Releases

DeepSeek reportedly resumed a second round seeking close to $8B; it remained unclosed.

Perplexity launched builder-focused Computer workflows spanning coding, deployment, monitoring and business operations.

CoreWeave announced its first Asia-Pacific infrastructure expansion with new facilities in Indonesia.

Perplexity released Numbat, an open-source monitoring and response layer for AI coding agents.

Perplexity released Personal Computer for Windows with local files, background sessions and desktop workflows.

Mistral AI launched Shieldstral, a security and guardrail layer for AI applications and agents.

NVIDIA released Alpamayo 2 Super under an open commercial license for autonomous-vehicle development.

Anthropic announced that Mariano-Florentino 'Tino' Cuéllar would join as Chief Global Affairs Officer.

Palantir reported 93% year-over-year revenue growth and raised full-year guidance, highlighting continued AIP-led demand.

DeepSeek released the official Flash API in public beta with upgraded coding and agent performance.

Cohere signed the EU Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content.

SpaceXAI added text, image and voice references plus native 1080p support to Imagine Video 1.5.

Runway retired Gen-3 Alpha Turbo and first-generation Aleph API identifiers.

Runway released Aleph 2.0 for advanced video transformation and professional output workflows.

Scale’s board appointed former Google Cloud and Illumina executive Francis deSouza as chief executive officer, effective August 10, 2026.

Perplexity evolved Spaces into Projects with persistent files, memory, connectors and shared agent workspaces.

Amazon reported $200.6 billion in quarterly net sales, $27.5 billion in operating income, and AWS quarterly sales of $42.2 billion.

Moonshot closed a $3.5 billion financing round, valuing the company at $35 billion.

SpaceXAI released its second-generation real-time speech-to-speech model.

Meta reported $60.801 billion in quarterly revenue, $15.848 billion in net income and headcount of 75,472 as of June 30, 2026.

Perplexity brought Model Council into Computer for multi-model analysis and artifact generation.

Grok 4.5 became available to developers through GitHub Copilot.

SpaceXAI launched an early beta mode for creating websites, apps, games and interactive dashboards inside Grok.

Moonshot published the full Kimi K3 weights and implementation resources.

Cohere launched governed workflow orchestration in North with branching, approvals, schedules and model routing.

Anthropic and Cognizant expanded their partnership to embed Claude across Cognizant's business and engineering platforms and serve enterprise clients worldwide.

Midjourney retired the V8.0 alpha after V8.2 became available.

Midjourney launched its V8-era dedicated Edit Model.

Midjourney released V8.2 as the default model with improved aesthetics, image quality, personalization, and a new Edit Model.

SpaceXAI launched a Grok add-on for Google Sheets, Slides and Docs.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 with improvements in coding, long-running agents, professional work, and scientific reasoning.

Microsoft's legal and compliance organization expanded its collaboration with and use of Harvey.

Harvey launched ethical-wall enforcement through its Intapp integration.

Grok Build gained workflow orchestration for fanning tasks across many agents, verifying results and reporting in the background.

Cursor launched Router, a model-routing system that dynamically selects an appropriate coding model.

SpaceXAI expanded Grok 4.5 availability across grok.com, X, iOS and Android.

SpaceXAI launched a Microsoft Outlook add-in for thread summaries and drafting replies.

Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash with stronger reasoning and agentic performance at Flash-class latency.

Google DeepMind introduces Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber for defensive cybersecurity analysis and agentic workflows.

Google launches Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite for cost-efficient production workloads.

Shield AI and GE Aerospace completed engine and thrust-vectoring integration testing for X-BAT.

Cursor published research on the economics and scaling behavior of large coding-agent swarms.

Moonshot temporarily paused new Kimi subscriptions as demand for K3 strained available capacity.

SpaceXAI launched a Microsoft Excel add-in for natural-language analysis, formulas and scenarios.

A federal court granted final approval to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors over pirated copies of books held in its training library.

Reuters reported DeepSeek was planning a second fundraising round ahead of a potential mainland IPO. The target valuation is retained as metadata because the round was not completed.

Kimi K3 launched with native vision, agentic capabilities and a one-million-token context window.

Moonshot introduced Kimi K3, its 2.8T-parameter native multimodal frontier model family.

A Chinese stock-exchange filing disclosed an indirect 0.8265% stake and implied a RMB350.88B ($51.82B) company valuation.

Databricks signed a Coatue-led strategic-funding term sheet valuing the company at $188 billion, with proceeds targeted at Unity AI Gateway, Genie and Lakebase.