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.