Releases

Mistral AI released Leanstral 1.5 with improved formal reasoning and theorem-proving capabilities.

Notion introduced orchestration for external agents, initially Claude and Cursor, inside shared team workflows.

The Information reported, citing three people familiar with the matter, that DeepSeek's annualized revenue had recently reached between $400 million and $500 million, driven largely by API sales. It was the first revenue figure publicly attached to the company.

Together AI raised an $800 million Series C to accelerate its open and custom AI platform.

SpaceXAI launched a no-code builder for creating personalized voice agents.

Anthropic restored global access to Fable 5 and resumed restricted access to Mythos 5 after the relevant export controls were lifted.

Glean introduced proactive AI coworkers that carry shared context and memory across enterprise applications while operating under governance controls.

Third-party estimate of Runway app monthly active users in June 2026.

Third-party QuestMobile estimate of Kimi monthly active users in the first half of 2026.

Microsoft employee count reported for fiscal year-end 2026.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX), SpaceXAI's publicly traded parent, had a consolidated equity market capitalization of approximately $2.250 trillion at the Jun 30, 2026 close. SpaceXAI is not separately listed, so this is the public-market value used for the SpaceXAI company profile.

CoreWeave had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $54.3 billion as of Jun 30, 2026 (NASDAQ: CRWV), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Baidu had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $38.9 billion as of Jun 30, 2026 (NASDAQ: BIDU), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

IBM had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $264.3 billion as of Jun 30, 2026 (NYSE: IBM), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Palantir had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $279.7 billion as of Jun 30, 2026 (NASDAQ: PLTR), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Meta had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $1.430 trillion as of Jun 30, 2026 (NASDAQ: META), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Amazon had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $2.564 trillion as of Jun 30, 2026 (NASDAQ: AMZN), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Alphabet had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $4.339 trillion as of Jun 30, 2026 (NASDAQ: GOOGL), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Microsoft had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $2.771 trillion as of Jun 30, 2026 (NASDAQ: MSFT), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

ElevenLabs introduced Procedures for structured, governed agent execution.

Apollo Go began London road tests through mobility-platform partnerships.

Apollo Go launched fully driverless commercial operations in Dubai, including availability through Uber.

Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 as an upgrade to Sonnet 4.6 for agentic work, coding, and professional tasks.

Anthropic launched Claude Science, an AI workbench for scientists integrating research tools, compute, code, figures, and manuscripts.

Palantir launched an engine for deploying NVIDIA Nemotron open models in sovereign environments.

CoreWeave made W&B Weave’s agent-development capabilities generally available alongside the ARIA preview.

CoreWeave launched ARIA in preview as an AI research and iteration agent inside Weights & Biases that analyzes experiments and drives follow-on runs.

Meta released training code for Brain2Qwerty v1 and v2; v2 performs real-time non-invasive sentence decoding from brain recordings.

Hugging Face passed a $100 million annual revenue run rate in June 2026, a milestone shared on social media by CTO Julien Chaumond.

HF Jobs added exposed-port workflows for running private services such as OpenAI-compatible vLLM servers directly on Hugging Face compute.

OpenAI began a limited preview of GPT-5.6 Sol and previewed the Terra and Luna variants.

Suno launched Spark to support independent artists and music projects.

Baidu moved ERNIE web services to an upgraded site with chat, creation and web-search capabilities.

Modal documented state-of-the-art speculative decoding performance in Auto Endpoints.

Perplexity launched legal research, analysis and drafting workflows for counsel.

Mistral AI added centralized enterprise controls for connectors, access and governance.

Modal introduced dedicated single-tenant endpoints for production model serving.

Modal introduced shared managed endpoints as part of its inference product line.

Modal introduced long-running high-performance server deployments.

Modal introduced automatically optimized and managed model endpoints.

Mistral AI released Mistral OCR 4, its fourth-generation document-understanding model.

Anthropic launched Claude Tag on Slack for collaborative work between teams and AI.

Alongside its Series F, Baseten reported that revenue grew 20-fold and inference volume grew 40-fold over the preceding year.

Baseten raised a $1.5 billion Series F led by Altimeter Capital, Conviction Partners, and Spark Capital.

Reflection agreed to obtain NVIDIA GB300 compute capacity from SpaceXAI's Colossus 2 infrastructure under a contract reported to be worth up to $6.3 billion through 2029.

ElevenLabs launched Ads Engine in ElevenCreative.

CoreWeave reported record MLPerf Training v6.0 results, including training DeepSeek-V3 in approximately two minutes on a large NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 cluster.

SpaceXAI added /goal for long-running autonomous task execution in Grok Build.

CEO Robin Rombach described Black Forest Labs as a 90-person frontier AI lab across Germany and the United States.

Perplexity introduced self-improving memory for agents and persistent Computer workspaces.