Releases

Anthropic launched Claude Max with substantially higher usage limits for frequent individual users.

IBM introduced z17 with Telum II and support for accelerated enterprise inference.

AWS released a unified speech-to-speech foundation model for low-latency conversational applications.

Runway released the faster and cost-efficient Gen-4 Turbo video model.

Meta released a multimodal safety classifier for Llama 4 inputs and outputs.

Meta previewed Behemoth as a teacher model for the Llama 4 family; it was not made generally available.

Meta released Llama 4 Maverick, a natively multimodal mixture-of-experts model for general AI workloads.

Meta released Llama 4 Scout, a natively multimodal mixture-of-experts model with a 10-million-token context window.

Hugging Face reported that Gradio had reached one million monthly users, reflecting its adoption for open AI demos and applications.

Microsoft updates Copilot with personalization through Memory, task execution through Actions, Deep Research and expanded Vision capabilities.

Runway raised $308 million in a General Atlantic-led round at a valuation above $3 billion.

V7 introduced Omni Reference for carrying subjects and visual elements into new images.

V7 introduced a fast, lower-cost Draft Mode for rapid iteration.

Midjourney released V7 with improved prompt precision, image coherence, Draft Mode, and Omni Reference.

xAI made Grok 3 flagship models generally available through its API.

Anthropic announced its first developer conference focused on building with Claude and Claude Code.

CoreWeave submitted the first cloud-provider MLPerf Inference v5.0 results for NVIDIA GB200, reporting more than 800 tokens per second on Llama 3.1 405B.

Anthropic launched Claude for Education for universities, including a learning mode and institution-wide deployments.

Moonshot published the reasoning-oriented Kimi-VL A3B Thinking checkpoint.

Moonshot published the instruction-tuned Kimi-VL A3B checkpoint.

Moonshot introduced Kimi-VL, an open-weight mixture-of-experts vision-language family.

Baidu officially released version 3.0 of its deep-learning framework.

Baidu deployed its P800 accelerator in AI computing services.

Baidu made access to its latest ERNIE models free on PC and mobile.

CoreWeave had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $17.2 billion as of Mar 31, 2025 (NASDAQ: CRWV), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Baidu had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $31.6 billion as of Mar 31, 2025 (NASDAQ: BIDU), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

IBM had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $230.6 billion as of Mar 31, 2025 (NYSE: IBM), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Palantir had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $197.9 billion as of Mar 31, 2025 (NASDAQ: PLTR), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Meta had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $1.460 trillion as of Mar 31, 2025 (NASDAQ: META), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Amazon had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $2.016 trillion as of Mar 31, 2025 (NASDAQ: AMZN), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Alphabet had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $1.894 trillion as of Mar 31, 2025 (NASDAQ: GOOGL), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Microsoft had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $2.791 trillion as of Mar 31, 2025 (NASDAQ: MSFT), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Runway launched Gen-4 References for consistent characters, locations, and objects.

Runway released Gen-4 for coherent and controllable video generation.

Amazon began testing an agentic AI feature that can purchase products from other brands' websites for customers.

Amazon released a browser-use foundation model through the Nova Act research preview.

Amazon introduced Nova Act, a model and SDK for building agents that reliably complete browser-based user-interface tasks.

Anthropic updated its Responsible Scaling Policy to version 2.1.

OpenAI announced $40 billion in new funding led by SoftBank at a $300 billion post-money valuation.

CoreWeave’s Class A common stock began public trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under ticker CRWV.

xAI acquired social network X in an all-stock deal valuing X at $33 billion in equity and xAI at $80 billion, combining data, models, compute and distribution.

CoreWeave priced 37.5 million Class A shares at $40 each, with trading under CRWV scheduled to begin on Nasdaq the next day.

Anthropic published interpretability research tracing internal mechanisms underlying multilingual reasoning, planning, and unfaithful explanations.

Databricks and Anthropic established a partnership to offer Claude models natively through the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.

Amazon introduced an AI shopping feature that continuously searches for new products matching natural-language interests.

Microsoft announces Analyst, a Microsoft 365 Copilot reasoning agent for data analysis, modeling and report creation.

Microsoft announces Researcher and Analyst as reasoning agents for multistep research and data analysis in Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Google introduces Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental as a thinking model for complex reasoning and coding tasks.

OpenAI launched native image generation in GPT-4o for precise, context-aware image creation and editing.

DeepSeek upgraded V3 with stronger reasoning, coding, writing, search and function calling.

