Releases

The U.S. defense department awarded Scale a five-year production agreement with an initial $100 million ceiling for data operations, computer vision, GenAI, and Donovan capabilities.

Hugging Face discontinued HUGS model-deployment containers and directed users toward enterprise collections and other deployment paths.

Oracle had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $635.2 billion as of Aug 31, 2025 (NYSE: ORCL), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Anthropic disclosed that annualized revenue had exceeded $5 billion by August 2025.

Oracle opened beta access to Google Vertex AI through OCI Generative AI.

Cohere released its first dedicated machine-translation model, supporting 23 languages and private deployments.

xAI released a speedy and economical reasoning model optimized for agentic coding.

Microsoft AI releases MAI-Voice-1, its first in-house expressive speech-generation model, through Copilot experiences.

Microsoft AI begins public testing of MAI-1 Preview, its first end-to-end internally trained foundation model.

NVIDIA reported Q2 fiscal 2026 revenue of $46.7 billion, up 56% year-over-year and 6% sequentially. Data Center revenue reached $41.1 billion. Net income was $26.4 billion (GAAP). NVIDIA approved an additional $60 billion share repurchase authorization.

Perplexity introduced Comet Plus, a subscription program designed to fund participating publishers and premium content.

xAI and X filed a U.S. federal antitrust suit alleging that Apple and OpenAI conspired to disadvantage rival generative-AI products and Grok in App Store distribution.

NVIDIA began availability of its Blackwell-powered Jetson Thor robotics computer.

xAI released the trained Grok-2 checkpoint for community use under the Grok 2 Community License.

DeepSeek released a hybrid thinking model with improved reasoning efficiency and agent capabilities.

Cohere launched a controllable hybrid reasoning model for complex enterprise agents across 23 languages.

xAI published the Grok 4 model card covering evaluations, safeguards, abuse potential and dual-use capabilities.

xAI released the Collections API for file upload, embeddings and retrieval-augmented inference.

Cohere announced former Uber executive Francois Chadwick as chief financial officer alongside its funding round.

Radical Ventures and Inovia Capital co-led a $500 million financing with AMD, NVIDIA, PSP, Salesforce Ventures and HOOPP participating.

Perplexity introduced managed Comet browser access for Enterprise Pro customers.

Meta released DINOv3, a scaled self-supervised vision foundation model for high-quality visual features.

Co-founder Igor Babuschkin left xAI to launch an investment firm focused on AI safety research.

Perplexity submitted a nonbinding $34.5 billion offer to acquire Google's Chrome browser; Google had not offered Chrome for sale.

Mistral AI updated its enterprise model tier with Mistral Medium 3.1.

NVIDIA expanded its robotics stack with updated GR00T and Cosmos models and new Omniverse libraries.

Perplexity added OpenAI's GPT-OSS models immediately upon their release.

Midjourney introduced higher-definition output for its video model.

OpenAI released GPT-5 across ChatGPT and the API, including mini, nano, and Pro variants.

Cohere launched North broadly as its secure, customizable agentic AI platform for enterprises and governments.

ElevenLabs released its first generative music model.

AWS added OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b to Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker AI.

Google DeepMind introduces Genie 3, a general-purpose world model that generates interactive environments in real time.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.1 with improvements to agentic tasks, coding, and reasoning.

OpenAI released gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b under an open-weight license.

Perplexity integrated OpenTable so users could find and book restaurant reservations from answers.

Runway released Aleph for generative video transformation and editing.

Harvey expanded Review Tables for structured extraction and comparative document analysis.

IBM expanded Granite with open speech-recognition models for enterprise transcription.

Baidu Wenku and Baidu Drive launched a multi-agent productivity platform.

Google releases Deep Think, a parallel-thinking mode based on Gemini 2.5, to Gemini Ultra subscribers.

Palantir and the U.S. Army consolidated contracts into an enterprise agreement with a ceiling of up to $10 billion over ten years.

CoreWeave closed a $2.6 billion secured delayed-draw term loan to finance infrastructure supporting its OpenAI agreement.

Cohere released its first commercial multimodal Command model for enterprise document, chart, OCR and scene understanding.

Midjourney launched an experimental personalized media feed and streaming experience.

The launch of HF Jobs established an on-demand compute layer alongside the Hub’s storage, collaboration, and inference products.

Hugging Face launched pay-per-use compute jobs that run scripts and containers on CPUs and GPUs directly through the hf CLI.

Gannett joined Perplexity's publisher program, broadening licensed news participation.

Mistral AI released Codestral 25.08 and expanded its enterprise coding stack across Mistral Code and developer tools.

Mark Zuckerberg outlined Meta's strategy to build personal superintelligence and distribute it through consumer products.