Releases

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

Scale reported that 2025 was its strongest financial year, with more than $1 billion in new business, profitable data operations, and accelerating applications and government work.

Accenture and Palantir expanded their partnership around sovereign AI transformation and operating systems.

Deutsche Telekom and ElevenLabs partnered on enterprise voice-AI deployments.

Google releases FunctionGemma, a compact open model specialized for function calling and on-device agent workflows.

Anthropic expanded Labs as a dedicated team for incubating experimental products at the frontier of Claude's capabilities.

Anthropic released Cowork as a research preview, bringing Claude's agentic capabilities to desktop work across files and applications.

Anthropic introduced HIPAA-ready Claude tools and resources for healthcare providers, payers, health-tech companies, and individuals, alongside expanded life-sciences capabilities.

Midjourney and Spellbrush released Niji V7 with improved coherency, line work, and prompt adherence.

ElevenLabs released Scribe v2 with improved multilingual transcription and audio understanding.

Cursor CLI added model selection, MCP management, rules support, and renamed its main command to agent.

Perplexity launched a specialized offering for public-safety organizations.

xAI closed an upsized $20 billion Series E, above its $15 billion target; contemporaneous reporting placed the company’s valuation at more than $230 billion.

CoreWeave announced it would extend its cloud platform with NVIDIA’s Rubin architecture for the next generation of AI training and inference.

NVIDIA released Cosmos Transfer 2.5, Predict 2.5 and Reason 2, updated GR00T N1.6, and introduced Jetson T4000.

Baidu announced a proposed spin-off and separate listing of its Kunlunxin AI-chip business.

Shield AI documented its AI analytics platform for scoring and visualizing flight maneuvers.

Amazon reported approximately 1,576,000 full- and part-time employees as of December 31, 2025.

CoreWeave had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $35.7 billion as of Dec 31, 2025 (NASDAQ: CRWV), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Baidu had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $44.9 billion as of Dec 31, 2025 (NASDAQ: BIDU), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

IBM had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $276.9 billion as of Dec 31, 2025 (NYSE: IBM), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Palantir had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $423.7 billion as of Dec 31, 2025 (NASDAQ: PLTR), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Meta had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $1.664 trillion as of Dec 31, 2025 (NASDAQ: META), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Amazon had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $2.468 trillion as of Dec 31, 2025 (NASDAQ: AMZN), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Alphabet had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $3.781 trillion as of Dec 31, 2025 (NASDAQ: GOOGL), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Microsoft had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $3.594 trillion as of Dec 31, 2025 (NASDAQ: MSFT), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Moonshot completed a reported $500 million financing at a $4.3 billion valuation.

CoreWeave ended 2025 with 43 active data centers, more than 850 MW of active power, and approximately 3.1 GW of contracted power.

xAI published its frontier-AI risk-management framework covering capability evaluation, safeguards and model development practices.

NVIDIA market capitalisation at end of calendar year 2025, up 38% year-over-year. NVIDIA remained the world's most valuable public company, sustained by record data centre AI GPU demand.

xAI launched secure team and enterprise Grok plans with no training on customer data, team administration, SSO and SCIM options.

xAI launched an expanded production Collections API for retrieval-augmented generation directly within the Grok API.

xAI announced selection to deliver frontier AI capabilities for the U.S. Department of War.

Graphite entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Cursor while initially continuing to operate its code-review platform independently.

Anthropic and the US Department of Energy announced a multi-year partnership supporting energy, life-sciences, and scientific-productivity work across national laboratories.

OpenAI released GPT-5.2-Codex, an agentic coding model optimized for long-horizon software engineering.

Mistral AI released Mistral OCR 3 with improved document parsing and structured extraction.

xAI launched its Voice Agent API for developers building real-time conversational voice systems.

Google launches Gemini 3 Flash as a fast, production-oriented model in the Gemini 3 family.

OpenAI opened app submissions and launched an app directory in ChatGPT.

Databricks announced it was raising more than $4 billion in Series L equity financing at a $134 billion valuation.

Meta released a unified multimodal model for separating sounds from complex mixtures using natural prompts.

NVIDIA introduced Nemotron 3 Nano, Super and Ultra open models and companion reinforcement-learning and evaluation tools.

Harvey delivered major performance, personalization, multimodal, and workflow integration upgrades across Assistant and Vault.

Cohere launched Rerank 4, its fourth-generation retrieval model family in Pro and Fast tiers.

xAI and El Salvador announced a nationwide AI education program using Grok in the country’s schools.

OpenAI released GPT-5.2 with improvements for professional knowledge work and long-context tasks.

CoreWeave expanded Mission Control with Telemetry Relay entering GA, GPU Straggler Detection in preview, and the Mission Control Agent in preview.

