Releases

Google introduces Gemini 2.5 Flash with hybrid reasoning and controls over how much the model thinks.

IBM added the Granite 3.3 8B instruction model to watsonx.ai and open distribution channels.

IBM added the Granite 3.3 2B instruction model to watsonx.ai and open distribution channels.

Modal raised asynchronous function-call input capacity to one million items.

OpenAI released Codex CLI, an open-source coding agent that runs in the terminal.

OpenAI released o4-mini, a smaller reasoning model optimized for fast, cost-efficient reasoning.

OpenAI released o3, a reasoning model with strong performance across coding, mathematics, science, and visual tasks.

Notion launched an AI-powered email client with automatic labeling, contextual drafting, custom views, and scheduling.

Adobe Ventures made a strategic investment in Synthesia as enterprise adoption of AI video accelerated.

Synthesia announced that annual recurring revenue had surpassed $100 million.

Cohere introduced Embed 4 for multimodal retrieval across text, images and complex enterprise documents in more than 100 languages.

xAI launched Grok Studio, a browser workspace for drafting documents, writing code and building projects with Grok.

Anthropic launched Research for multi-step cited investigation across the web and Google Workspace.

Hugging Face acquired Pollen Robotics, maker of Reachy robots, to accelerate its open-source robotics strategy and connect physical hardware with the LeRobot ecosystem.

OpenAI released GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano in the API with improved coding and instruction following.

SSI completed a $2 billion financing led by Greenoaks, with participation reported from Alphabet, NVIDIA and other investors.

Crusoe was identified as the builder of the first phase of the OpenAI-led Stargate AI data-center project in Abilene, Texas.

Databricks and Google Cloud expanded joint go-to-market and product integrations for Gemini models and enterprise AI.

Google introduces the open Agent2Agent protocol with more than 50 partners to enable interoperable agent collaboration.

Google Cloud releases the open-source Agent Development Kit for building and orchestrating multi-agent systems.

Google Cloud announces Ironwood, its seventh-generation TPU designed for large-scale inference and thinking models.

Anthropic launched Claude Max with substantially higher usage limits for frequent individual users.

Decagon introduced AOPs, natural-language instructions that combine flexible AI behavior with structured execution logic.

IBM introduced z17 with Telum II and support for accelerated enterprise inference.

AWS released a unified speech-to-speech foundation model for low-latency conversational applications.