Releases

Midjourney retired the V8.0 alpha after V8.2 became available.

Midjourney launched its V8-era dedicated Edit Model.

Midjourney released V8.2 as the default model with improved aesthetics, image quality, personalization, and a new Edit Model.

SpaceXAI launched a Grok add-on for Google Sheets, Slides and Docs.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 with improvements in coding, long-running agents, professional work, and scientific reasoning.

Microsoft's legal and compliance organization expanded its collaboration with and use of Harvey.

Harvey launched ethical-wall enforcement through its Intapp integration.

Grok Build gained workflow orchestration for fanning tasks across many agents, verifying results and reporting in the background.

IBM reported total revenue of $17.162 billion for the second quarter of 2026.

Alphabet reported consolidated revenues of $119.8 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2026, up 24% year over year.

Cursor launched Router, a model-routing system that dynamically selects an appropriate coding model.

SpaceXAI expanded Grok 4.5 availability across grok.com, X, iOS and Android.

Applied Intuition launched Dana, an AI-native platform for developing and validating production-grade physical AI systems.

SpaceXAI launched a Microsoft Outlook add-in for thread summaries and drafting replies.

Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash with stronger reasoning and agentic performance at Flash-class latency.

Google DeepMind introduces Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber for defensive cybersecurity analysis and agentic workflows.

Google launches Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite for cost-efficient production workloads.

Shield AI and GE Aerospace completed engine and thrust-vectoring integration testing for X-BAT.

Cursor published research on the economics and scaling behavior of large coding-agent swarms.

Moonshot temporarily paused new Kimi subscriptions as demand for K3 strained available capacity.

SpaceXAI launched a Microsoft Excel add-in for natural-language analysis, formulas and scenarios.

A federal court granted final approval to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors over pirated copies of books held in its training library.

Reuters reported DeepSeek was planning a second fundraising round ahead of a potential mainland IPO. The target valuation is retained as metadata because the round was not completed.

Sierra launched long-horizon agents that orchestrate inbound and outbound interactions over days or weeks using persistent context and planning.

Kimi K3 launched with native vision, agentic capabilities and a one-million-token context window.

Moonshot introduced Kimi K3, its 2.8T-parameter native multimodal frontier model family.

A Chinese stock-exchange filing disclosed an indirect 0.8265% stake and implied a RMB350.88B ($51.82B) company valuation.

Databricks signed a Coatue-led strategic-funding term sheet valuing the company at $188 billion, with proceeds targeted at Unity AI Gateway, Genie and Lakebase.

SpaceXAI added scheduled and trigger-based automations that run jobs and report results.

SpaceXAI introduced Grok 4.5 as its strongest model for coding, agentic tasks and knowledge work, trained alongside Cursor.

Thinking Machines published Inkling's full weights and made the model available for customization through Tinker.

Thinking Machines released Inkling, a 975B-total-parameter multimodal mixture-of-experts model with 41B active parameters and up to a one-million-token context window.

Perplexity launched secure isolated sandboxes for agent code execution and tool use.

SpaceXAI open-sourced the Grok Build coding-agent harness and terminal user interface.

NVIDIA introduced an edge-optimized Cosmos 3 model for real-time physical AI systems.

Cognition reported that its combined team grew from 44 to 350 people in the year after joining with Windsurf.

Nebius agreed to supply approximately $1 billion of AI compute capacity to Reflection.

Cohere Labs documented the Tiny Aya family and community applications for compact open multilingual AI.

Mistral AI Studio added centralized prompt and skills management for enterprise AI systems.

AWS made OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna generally available through Amazon Bedrock.

Meta launched an API for developers to access and build with Muse Spark 1.1.

Meta released Muse Spark 1.1 and made it available through Meta Model API.

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work, a workspace for longer, multi-step professional tasks powered by GPT-5.6.

OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna broadly across ChatGPT, Codex, and the API.

Cognition released SWE-1.7, its then-most-capable coding model, optimized for long-horizon agentic tasks and served at up to 1,000 tokens per second.

SambaNova disclosed that JPMorganChase selected its reconfigurable dataflow units for enterprise AI inference.

SambaNova completed the first close of a $1 billion financing led by Vista Equity Partners and others to scale its AI inference business.

Mistral AI released Robostral Navigate, a vision-language-action model for robotic navigation.

SpaceXAI made Grok 4.5 available through the API for coding, agentic tasks and knowledge work.

OpenAI released GPT-Live-1 and GPT-Live-1 mini for low-latency, natively multimodal voice and realtime interaction.