Releases

Runway expanded node-based workflows for multi-stage media generation and post-production.

Scale updated its mission to developing reliable AI systems for the world’s most important decisions, reflecting its expansion from data infrastructure into applications and evaluation.

The U.S. defense department awarded Scale a five-year production agreement with an initial $100 million ceiling for data operations, computer vision, GenAI, and Donovan capabilities.

Hugging Face discontinued HUGS model-deployment containers and directed users toward enterprise collections and other deployment paths.

Oracle had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $635.2 billion as of Aug 31, 2025 (NYSE: ORCL), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Anthropic disclosed that annualized revenue had exceeded $5 billion by August 2025.

Oracle opened beta access to Google Vertex AI through OCI Generative AI.

Cohere released its first dedicated machine-translation model, supporting 23 languages and private deployments.

xAI released a speedy and economical reasoning model optimized for agentic coding.

Microsoft AI releases MAI-Voice-1, its first in-house expressive speech-generation model, through Copilot experiences.

Microsoft AI begins public testing of MAI-1 Preview, its first end-to-end internally trained foundation model.

NVIDIA reported Q2 fiscal 2026 revenue of $46.7 billion, up 56% year-over-year and 6% sequentially. Data Center revenue reached $41.1 billion. Net income was $26.4 billion (GAAP). NVIDIA approved an additional $60 billion share repurchase authorization.

Perplexity introduced Comet Plus, a subscription program designed to fund participating publishers and premium content.

xAI and X filed a U.S. federal antitrust suit alleging that Apple and OpenAI conspired to disadvantage rival generative-AI products and Grok in App Store distribution.

NVIDIA began availability of its Blackwell-powered Jetson Thor robotics computer.

xAI released the trained Grok-2 checkpoint for community use under the Grok 2 Community License.

DeepSeek released a hybrid thinking model with improved reasoning efficiency and agent capabilities.

Cohere launched a controllable hybrid reasoning model for complex enterprise agents across 23 languages.

Clay introduced browser interaction capabilities that let Claygent navigate forms, filters, and interactive data sources.

xAI published the Grok 4 model card covering evaluations, safeguards, abuse potential and dual-use capabilities.

EliseAI disclosed that it had surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue earlier in 2025.

EliseAI reported that full-time headcount had grown from 150 to more than 300 since its Series D.

EliseAI raised a $250 million Series E led by Andreessen Horowitz.

xAI released the Collections API for file upload, embeddings and retrieval-augmented inference.

Cohere announced former Uber executive Francois Chadwick as chief financial officer alongside its funding round.