Releases

Suno released v5.5 with more expressive generation and new personalization capabilities.

Shield AI announced an agreement to acquire simulation-software company Aechelon Technology.

Shield AI announced $1.5 billion in Series G equity and $500 million in preferred financing at a $12.7 billion post-money valuation.

Cohere entered speech recognition with the open Transcribe model family.

Cohere introduced an open-source speech-recognition model for accurate multilingual transcription.

Perplexity and Samsung expanded AI browsing and assistant experiences across Samsung devices.

Meta released a tri-modal foundation model that predicts high-resolution human brain activity from video, audio and language.

Valuation implied by the funding round "Harvey raises $200 million at $11 billion valuation".

Harvey raised $200 million at an $11 billion valuation, co-led by GIC and Sequoia.

Harvey introduced enterprise governance controls for secure AI adoption and administration.

Oracle added private agent creation, lakehouse vectors and secure agent connectivity across its AI Database portfolio.

Oracle introduced an MCP server for secure agent access to Autonomous AI Database.

Oracle added native vector indexing and search over Apache Iceberg tables.

Oracle introduced a no-code system for building private agents in cloud or on-premises environments.

Oracle introduced a developer-focused vector database built on Autonomous AI Database.

Databricks announced Lakewatch, an agentic SIEM for detection, investigation and response on a security lakehouse.

Scale Labs updated MultiChallenge with a stronger judge model, refined tasks, and refreshed results to improve agreement with expert ratings.

Mistral AI released Voxtral TTS, a 4B multilingual text-to-speech model.

AWS released developer tooling for building customized Nova-based frontier models.

Perplexity launched a health information and research experience using premium medical sources.

Perplexity formed a Health Advisory Board to guide safety, quality and product development for health information.

Harvey launched an integration for analyzing Box-hosted legal documents.

Perplexity launched Comet for iOS, bringing its AI-native browser to all major consumer platforms.

Midjourney released an early-access alpha of its V8 image model.

Perplexity launched Comet Enterprise with managed deployment, policy controls, audit logs and security integrations.