Releases

Scale released a harder, contamination-resistant benchmark using real and commercial repositories to measure software agents on complex multi-file engineering tasks.

xAI released Grok 4 Fast with a 2M-token context window, unified reasoning modes and lower-cost agentic search.

Notion rebuilt its AI experience around a personal agent capable of multi-step work across pages, databases, and connected applications.

Sierra launched a no-code environment that enables customer experience teams to build and manage AI agents.

Surge was reported as a training-data and post-training provider to major technology companies and frontier AI laboratories.

Forbes estimated Surge AI's value at approximately $24 billion based on its revenue, profitability, and founder ownership; this was not a priced financing.

Surge was reported to work with approximately one million annotators across its distributed data workforce.

Surge was reported to have approximately 110 direct employees, alongside a much larger contributor network.

Forbes reported that Surge generated approximately $1.2 billion in revenue during 2024 and had been profitable from nearly the beginning.

Clay launched centralized creation, testing, and deployment of reusable AI research prompts and agents.

Clay launched a natural-language copilot for building workflows and analyzing large GTM datasets.

Perplexity expanded its enterprise platform with stronger knowledge connectors, administration and collaborative workflows.

Meta announced an EMG wristband that translates subtle muscle signals into controls for Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses.

Meta announced AI glasses with an in-lens color display for visual Meta AI answers, messages, navigation and captions.

Meta launched second-generation Ray-Ban Meta glasses with longer battery life, 3K video and expanded Meta AI features.

Gamma introduced Gamma 3.0 as a new generation of its AI-powered visual communication platform.

CoreWeave announced an incremental £1.5 billion UK data-center commitment, bringing its stated UK investment to £2.5 billion.

CoreWeave and NVIDIA agreed on a strategic collaboration to scale GPU infrastructure and accelerate AI innovation.

xAI made its stateful Responses API generally available.

Baidu introduced a sparse-attention inference update for faster long-context performance.

OpenAI and Microsoft announced a non-binding memorandum of understanding for the next phase of their partnership, alongside plans for the nonprofit to control a public benefit corporation and hold a substantial equity stake.

Announcing its $250 million round at a $3 billion valuation, Replit said annualized revenue had grown from $2.8 million to $150 million in less than a year.

The Information reported that Perplexity's annual recurring revenue was approaching $200 million as it raised $200 million at a $20 billion valuation, up from the $150 million-plus ARR its communications team confirmed the month before.

Replit released Agent 3 with browser testing, self-repair, and the ability to create agents and automations.

Perplexity raised $200 million at a $20 billion valuation.