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.