Releases

IBM announced an agentic control plane for deploying and governing agents from multiple sources.

Perplexity launched specialized professional-finance workflows in Computer.

Perplexity added premium clinical and health-information sources to its health experience.

Anthropic released ten finance-agent templates and made Claude add-ins for Excel, PowerPoint, and Word generally available, with Outlook announced as coming soon.

Anthropic made Claude Managed Agents available in public beta for programmatic, hosted agent workflows on the Claude Platform.

Sierra reported serving more than 40% of the Fortune 50, with agents on its platform powering billions of customer interactions.

Sierra raised $950 million from new and existing investors led by Tiger Global and GV.

Perplexity launched Computer inside Microsoft Teams.

Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs announced a new AI services company focused on deploying Claude at mid-sized enterprises.

Scale signed a memorandum of understanding with the U.S. Department of Energy to explore AI-ready scientific data infrastructure, evaluations, and model applications for the Genesis Mission.

Anthropic disclosed that annualized run-rate revenue had crossed $47 billion earlier in May 2026.

Sacra estimates Replit hit $525 million in annualized revenue in April 2026, up from $300 million at the end of 2025. Third-party estimate; Replit has not disclosed current revenue and says only that it is on track for $1 billion in ARR by the end of 2026.

Moonshot AI's annual recurring revenue surpassed $200 million in April 2026 as subscription and API revenue accelerated, according to the adviser statement accompanying its roughly $2 billion funding round announced on 7 May 2026.

Cursor described its continuously improving agent harness and the feedback loops used to develop coding agents.

CoreWeave added guided self-service and SUNK Anywhere so research teams could deploy production-grade Slurm-on-Kubernetes training on CoreWeave and other clouds.

CoreWeave launched private cross-cloud networking alongside SUNK Anywhere and LOTA Cross-Cloud to simplify distributed AI workloads.

LOTA Cross-Cloud extended CoreWeave’s local object-transport acceleration to data held outside CoreWeave regions.

Perplexity expanded Computer with connected workplace applications and enterprise workflows.

SpaceXAI launched voice cloning from short recordings for text-to-speech and voice-agent APIs.

ElevenLabs launched ElevenMusic as a dedicated music-creation application.

IBM published the 8B base and instruct Granite 4.1 models.

IBM published the 30B base and instruct Granite 4.1 models.

IBM published the 3B base and instruct Granite 4.1 models.

IBM released Granite 4.1 language, vision, speech, embedding and Guardian models under Apache 2.0.

AWS expanded Quick with a desktop application, Free and Plus plans, visual-asset generation and new integrations.