Releases

Genspark launched an agentic presentation generator that researches, structures, designs, and edits complete slide decks.

Physical Intelligence introduced π0.5, a vision-language-action model focused on open-world generalization and unseen environments.

xAI added conversational voice interaction to the standalone Grok experience.

Together launched a web-based fine-tuning platform with preference optimization, continued training, deployable checkpoints, and weight ownership.

Anthropic joined Palantir FedStart to accelerate deployment of Claude capabilities to U.S. government customers.

Meta released vision encoders for images and video designed to support recognition, localization and multimodal systems.

Google introduces Gemini 2.5 Flash with hybrid reasoning and controls over how much the model thinks.

IBM added the Granite 3.3 8B instruction model to watsonx.ai and open distribution channels.

IBM added the Granite 3.3 2B instruction model to watsonx.ai and open distribution channels.

Modal raised asynchronous function-call input capacity to one million items.

OpenAI released Codex CLI, an open-source coding agent that runs in the terminal.

OpenAI released o4-mini, a smaller reasoning model optimized for fast, cost-efficient reasoning.

OpenAI released o3, a reasoning model with strong performance across coding, mathematics, science, and visual tasks.

Adobe Ventures made a strategic investment in Synthesia as enterprise adoption of AI video accelerated.

Synthesia announced that annual recurring revenue had surpassed $100 million.

Cohere introduced Embed 4 for multimodal retrieval across text, images and complex enterprise documents in more than 100 languages.

xAI launched Grok Studio, a browser workspace for drafting documents, writing code and building projects with Grok.

Anthropic launched Research for multi-step cited investigation across the web and Google Workspace.

Hugging Face acquired Pollen Robotics, maker of Reachy robots, to accelerate its open-source robotics strategy and connect physical hardware with the LeRobot ecosystem.

OpenAI released GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano in the API with improved coding and instruction following.

SSI completed a $2 billion financing led by Greenoaks, with participation reported from Alphabet, NVIDIA and other investors.

Crusoe was identified as the builder of the first phase of the OpenAI-led Stargate AI data-center project in Abilene, Texas.

Databricks and Google Cloud expanded joint go-to-market and product integrations for Gemini models and enterprise AI.

Google introduces the open Agent2Agent protocol with more than 50 partners to enable interoperable agent collaboration.

Google Cloud releases the open-source Agent Development Kit for building and orchestrating multi-agent systems.