Releases

IBM released modular adapter functions for RAG, safety and core model capabilities.

IBM positioned its open Mellea generative-programming library as the runtime for modular Granite adapters.

Perplexity launched a set of Computer workflows for growing small and midsize businesses.

Pinterest committed $4 billion through 2031 for AWS infrastructure including Trainium and Graviton to power AI discovery.

NVIDIA made the 550-billion-parameter Nemotron 3 Ultra open model available for long-running agent workflows.

Suno raised more than $400 million in Series D funding at a $5.4 billion post-money valuation.

Reuters reported DeepSeek was set to raise about RMB50B from investors including Tencent and CATL, at a projected $52B-$59B post-money valuation.

SpaceXAI released grok-imagine-video-1.5-preview through the API for image-to-video generation.

Meta introduced an AI business agent that can learn from a company's public content and support customer conversations across Meta surfaces.

Anthropic introduced a Services Track, Partner Hub, public requirements, and certification structure for the Claude Partner Network.

Cognition launched Devin Desktop, the next generation of Windsurf, centered on managing local and cloud coding agents inside an IDE.

Cursor published lessons from operating cloud coding agents at scale.

Perplexity introduced local and hybrid execution that moves selected Computer workloads onto users' machines.

Microsoft AI announces MAI-Voice-2 Flash as a lower-cost, ultra-efficient speech-generation variant.

Microsoft AI launches MAI-Voice-2 with natural multilingual speech generation and safeguarded short-sample voice adaptation.

Microsoft AI launches MAI-Transcribe-1.5 with high-speed transcription and support for domain terminology across 43 languages.

Microsoft AI launches a lower-cost, latency-optimized Flash variant of MAI-Image-2.5.

Microsoft AI launches MAI-Image-2.5 for high-fidelity text-to-image generation and controllable image editing.

Microsoft AI launches MAI-Code-1-Flash, an efficient agentic coding model integrated into GitHub Copilot and VS Code.

Microsoft AI launches MAI-Thinking-1, its flagship in-house reasoning model for complex instructions, mathematics and coding.

Microsoft AI introduces Frontier Tuning, using reinforcement-learning environments to adapt MAI models to organization-specific workflows.

Microsoft introduces Agent 365 as the trust, management and observability layer for enterprise AI agents.

Microsoft IQ becomes generally available across GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Foundry and Copilot Studio as an enterprise context layer for agents.

Microsoft introduces an integrated enterprise agent platform spanning GitHub, Foundry, Microsoft IQ, Copilot Studio, security and governance.

Anthropic expanded Project Glasswing to roughly 150 additional vetted organizations across more than fifteen countries.