Mistral AI launched Vibe CLI, an agentic command-line coding environment powered by Devstral.

Mistral AI released Devstral 2, its second-generation open code-agent model.

Anthropic donated MCP to the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation while retaining its open, community-driven governance model.

The New York Times filed suit alleging copyright infringement involving Perplexity's search and answer products.

Meta announced content partnerships to bring more real-time news and information into Meta AI responses.

Palantir, NVIDIA, and CenterPoint Energy launched Chain Reaction to coordinate AI infrastructure and critical supply chains.

Perplexity released BrowseSafe research on detecting and mitigating threats in AI browsers.

Mistral AI released the Mistral 3 generation, including open-weight Mistral Large 3 and Ministral 3 models in 3B, 8B and 14B sizes.

AWS and NVIDIA announced infrastructure for deploying integrated AI factories in customers' own data centers.

AWS announced policy controls and automated evaluations for production AI agents.

AWS expanded Amazon Connect with production agentic AI for customer-service interactions.

AWS introduced a frontier agent for investigating and resolving cloud operational incidents.

AWS launched 3nm Trainium3-powered EC2 UltraServers for model training and inference.

AWS launched a service for organizations to create customized frontier models using Nova checkpoints and training infrastructure.

AWS released a unified embedding model for text, documents, images, video and audio.

AWS released its second-generation speech-to-speech foundation model.

AWS introduced a unified multimodal reasoning and image-generation model in preview.

AWS introduced its most intelligent Nova 2 model for complex multistep tasks in preview.

AWS released a fast multimodal reasoning model with extended thinking, built-in tools and a one-million-token context window.

Runway released Gen-4.5 with improved visual fidelity, motion quality, and prompt adherence.

Baidu integrated Wenku and Baidu Drive into a new group focused on AI application innovation.

DeepSeek offered a temporary high-compute reasoning endpoint until December 15.

DeepSeek upgraded chat and reasoner services to the production V3.2 model.

Qatar’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology launched the Arabic-first ALIF AI fluency program with Scale AI for government professionals.

Transformers v5 entered release candidate with simplified model definitions, standardized attention interfaces, and support for more than 400 architectures.

AWS expanded Transform to modernize application, database and user-interface layers of Windows workloads.

Oracle had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $575.7 billion as of Nov 30, 2025 (NYSE: ORCL), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

DeepSeek released its self-verifiable mathematical reasoning model.

Cohere and SAP expanded collaboration to offer sovereign AI solutions for European customers.

Perplexity introduced persistent memory for AI assistants to personalize future interactions.

Suno and Warner Music Group partnered on licensed next-generation music models and artist experiences.

Perplexity relaunched Shopping as a free personalized conversational shopping experience with native purchasing.

AWS announced plans to invest up to $50 billion to expand AI and high-performance-computing infrastructure for US government customers.

Anthropic expanded Claude for Chrome beyond the waitlist to all Claude Max subscribers.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.5 for coding, agents, computer use, research, and professional work.

Perplexity launched a native Android version of the Comet AI browser.

Google launches Gemini 3 Pro Image, branded Nano Banana Pro, for professional image generation and editing.

Suno raised a $250 million Series C at a $2.45 billion post-money valuation.

Perplexity announced a partnership to provide its services to United States government users.

xAI signed a framework agreement with Saudi Arabia and HUMAIN covering Grok deployment, agent-platform integration and AI infrastructure.

xAI released Grok 4.1 Fast and an Agent Tools API with X search, web search, code execution and collections search.

Meta released a model for estimating human body pose and shape from a single image.

Meta released a model for reconstructing 3D objects and scenes from a single image.

Meta released SAM 3 for text-, exemplar- and visual-prompted detection, segmentation and tracking in images and video.

NVIDIA reported Q3 fiscal 2026 record revenue of $57.0 billion, up 62% year-over-year and 22% sequentially. Data Center revenue was $51.2 billion (+66% YoY). Net income was $31.9 billion (GAAP). Jensen Huang noted 'Blackwell sales are off the charts, and cloud GPUs are sold out.'

Replit launched an AI design mode for rapid interactive mockups and websites.

Databricks became an early Microsoft Agent 365 partner, bringing governed Agent Bricks experiences to Teams, Outlook and Excel.

Microsoft and Anthropic expand their partnership, bringing Claude models to Microsoft Foundry and Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Google launches Antigravity, an agent-first development environment built around autonomous planning, coding and verification.

Google launches Gemini 3 Pro for advanced multimodal reasoning, coding and agentic work.

Anthropic and Microsoft expanded their partnership, bringing Claude models to Microsoft Foundry and Microsoft 365 Copilot.

ElevenLabs launched visual-generation workflows alongside its audio tools.