Releases

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.

Valuation implied by the funding round "Shield AI raises $240 million at $5.3 billion valuation".

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.

Valuation implied by the funding round "Anthropic raises $3.5 billion Series E at $61.5 billion valuation".

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.

Moonshot released a preview checkpoint for formal mathematical theorem proving.

Moonshot introduced the Kimina-Prover line of open models for formal theorem proving.

Oracle had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $464.5 billion as of Feb 28, 2025 (NYSE: ORCL), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

IBM completed the HashiCorp acquisition, adding Terraform and Vault to its hybrid-cloud and AI platform.

Anthropic launched a public Transparency Hub describing its safety, governance, security, and responsible-deployment practices.

OpenAI released GPT-4.5 as a research preview in ChatGPT and the API.

ElevenLabs launched transcription powered by Scribe.

ElevenLabs released Scribe, its first major speech-to-text model.

IBM released updated compact time-series models for long-range forecasting.

IBM updated its open safety model for detecting risks in prompts and responses.

IBM released a compact vision-language model for document and chart understanding.

IBM released the 8B Granite 3.2 model with controllable reasoning capabilities.

IBM released the 2B Granite 3.2 model with controllable reasoning capabilities.

Amazon announced a generative-AI version of Alexa with natural conversation, personalization and agentic task completion.

Microsoft releases Phi-4 Multimodal, a 5.6-billion-parameter model jointly processing speech, vision and text.

Microsoft releases Phi-4 Mini, a compact long-context language model with multilingual and function-calling capabilities.

Replit released Agent 2 with real-time application design preview.

IBM agreed to acquire DataStax to add vector data, Astra DB and Langflow capabilities to watsonx.

Perplexity announced a $50 million venture fund to invest in early-stage AI startups.

Anthropic introduced Claude Code as a terminal-based agentic coding tool in limited research preview.

Anthropic released Claude 3.7 Sonnet, its first hybrid reasoning model with standard and extended-thinking modes.

Scale entered a five-year partnership with Qatar’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology to deploy AI applications, analytics, automation, and workforce programs across government.

Hugging Face released SmolVLM2 at 256M, 500M, and 2.2B parameters with support for video understanding as well as images and text.

xAI unveiled Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini with reasoning modes, DeepSearch and Think capabilities trained on Colossus.

Microsoft Research and Xbox introduce Muse, a generative world and action model trained on gameplay sequences.

Perplexity released R1 1776, an open-weight post-trained version of DeepSeek-R1 intended to reduce censorship while retaining reasoning capability.

South Korea's privacy regulator suspended new downloads while reviewing personal-data protections.

Mistral AI released Mistral Saba, a 24B regional language model optimized for Arabic and languages of the Middle East and South Asia.

Perplexity launched Deep Research, an autonomous mode that performs many searches, evaluates sources and writes cited reports.

Valuation implied by the funding round "Harvey raises $300 million Series D".

Harvey raised $300 million at a $3 billion valuation in a Sequoia-led Series D.

Scale published MASK as part of its safety research program for testing whether models knowingly state beliefs inconsistent with their internal representations.

Scale released FORTRESS to evaluate frontier-model safeguards against dual-use national-security and public-safety risks.

Perplexity released a faster in-house Sonar model built on Llama 3.3 70B and served through Cerebras for Pro search.

Cohere and RBC began co-developing North for Banking for secure, regulated financial-services work.

Cohere introduced Compass as North's multimodal search and discovery backbone for governed enterprise data.

Cohere opened early access to North, an all-in-one secure AI workspace combining models, enterprise search and agents.

A consortium led by xAI submitted an unsolicited $97.4 billion offer for the nonprofit controlling OpenAI; the proposal was rejected and did not proceed.

Anthropic launched the Economic Index to measure how AI is being used across occupations and tasks.

Meta released PARTNR, a benchmark, dataset and planning model for human-robot collaboration on household tasks.

Mistral AI relaunched Le Chat with iOS and Android apps, Pro and Team plans, faster inference, image generation and an Enterprise preview.

Meta researchers introduced a non-invasive deep-learning system for decoding typed sentences from EEG and MEG brain recordings.

Google releases Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite in public preview as its lowest-cost Gemini 2.0 model.

Google releases an experimental Gemini 2.0 Pro for coding and complex prompts with a two-million-token context window.

Gemini 2.0 Flash becomes generally available through the Gemini API, Google AI Studio and Vertex AI.

Australia directed federal entities to remove and prevent DeepSeek products on government systems and devices.

CoreWeave became the first cloud provider to make rack-scale NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 instances generally available through its Kubernetes service.

xAI released the standalone Grok app for Android.

Anthropic published and tested Constitutional Classifiers, a safeguard approach designed to resist broad classes of jailbreaks.

OpenAI launched deep research, an agentic ChatGPT capability for multi-step web research and synthesis.

Moonshot released Moonlight, a 16B MoE model used to evaluate Muon optimization at scale.

xAI completed the second phase of Colossus 1, doubling the interconnected cluster to roughly 200,000 NVIDIA H100/H200 GPUs.

OpenAI released o3-mini, a cost-efficient reasoning model optimized for science, mathematics, and coding.

Valuation implied by the funding round "ElevenLabs raises $180 million Series C".

ElevenLabs raised $180 million at a $3.3 billion valuation.

Italy's data-protection authority ordered an immediate restriction on DeepSeek's processing of Italian users' personal data.

Mistral AI released Mistral Small 3, a 24B latency-optimized open-weight model.

Google rolls out Gemini 2.0 Flash as the default model in the Gemini app.