Releases

Perplexity launched an Android assistant able to answer questions and perform actions across supported apps.

OpenAI launched Operator, a browser-using agent capable of interacting with web interfaces.

Databricks completed $10 billion in equity financing and arranged $5.25 billion in debt facilities at a $62 billion equity valuation.

Google makes an additional $1 billion investment in Anthropic, extending its financial and cloud partnership with the AI developer.

Google reportedly made an additional $1 billion investment in Anthropic, deepening its existing investment and cloud relationship.

Modal made isolated programmable Sandboxes generally available for agent-generated code.

Modal launched dedicated infrastructure for secure code-interpreting and agent workloads.

Perplexity launched Sonar and made Sonar Pro generally available through its API platform for cited real-time answers.

Microsoft and OpenAI update their partnership structure while preserving Microsoft rights to OpenAI intellectual property and Azure API exclusivity.

OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle, and MGX announced Stargate, a new company intended to invest $500 billion in US AI infrastructure over four years.

Moonshot released Kimi k1.5, a multimodal reasoning model trained with reinforcement learning.

Moonshot introduced its open k-series reasoning work through the Kimi k1.5 release.

DeepSeek released the Llama 70B-based distilled R1 reasoning checkpoint.

DeepSeek released the Llama 8B-based distilled R1 reasoning checkpoint.

DeepSeek released the Qwen 14B-based distilled R1 reasoning checkpoint.

DeepSeek released the Qwen 1.5B-based distilled R1 reasoning checkpoint.

DeepSeek released the Qwen 7B-based distilled R1 reasoning checkpoint.

DeepSeek released the Qwen 32B-based distilled R1 reasoning checkpoint.

DeepSeek published R1 under the MIT License and made it available on web and API.

DeepSeek published its pure reinforcement-learning reasoning checkpoint.

DeepSeek introduced its reinforcement-learning reasoning model family and technical report.

Cursor disclosed that annual recurring revenue had surpassed $100 million.

Cursor raised $105 million in Series B funding from Thrive Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Benchmark, and existing investors at a reported $2.6 billion post-money valuation.

Text Generation Inference added a multi-backend architecture supporting vLLM and TensorRT-LLM alongside its native backend.

Microsoft Research publishes MatterGen, a generative model that designs stable inorganic materials conditioned on target properties.

Scale added richer model comparison, failure analysis, cross-sectional reporting, and automated error-discovery capabilities to its frontier evaluation framework.

Microsoft launches Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat with web-grounded AI chat, work-data access and support for agents.

Cursor released Fusion, improving edit prediction, cursor jumps, context length, and latency in Cursor Tab.

Mistral AI released an updated Codestral model with improved code generation and a 256K context window.

Microsoft forms CoreAI – Platform and Tools under Jay Parikh, combining developer, AI platform, supercomputing and agent-runtime teams.

DeepSeek released its consumer assistant for iOS and Android.

xAI launched the standalone Grok app in beta on Apple’s App Store, extending Grok beyond X.

NVIDIA launched Cosmos with open world foundation models, tokenizers, guardrails and data-processing tools for physical AI.

Microsoft says it is on track to invest approximately $80 billion during fiscal 2025 in AI-enabled datacenters for training models and deploying AI applications.

Moonshot described k1 as a long-context reinforcement-learning reasoning system.

Meta's first TRIBE brain-response model formed the foundation for its award-winning Algonauts 2025 entry; Meta's later TRIBE v2 announcement identifies the original model as 2025 work.

Baidu had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $29.6 billion as of Dec 31, 2024 (NASDAQ: BIDU), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

IBM had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $203.3 billion as of Dec 31, 2024 (NYSE: IBM), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Palantir had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $172.3 billion as of Dec 31, 2024 (NASDAQ: PLTR), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Meta had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $1.478 trillion as of Dec 31, 2024 (NASDAQ: META), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Amazon had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $2.307 trillion as of Dec 31, 2024 (NASDAQ: AMZN), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Alphabet had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $2.324 trillion as of Dec 31, 2024 (NASDAQ: GOOGL), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Microsoft had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $3.134 trillion as of Dec 31, 2024 (NASDAQ: MSFT), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

By year-end 2024, CoreWeave operated more than 360 megawatts of active power and held about 1.3 gigawatts of contracted capacity.

Hugging Face released smolagents, a lightweight open-source framework for tool-using and code-executing AI agents.

NVIDIA market capitalisation at end of calendar year 2024, up 169% year-over-year, briefly surpassing Apple and Microsoft to become the world's most valuable public company.

DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V3 weights and upgraded the deepseek-chat API.

DeepSeek introduced its 671B-parameter V3 mixture-of-experts architecture.

xAI closed a $6 billion Series C backed by major institutional and sovereign investors; regulatory reporting indicated an approximately $45 billion post-money valuation.

Answer.AI and Hugging Face released ModernBERT, a modernized encoder-only model family for retrieval and classification workloads.