Releases

Legora raised $550 million in a Series D led by Accel to accelerate U.S. expansion.

Thinking Machines was reported to have grown from about 30 employees to roughly 120 over its first year.

Thinking Machines and NVIDIA announced a multi-year partnership to deploy at least one gigawatt of Vera Rubin systems, alongside an NVIDIA investment.

CoreWeave introduced more flexible cloud-capacity plans designed to match customer workload duration and deployment needs.

Hugging Face launched mutable, Xet-backed S3-like Storage Buckets for checkpoints, logs, traces, and intermediate AI data.

SpaceXAI released Grok 4.20 and a multi-agent variant through its platform.

Meta and World Resources Institute released a DINOv3-based global forest-canopy model with improved accuracy and detail.

Harvey evolved Workflow Builder into Agent Builder for reusable custom legal agents.

Harvey reported hundreds of thousands of agentic Deep Analysis reports and expanded its use in custom agent workflows.

Databricks redesigned AI Search with decoupled storage and compute to support billions of vectors at lower cost.

Scale Labs introduced repository-grounded rubrics for evaluating and reranking candidate software patches without executing tests.

Scale Labs introduced VeRO, a reproducible harness using versioned agent snapshots, controlled budgets, structured traces, and reference procedures.

Scale expanded SEAL into Scale Labs, a broader research organization focused on evaluation, agents, multimodal systems, post-training, deployments, and oversight.

At AI Native Conf, Together announced FlashAttention-4, a reinforcement-learning API, ThunderAgent, ATLAS-2, and related research-to-production releases.

OpenAI released GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.4 Pro for professional work, coding, computer use, and long-context tasks.

Harvey announced an embedded legal-intelligence agent for Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Modal launched Directory Snapshots for capturing and restoring sandbox filesystem state.

Modal added integrated changelog visibility and workflow improvements to its CLI.

CoreWeave announced an agreement to provide AI inference infrastructure for Perplexity.

Cohere joined Aston Martin Aramco as official generative-AI partner to support engineering and business innovation.

Scale launched SWE Atlas, initially releasing Codebase QnA to evaluate how coding agents investigate and reason about real software systems.

Microsoft Research releases Phi-4 Reasoning Vision, a 15-billion-parameter open-weight multimodal reasoning model.

Perplexity expanded Computer as the unifying interface for search, research, creation and actions.

AWS made centralized policy controls for agent-tool interactions generally available.

Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite for low-cost, high-throughput multimodal workloads.

Moonshot published its distributed model-checkpointing engine.

Moonshot published optimized kernels for Kimi Delta Attention.

Moonshot released its expert-parallel communication library for large MoE training and inference.

Moonshot published Mixture-of-Block Attention code and research for efficient long-context modeling.

Baidu launched a general-purpose agent for multi-step productivity workflows.

Oracle had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $417.9 billion as of Feb 28, 2026 (NYSE: ORCL), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Scale launched high-fidelity simulated environments for training and testing agents on tool use, computer use, coding, and professional workflows.

Amazon and OpenAI announced joint development of a stateful environment for long-running agents on Amazon Bedrock.

Amazon and OpenAI announced that next-generation Trainium4 is expected to begin delivery in 2027.

Amazon announced an initial $15 billion investment in OpenAI followed by up to $35 billion more under preset conditions.

OpenAI and Amazon announced a strategic partnership spanning investment, AWS compute, and distribution of OpenAI models and products.

OpenAI announced $110 billion of new investment from Amazon, NVIDIA, and SoftBank at a $730 billion pre-money valuation.

Midjourney expanded web personalization profiles and moodboard workflows.

Cursor released Composer 1.5 with stronger agentic coding performance and positioned proprietary models as central to its product strategy.

CoreWeave reported fiscal 2025 revenue of $5.131 billion, up 168% year over year, with $66.8 billion of revenue backlog.

Samsung partnered with Perplexity to integrate its APIs and AI search capabilities into Samsung devices.

Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash Image for fast, controllable image generation and editing.

Perplexity launched Computer, an agentic workspace that coordinates models, web search, tools, connected apps and code to complete knowledge-work tasks.

NVIDIA reported Q4 fiscal 2026 record revenue of $68.1 billion, up 73% year-over-year and 20% sequentially. Data Center revenue was $62.3 billion. Full-year FY2026 revenue reached $215.9 billion (+65% YoY), with full-year net income of $120.1 billion (GAAP).

SambaNova announced its fifth-generation SN50 RDU and rack-scale SambaRack SN50 system for agentic inference, with shipments planned for the second half of 2026.

Cursor Cloud Agents gained computer-use capabilities for interacting with browsers and graphical applications.

Anthropic published version 3.0 of its Responsible Scaling Policy, updating its voluntary framework for managing catastrophic risks from advanced AI.

Google launches Gemini 3.1 Pro with advances in reasoning, coding and long-running agentic tasks.

