Releases

Perplexity released R1 1776, an open-weight post-trained version of DeepSeek-R1 intended to reduce censorship while retaining reasoning capability.

South Korea's privacy regulator suspended new downloads while reviewing personal-data protections.

Mistral AI released Mistral Saba, a 24B regional language model optimized for Arabic and languages of the Middle East and South Asia.

Perplexity launched Deep Research, an autonomous mode that performs many searches, evaluates sources and writes cited reports.

Harvey raised $300 million at a $3 billion valuation in a Sequoia-led Series D.

Scale published MASK as part of its safety research program for testing whether models knowingly state beliefs inconsistent with their internal representations.

Scale released FORTRESS to evaluate frontier-model safeguards against dual-use national-security and public-safety risks.

Perplexity released a faster in-house Sonar model built on Llama 3.3 70B and served through Cerebras for Pro search.

Cohere and RBC began co-developing North for Banking for secure, regulated financial-services work.

Cohere introduced Compass as North's multimodal search and discovery backbone for governed enterprise data.

Cohere opened early access to North, an all-in-one secure AI workspace combining models, enterprise search and agents.

A consortium led by xAI submitted an unsolicited $97.4 billion offer for the nonprofit controlling OpenAI; the proposal was rejected and did not proceed.

Anthropic launched the Economic Index to measure how AI is being used across occupations and tasks.

Meta released PARTNR, a benchmark, dataset and planning model for human-robot collaboration on household tasks.

Mistral AI relaunched Le Chat with iOS and Android apps, Pro and Team plans, faster inference, image generation and an Enterprise preview.

Meta researchers introduced a non-invasive deep-learning system for decoding typed sentences from EEG and MEG brain recordings.

Google releases Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite in public preview as its lowest-cost Gemini 2.0 model.

Google releases an experimental Gemini 2.0 Pro for coding and complex prompts with a two-million-token context window.

Gemini 2.0 Flash becomes generally available through the Gemini API, Google AI Studio and Vertex AI.

Australia directed federal entities to remove and prevent DeepSeek products on government systems and devices.

CoreWeave became the first cloud provider to make rack-scale NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 instances generally available through its Kubernetes service.

xAI released the standalone Grok app for Android.

Anthropic published and tested Constitutional Classifiers, a safeguard approach designed to resist broad classes of jailbreaks.

OpenAI launched deep research, an agentic ChatGPT capability for multi-step web research and synthesis.

Moonshot released Moonlight, a 16B MoE model used to evaluate Muon optimization at scale.