Releases

Amazon unveiled its first fulfillment robot with a sense of touch for handling items in densely packed storage.

Anthropic released a web search tool for developers building Claude-powered applications.

Harvey upgraded Draft Mode with a reasoning model for longer, more accurate legal drafting.

Harvey refreshed Assist Mode with workflow-aware chat, thinking states, and knowledge-source suggestions.

Harvey introduced curated internal knowledge bases within Vault.

xAI, TWG Global, and Palantir formed a partnership to deploy AI products and workflows across financial services.

IBM introduced a conversational business-intelligence product grounded in enterprise semantics.

IBM introduced a catalog with more than 150 partner and IBM agents and tools.

IBM expanded watsonx Orchestrate with agent creation, multi-agent orchestration and integrations across business applications.

CoreWeave completed its acquisition of Weights & Biases, creating an end-to-end AI cloud spanning infrastructure, model development, and evaluation.

Anthropic launched a program providing API credits to researchers pursuing high-impact scientific projects.

Suno released v4.5 with richer vocals, genre accuracy, and improved prompt interpretation.

Cursor expanded access to Background Agent for asynchronous remote coding work.

Modal released the 1.0 generation of its Python client and SDK.

Moonshot published the seven-billion-parameter Kimi-Audio checkpoint.

Moonshot introduced an open audio-language model family covering audio understanding and generation.

Hugging Face began broad deployment of Xet-based storage and transfers across Hub repositories, bringing deduplication and faster large-file operations.

Anthropic launched remote MCP integrations and expanded Claude Research across web, workspace, and connected tools.

DeepSeek released 7B and 671B theorem-proving models and ProverBench.

AWS released its most capable first-generation Nova model with a one-million-token context window.

Microsoft releases Phi-4 Mini Reasoning for efficient step-by-step mathematical reasoning on constrained hardware.

Microsoft releases Phi-4 Reasoning Plus, adding reinforcement learning for stronger and longer reasoning traces.

Microsoft releases Phi-4 Reasoning, a 14-billion-parameter model trained for complex multistep math, science and coding tasks.

Meta launched a standalone personalized AI assistant app built with Llama 4 and connected to meta.ai and AI glasses.

LeRobot introduced the SO-101, a refined low-cost open robot arm for collecting demonstrations and training robotic policies.

NVIDIA had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $2.709 trillion as of Apr 27, 2025 (NASDAQ: NVDA), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Baidu released an enhanced and lower-cost reasoning model.

Baidu released an enhanced ERNIE 4.5 with improved performance and lower pricing.

Perplexity partnered with Motorola to pre-install its app and integrate Perplexity Assistant into Moto AI on new devices.

Microsoft begins rolling out its Wave 2 spring release with Researcher, Analyst, Agent Store, richer creation and expanded enterprise search.

OpenAI released its native multimodal image-generation model gpt-image-1 through the API.

xAI added conversational voice interaction to the standalone Grok experience.

Anthropic joined Palantir FedStart to accelerate deployment of Claude capabilities to U.S. government customers.

Meta released vision encoders for images and video designed to support recognition, localization and multimodal systems.

Google introduces Gemini 2.5 Flash with hybrid reasoning and controls over how much the model thinks.

IBM added the Granite 3.3 8B instruction model to watsonx.ai and open distribution channels.

IBM added the Granite 3.3 2B instruction model to watsonx.ai and open distribution channels.

Modal raised asynchronous function-call input capacity to one million items.

OpenAI released Codex CLI, an open-source coding agent that runs in the terminal.

OpenAI released o4-mini, a smaller reasoning model optimized for fast, cost-efficient reasoning.

OpenAI released o3, a reasoning model with strong performance across coding, mathematics, science, and visual tasks.

Cohere introduced Embed 4 for multimodal retrieval across text, images and complex enterprise documents in more than 100 languages.

xAI launched Grok Studio, a browser workspace for drafting documents, writing code and building projects with Grok.

Anthropic launched Research for multi-step cited investigation across the web and Google Workspace.

Hugging Face acquired Pollen Robotics, maker of Reachy robots, to accelerate its open-source robotics strategy and connect physical hardware with the LeRobot ecosystem.

OpenAI released GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano in the API with improved coding and instruction following.

Databricks and Google Cloud expanded joint go-to-market and product integrations for Gemini models and enterprise AI.

Google introduces the open Agent2Agent protocol with more than 50 partners to enable interoperable agent collaboration.

Google Cloud releases the open-source Agent Development Kit for building and orchestrating multi-agent systems.

Google Cloud announces Ironwood, its seventh-generation TPU designed for large-scale inference and thinking models.