Perplexity proposed combining with TikTok's US operations to create a new American company and make its recommendation system transparent.

Oracle launched tools to build, extend, test, deploy and manage agents for Fusion Applications.

Oracle disclosed a broad portfolio of embedded role-based agents across Fusion applications.

CoreWeave launched S3-compatible AI Object Storage with LOTA caching, exabyte-scale design, and performance targeted at training and inference.

Anthropic launched web search for Claude, enabling current answers with direct citations.

Perplexity improved Sonar, Sonar Pro and reasoning models while reducing API prices.

xAI made its image-generation model available through the developer API.

Meta began rolling out its AI assistant across 41 European countries and 21 overseas territories.

NVIDIA introduced a reference design for AI-enabled enterprise storage and query-agent infrastructure.

NVIDIA introduced personal AI computers for local model prototyping and development.

NVIDIA expanded Cosmos with Reason, Transfer and Predict models plus physical AI data tools.

NVIDIA released GR00T N1, an open foundation model for humanoid robot reasoning and skills.

NVIDIA launched a blueprint for enterprise research agents that reason over business data.

NVIDIA released Nano, Super and Ultra open reasoning models for building agentic AI systems.

NVIDIA launched Dynamo to orchestrate and scale distributed generative AI inference.

NVIDIA introduced a Blackwell Ultra DGX SuperPOD design and Mission Control operations software for AI factories.

NVIDIA announced B300 and GB300 Blackwell Ultra systems optimized for AI reasoning.

Perplexity expanded its SoftBank partnership to launch Enterprise Pro in Japan.

Mistral AI released Mistral Small 3.1, adding multimodal understanding and stronger multilingual capabilities.

xAI acquired AI video-generation startup Hotshot, bringing its team and technology into xAI’s multimodal roadmap.

Baidu released its first deep-thinking reasoning model.

Baidu released its first flagship native multimodal foundation model.

Databricks and Palantir partnered to combine data intelligence, ontology, and AI application capabilities.

Cohere released the 111B-parameter Command A, optimized for agents, RAG, tool use and multilingual enterprise workloads.

Cohere made Command A weights available for research and private deployment.

AWS made its unified environment for data, analytics, machine learning and generative AI generally available.

Anthropic released API features designed to reduce token use and improve long-running agent workflows.

Databricks enhanced agent evaluation with customizable LLM judges, human review workflows and OpenTelemetry-based MLflow tracing.

Google DeepMind introduces Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robotics-ER for embodied reasoning and robot control.

Google releases Gemma 3, a multimodal and multilingual open-model family designed to run on a single accelerator.

Harvey launched its client-facing agentic platform for professional legal workflows.

Harvey introduced agentic workflows in Assistant for transactional, litigation, financial-services, and other legal work.

Databricks released APIs for embedding Genie conversational analytics into applications, Teams, Slack and SharePoint.

OpenAI released the open-source Agents SDK for orchestrating single- and multi-agent workflows.

OpenAI launched the Responses API as a new foundation for building agentic applications with built-in tools.

CoreWeave entered a long-term agreement to provide AI infrastructure to OpenAI, with a contract value of up to $11.9 billion.

Mosaic AI Gateway added support for OpenAI-compatible external and custom model providers with centralized permissions, routing and monitoring.

Shield AI introduced a reusable autonomy catalog for mission behaviors and components.

EdgeOS became Hivemind Enterprise's production middleware and edge runtime.

Hivemind Commander provided mission planning and control within the Enterprise suite.

Hivemind Forge became the simulation and autonomy-development environment within Hivemind Enterprise.

Shield AI launched Hivemind Enterprise as a complete autonomy-development suite.

Shield AI completed a $240 million strategic financing at a $5.3 billion valuation.

Mistral AI launched its first OCR model and Document AI capabilities for high-quality document parsing.

Anthropic upgraded its developer Console with tools for prompt development, evaluation, collaboration, and production deployment.

The U.S. Defense Innovation Unit selected Scale to lead Project Thunderforge with Anduril and Microsoft, integrating AI agents into operational military planning.

Google begins testing AI Mode, a conversational Search experience for complex, multimodal questions and follow-ups.

CoreWeave entered an agreement to acquire Weights & Biases and add experiment tracking, model management, evaluation, and monitoring to its AI cloud platform.

Microsoft introduces Dragon Copilot, combining ambient clinical documentation, dictation and healthcare workflow assistance.

Anthropic raised $3.5 billion led by Lightspeed Venture Partners at a $61.5 billion post-money valuation.