Releases

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.

Third-party database count of verified companies using IBM watsonx.

Lower-bound adoption proxy based on five major customers publicly named in 2026 reporting: OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, Mistral and IBM.

Estimated DeepSeek workforce using its published company-size range; exact headcount is not disclosed.

Secondary-source estimate of Anthropic's 2026 workforce.

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

OpenEvidence reported supporting approximately 18 million clinical consultations from verified U.S. healthcare professionals during December 2025.

Crusoe's 2025 impact report said the company grew to 1,217 employees, more than doubling headcount for a second consecutive year.

Palantir customer count reported for year-end 2025.

Amazon reported that 250 million customers used Rufus during 2025.

Palantir employee count reported for year-end 2025.

Meta employee count reported for year-end 2025.

IBM reported 264,300 employees in wholly owned subsidiaries and 8,700 in less-than-wholly-owned subsidiaries.

Alphabet employee count reported for year-end 2025.

CoreWeave employee count reported in its 2025 Form 10-K.

Baidu-reported employee count at year-end 2025.

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.

Lovable raised a $330 million Series B led by CapitalG and Menlo Ventures' Anthology fund.

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.

Tinker became generally available with vision input, Kimi K2 Thinking support and an OpenAI-compatible sampling interface.

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.