Releases

IBM published the 3B base and instruct Granite 4.1 models.

IBM released Granite 4.1 language, vision, speech, embedding and Guardian models under Apache 2.0.

AWS expanded Quick with a desktop application, Free and Plus plans, visual-asset generation and new integrations.

AWS announced a managed OpenAI-powered agent runtime integrated with Bedrock and AWS controls.

AWS and OpenAI expanded their partnership to offer OpenAI frontier models through Amazon Bedrock in limited preview.

NVIDIA released an open multimodal model unifying vision, audio and language for efficient agents.

Palantir renamed AIP Agent Studio to AIP Chatbot Studio and continued expanding governed agent-building capabilities.

Mistral AI opened Workflows in public preview, enabling visual composition of enterprise AI agents and automations.

Meta agreed to deploy tens of millions of AWS Graviton cores for CPU-intensive agentic AI workloads.

OpenAI and Microsoft announce the next phase of their partnership with amended commercial terms.

OpenAI and Microsoft announced the next phase of their partnership with amended commercial terms.

NVIDIA had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $5.060 trillion as of Apr 26, 2026 (NASDAQ: NVDA), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

OpenAI discontinued the standalone Sora product as its video strategy shifted to newer experiences and models.

The efficient V4 Flash preview became available through DeepSeek's API.

DeepSeek introduced the V4 family through Pro and Flash preview API models.

The V4 Pro preview became available through OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible interfaces.

Cohere and Aleph Alpha announced plans to combine into a transatlantic sovereign-AI company operating as Cohere; completion remained subject to approvals.

SpaceXAI released its first named Think Fast speech-to-speech voice-agent model.

OpenAI released GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro as upgraded frontier models for complex knowledge work and reasoning.

Perplexity published its approach to building and evaluating accuracy in frontier AI systems.

Google Cloud announces that future Vertex AI services and roadmap evolution will be delivered through Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.

Google Cloud launches Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform as the evolution of Vertex AI for building, scaling and governing AI agents.

Anthropic committed more than $100 billion to AWS over ten years for up to five gigawatts of Trainium capacity; Amazon committed $5 billion immediately and up to $20 billion more.

OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.0 with stronger world knowledge, instruction following, detail, and an images-with-thinking mode.

Kimi added agentic presentation and slide creation capabilities.