and SAP expanded collaboration to offer sovereign AI solutions for European customers.

Perplexity introduced persistent memory for AI assistants to personalize future interactions.

Black Forest Labs released its second-generation FLUX visual-intelligence model family.