Autodesk invested $200 million in World Labs and entered a strategic partnership to bring spatial-intelligence world models into 3D design workflows.

World Labs raised $1 billion from investors including AMD, Autodesk, Emerson, Fidelity, NVIDIA and Sea to advance spatial-intelligence models.

Mistral AI agreed to acquire French serverless cloud platform Koyeb to strengthen its AI infrastructure and deployment stack; financial terms were not disclosed.

Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.6 with upgrades across coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work, and design.

Cursor introduced long-running agents designed to execute extended software-engineering tasks in the cloud.

Anthropic disclosed annualized run-rate revenue of $14 billion and said it had grown more than tenfold annually for each of the prior three years.

Anthropic raised a $30 billion Series G led by GIC and Coatue, with a $380 billion post-money valuation.

OpenAI released a research preview of GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a smaller model optimized for near-real-time coding.

ElevenLabs launched a dedicated public-sector offering for citizen services and government workflows.

Synthesia disclosed that annual recurring revenue had scaled from $40 million to approximately $140 million over three years.

Runway made Gen-4.5 available to developers for text-to-video and image-to-video generation.

Runway raised a $315 million Series E at a $5.3 billion valuation.

Databricks disclosed a $1.4 billion annual revenue run-rate for its AI products.

Databricks completed about $5 billion of equity financing at a $134 billion valuation plus roughly $2 billion of additional debt capacity.

Sierra reported more than $150 million in annual recurring revenue as it entered its third year.

Suno added warp markers, Remove FX, alternates, and time-signature support to Studio.

Baidu released a 2.4T-parameter unified model trained jointly across text, image, video and audio.

CoreWeave introduced a new brand positioning centered on being the essential cloud platform for production AI.

Baseten raised $300 million in a Series E led by IVP and CapitalG, with participation including NVIDIA.

CoreWeave introduced ARENA, a production-scale lab for testing AI workload performance, economics, and operational readiness before deployment.

Perplexity launched Model Council, allowing users to query multiple frontier models and synthesize their agreements and disagreements.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.6 with stronger coding, longer-running agentic work, improved knowledge work, and a one-million-token context window in beta.

OpenAI released GPT-5.3-Codex, an interactive agentic coding model for complex software and professional work.

ElevenLabs released a conversationally optimized v3 model with improved turn-taking, latency, and expressiveness.

ElevenLabs raised $500 million at an $11 billion valuation.

AIP Document Intelligence became generally available for extracting, structuring, and reasoning over documents.

Mistral AI released two second-generation Voxtral transcription models for production speech-to-text workloads.

Eleven v3 moved from alpha to general availability.

SpaceX acquired X.AI Holdings in an all-stock merger. Reporting tied to the transaction valued xAI at about $250 billion and SpaceX at $1 trillion, implying a combined $1.25 trillion value.

Anthropic named the Allen Institute and Howard Hughes Medical Institute as founding life-sciences partners to develop specialized AI agents and accelerate scientific discovery.

Suno stated that its team had grown to more than 250 people; value is recorded as a lower bound.

Moonshot opened public beta access to Kimi Claw, a persistent cloud agent workspace.

Baidu released an upgraded 0.9B document-parsing vision-language model.

Genspark updated its workspace around voice-first task delegation and autonomous work completion.

Modal added richer observability and management controls for running Sandboxes.

Modal became available through the AWS and Google Cloud marketplaces.

Cohere launched Model Vault for dedicated, fully managed and isolated model inference.

xAI launched next-generation image and video generation through the Grok Imagine API, alongside a Batch API for high-volume workloads.

Moonshot released Kimi K2.5, adding native multimodal capabilities and stronger agentic coding.

DeepSeek published its second-generation visual causal-flow OCR model.

Agent Bricks Knowledge Assistant became generally available, powered by instructed retrieval and MLflow evaluation.

Mistral AI expanded Vibe into a fuller agentic development environment for software teams.

Synthesia raised a $200 million Series E to expand its enterprise AI video and workforce-learning platform.

NVIDIA agreed to test and validate CoreWeave’s platform software and reference architectures to accelerate deployment of AI factories.

NVIDIA employee count reported for fiscal year-end 2026.

NVIDIA had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $4.560 trillion as of Jan 25, 2026 (NASDAQ: NVDA), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Scale researchers released LHAW, a framework for generating underspecified long-horizon tasks and evaluating whether agents clarify ambiguity and recover performance.

Lower-bound adoption proxy based on four customer organizations named in the source: RBC, Ensemble Health Partners, SAP and Oracle.

Reported Cohere workforce in January 2026.

Cursor launched reusable Skills for packaging task-specific agent instructions and workflows.

Cursor launched specialized subagents for decomposing and parallelizing complex coding work.

Cursor 2.4 introduced subagents, reusable agent skills, and image generation capabilities.