Releases

Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics launched Reachy Mini, a compact open-source desktop robot aimed at developers, researchers, and educators.

Perplexity launched Comet, an AI-native browser with an embedded assistant, initially for Max subscribers and waitlisted users.

xAI removed inappropriate Grok posts containing antisemitic tropes and praise for Hitler, tightened hate-speech controls and later explained that a system update had made the bot too susceptible to extremist user content.

xAI launched Grok 4 with native tool use and real-time search, plus the higher-compute Grok 4 Heavy multi-agent variant.

Microsoft releases Phi-4 Mini Flash Reasoning for fast reasoning on edge, mobile and real-time systems.

Hugging Face released a fully open 3B multilingual model with 128K context, switchable reasoning, tool use, and a disclosed training recipe.

CoreWeave announced an all-stock agreement to acquire Core Scientific and increase direct ownership of power and HPC data-center infrastructure.

Ilya Sutskever took over as chief executive after co-founder and former CEO Daniel Gross left the company; Daniel Levy became president.

Mistral AI introduced AI for Citizens, a sovereign AI offering for governments and public-sector institutions.

Palantir launched Warp Speed for Warships to apply industrial AI and manufacturing software to U.S. shipbuilding.

Perplexity launched Max, a premium subscription tier with expanded access to frontier models and new products.

Skild AI raised a reported $135 million Series B backed by strategic and venture investors including NVIDIA, Samsung and SoftBank.

Baidu introduced enterprise AI agents designed as role-specific digital workers.

Morgan Stanley arranged $5 billion of debt financing and xAI separately raised $5 billion in strategic equity to fund AI infrastructure and product development.

Lovable introduced Agent Mode in beta, enabling the product to plan and take actions autonomously while building software.

CoreWeave had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $83.1 billion as of Jun 30, 2025 (NASDAQ: CRWV), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Baidu had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $29.5 billion as of Jun 30, 2025 (NASDAQ: BIDU), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

IBM had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $274.0 billion as of Jun 30, 2025 (NYSE: IBM), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Palantir had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $321.7 billion as of Jun 30, 2025 (NASDAQ: PLTR), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Meta had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $1.856 trillion as of Jun 30, 2025 (NASDAQ: META), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Amazon had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $2.329 trillion as of Jun 30, 2025 (NASDAQ: AMZN), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Alphabet had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $2.145 trillion as of Jun 30, 2025 (NASDAQ: GOOGL), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Microsoft had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $3.697 trillion as of Jun 30, 2025 (NASDAQ: MSFT), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Suno acquired WavTool to add advanced digital-audio-workstation technology.

Baidu open-sourced ten ERNIE 4.5 variants spanning dense and mixture-of-experts text and vision-language models.

Meta consolidated its frontier AI efforts into Meta Superintelligence Labs, led by Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang with Nat Friedman overseeing AI products and applied research.

Crusoe and Redwood Materials announced a large second-life EV-battery deployment intended to support modular AI infrastructure.

Crusoe launched Spark, a turnkey prefabricated modular AI data-center system for deploying scalable compute near demand.

Google releases Gemma 3n weights and tools for efficient multimodal AI on edge devices.

Genspark reported that Super Agent reached $10 million ARR in nine days and $36 million ARR after 45 days.

Legora launched an agentic framework for orchestrating multi-step legal tasks from natural-language instructions.

ElevenLabs released Voice Design v3 for creating voices from natural-language descriptions.

Oracle and xAI made Grok 3 and Grok 3 Mini available through OCI Generative AI.

Google DeepMind introduces AlphaGenome to predict regulatory effects of DNA sequence variants at high resolution.

Harvey made its customizable Workflow Builder available to all customers; the product later became Agent Builder.

Google DeepMind introduces an on-device vision-language-action model that runs locally on robots.

Abridge reported partnerships with more than 150 enterprise health systems in the United States.

Abridge closed a $300 million Series E led by Andreessen Horowitz and joined by Khosla Ventures.

Harvey raised $300 million at a $5 billion valuation.

Google transfers the A2A protocol project to the Linux Foundation to support neutral, industry-wide governance.

Mistral AI released Mistral Small 3.2 with improved instruction following, function calling and reduced repetition.

Meta and EssilorLuxottica introduced performance-focused Oakley Meta HSTN AI glasses.

Harvey and LexisNexis partnered to integrate primary law, Protégé, and Shepard's citations and co-develop legal workflows.

Midjourney released its first image-to-video model to the full community.

Databricks introduced managed Model Context Protocol servers for Unity Catalog functions, Genie spaces and AI Search indexes.

Applied Intuition announced a $600 million Series F financing and tender offer, comprising primary and secondary capital.

Google introduces Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite as a high-throughput, low-cost model in preview.

Google makes Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash generally available for developers and enterprises.

Cursor introduced the $200-per-month Ultra tier for power users with substantially higher usage.

Moonshot released a 72B software-engineering model optimized using reinforcement learning.