Releases

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

Baseten raised a $75 million Series C co-led by IVP and Spark Capital to expand mission-critical AI inference infrastructure.

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.

At launch, Thinking Machines Lab was reported to have approximately 30 employees, including a number of former OpenAI researchers and engineers.

Mira Murati publicly introduced Thinking Machines Lab and its mission to build AI systems that are more understandable, customizable and collaborative.

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

Abridge reported deployments at more than 100 U.S. health systems.

Abridge introduced a contextual reasoning architecture that combines conversations, historical patient context, documentation preferences and revenue-cycle requirements.

Abridge raised $250 million in a Series D co-led by Elad Gil and IVP to expand AI capabilities and commercial deployments.

Mistral AI reported one million Le Chat mobile app downloads; downloads are an adoption proxy, not unique active users.

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.

Glean launched a horizontal environment for building, deploying, orchestrating and governing enterprise agents.

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.