Releases

Baseten raised a $75 million Series C co-led by IVP and Spark Capital to expand mission-critical AI inference infrastructure.

xAI unveiled Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini with reasoning modes, DeepSearch and Think capabilities trained on Colossus.

Microsoft Research and Xbox introduce Muse, a generative world and action model trained on gameplay sequences.

At launch, Thinking Machines Lab was reported to have approximately 30 employees, including a number of former OpenAI researchers and engineers.

Mira Murati publicly introduced Thinking Machines Lab and its mission to build AI systems that are more understandable, customizable and collaborative.

Perplexity released R1 1776, an open-weight post-trained version of DeepSeek-R1 intended to reduce censorship while retaining reasoning capability.

Abridge reported deployments at more than 100 U.S. health systems.

Abridge introduced a contextual reasoning architecture that combines conversations, historical patient context, documentation preferences and revenue-cycle requirements.

Abridge raised $250 million in a Series D co-led by Elad Gil and IVP to expand AI capabilities and commercial deployments.

Mistral AI reported one million Le Chat mobile app downloads; downloads are an adoption proxy, not unique active users.

South Korea's privacy regulator suspended new downloads while reviewing personal-data protections.

Mistral AI released Mistral Saba, a 24B regional language model optimized for Arabic and languages of the Middle East and South Asia.

Perplexity launched Deep Research, an autonomous mode that performs many searches, evaluates sources and writes cited reports.

Glean launched a horizontal environment for building, deploying, orchestrating and governing enterprise agents.

Harvey raised $300 million at a $3 billion valuation in a Sequoia-led Series D.

Scale published MASK as part of its safety research program for testing whether models knowingly state beliefs inconsistent with their internal representations.

Scale released FORTRESS to evaluate frontier-model safeguards against dual-use national-security and public-safety risks.

Perplexity released a faster in-house Sonar model built on Llama 3.3 70B and served through Cerebras for Pro search.

Cohere and RBC began co-developing North for Banking for secure, regulated financial-services work.

Cohere introduced Compass as North's multimodal search and discovery backbone for governed enterprise data.

Cohere opened early access to North, an all-in-one secure AI workspace combining models, enterprise search and agents.

A consortium led by xAI submitted an unsolicited $97.4 billion offer for the nonprofit controlling OpenAI; the proposal was rejected and did not proceed.

Anthropic launched the Economic Index to measure how AI is being used across occupations and tasks.

Meta released PARTNR, a benchmark, dataset and planning model for human-robot collaboration on household tasks.

Mistral AI relaunched Le Chat with iOS and Android apps, Pro and Team plans, faster inference, image generation and an Enterprise preview.

Meta researchers introduced a non-invasive deep-learning system for decoding typed sentences from EEG and MEG brain recordings.

Google releases Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite in public preview as its lowest-cost Gemini 2.0 model.

Google releases an experimental Gemini 2.0 Pro for coding and complex prompts with a two-million-token context window.

Gemini 2.0 Flash becomes generally available through the Gemini API, Google AI Studio and Vertex AI.

Physical Intelligence released π0 model weights, code and supporting resources for research use.

Australia directed federal entities to remove and prevent DeepSeek products on government systems and devices.

CoreWeave became the first cloud provider to make rack-scale NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 instances generally available through its Kubernetes service.

xAI released the standalone Grok app for Android.

Anthropic published and tested Constitutional Classifiers, a safeguard approach designed to resist broad classes of jailbreaks.

OpenAI launched deep research, an agentic ChatGPT capability for multi-step web research and synthesis.

Mistral's annualized revenue run rate was about $20 million in early 2025, according to CEO Arthur Mensch's February 2026 comments to the Financial Times comparing it with the $400 million-plus run rate a year later.

Moonshot released Moonlight, a 16B MoE model used to evaluate Muon optimization at scale.

xAI completed the second phase of Colossus 1, doubling the interconnected cluster to roughly 200,000 NVIDIA H100/H200 GPUs.

OpenAI released o3-mini, a cost-efficient reasoning model optimized for science, mathematics, and coding.

ElevenLabs raised $180 million at a $3.3 billion valuation.

Italy's data-protection authority ordered an immediate restriction on DeepSeek's processing of Italian users' personal data.

Mistral AI released Mistral Small 3, a 24B latency-optimized open-weight model.

Google rolls out Gemini 2.0 Flash as the default model in the Gemini app.

CoreWeave detailed Mission Control capabilities for infrastructure validation, proactive node replacement, fleet health, and AI cluster observability.

Perplexity introduced Sonar Reasoning and Sonar Reasoning Pro for search-grounded analytical queries.

Lovable reported reaching $10 million in annual recurring revenue roughly two months after launch.

Hugging Face launched a unified inference layer that lets developers call models across multiple providers through one API and billing experience.

Genspark introduced Deep Research for longer-running, multi-source research tasks.

IBM launched an AI-powered delivery platform for consultants and client transformation work.

DeepSeek released scaled 1B and 7B Janus-Pro checkpoints with improved understanding and image generation.