Releases

Anthropic acquired Stainless, an SDK and MCP server tooling company that had powered generation of Anthropic's official SDKs.

Scale marked its tenth anniversary, reporting more than 700 customers served, 15 billion human decisions applied to model development, work across 150 languages and locales, and over $1 billion paid to contributors.

Perplexity added data analysis, coding and visualization workflows for business teams to Computer.

CoreWeave launched secure isolated sandboxes for reinforcement learning, agent tool use, and model evaluation at scale.

Perplexity published details of the security architecture and safeguards built into Computer.

Artificial Analysis data placed CoreWeave first for Kimi K2.6 inference throughput and price-performance among evaluated providers.

Baidu released a more compact flagship model with stronger agents, reasoning and creative abilities.

Scale completed SWE Atlas by adding Test Writing and Refactoring alongside Codebase QnA, producing a 284-task software-engineering evaluation suite.

Perplexity broadened Personal Computer availability to all users on Mac.

The U.S. defense department increased the potential ceiling of its Scale production agreement from $100 million to $500 million following rapid adoption across military components.

Perplexity added structured financial search and retrieval to the Agent API.

SpaceXAI added deep app connectors to Grok, followed by persistent Skills for documents, decks, spreadsheets and workflows.

SpaceXAI agreed to provide Anthropic access to Colossus 1, with both companies also expressing interest in multi-gigawatt orbital AI compute.

The former xAI operation ceased functioning as a separate company and was folded into SpaceX as its AI division, using the SpaceXAI identity.

Anthropic agreed to use all compute capacity at SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center, adding more than 300 megawatts and over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs.

Harvey launched more than 500 ready-to-use legal agents across major practice areas.

ElevenLabs reported surpassing $500 million in annual recurring revenue during the first four months of 2026.

IBM announced an agentic control plane for deploying and governing agents from multiple sources.

Perplexity launched specialized professional-finance workflows in Computer.

Perplexity added premium clinical and health-information sources to its health experience.

Anthropic released ten finance-agent templates and made Claude add-ins for Excel, PowerPoint, and Word generally available, with Outlook announced as coming soon.

Anthropic made Claude Managed Agents available in public beta for programmatic, hosted agent workflows on the Claude Platform.

Perplexity launched Computer inside Microsoft Teams.

Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs announced a new AI services company focused on deploying Claude at mid-sized enterprises.

Scale signed a memorandum of understanding with the U.S. Department of Energy to explore AI-ready scientific data infrastructure, evaluations, and model applications for the Genesis Mission.

Anthropic disclosed that annualized run-rate revenue had crossed $47 billion earlier in May 2026.

Cursor described its continuously improving agent harness and the feedback loops used to develop coding agents.

CoreWeave added guided self-service and SUNK Anywhere so research teams could deploy production-grade Slurm-on-Kubernetes training on CoreWeave and other clouds.

CoreWeave launched private cross-cloud networking alongside SUNK Anywhere and LOTA Cross-Cloud to simplify distributed AI workloads.

LOTA Cross-Cloud extended CoreWeave’s local object-transport acceleration to data held outside CoreWeave regions.

Perplexity expanded Computer with connected workplace applications and enterprise workflows.

SpaceXAI launched voice cloning from short recordings for text-to-speech and voice-agent APIs.

ElevenLabs launched ElevenMusic as a dedicated music-creation application.

IBM published the 8B base and instruct Granite 4.1 models.

IBM published the 30B base and instruct Granite 4.1 models.

IBM published the 3B base and instruct Granite 4.1 models.

IBM released Granite 4.1 language, vision, speech, embedding and Guardian models under Apache 2.0.

AWS expanded Quick with a desktop application, Free and Plus plans, visual-asset generation and new integrations.

AWS announced a managed OpenAI-powered agent runtime integrated with Bedrock and AWS controls.

AWS and OpenAI expanded their partnership to offer OpenAI frontier models through Amazon Bedrock in limited preview.

NVIDIA released an open multimodal model unifying vision, audio and language for efficient agents.

Palantir renamed AIP Agent Studio to AIP Chatbot Studio and continued expanding governed agent-building capabilities.

Mistral AI opened Workflows in public preview, enabling visual composition of enterprise AI agents and automations.

Meta agreed to deploy tens of millions of AWS Graviton cores for CPU-intensive agentic AI workloads.

OpenAI and Microsoft announce the next phase of their partnership with amended commercial terms.

OpenAI and Microsoft announced the next phase of their partnership with amended commercial terms.

OpenAI discontinued the standalone Sora product as its video strategy shifted to newer experiences and models.

The efficient V4 Flash preview became available through DeepSeek's API.

DeepSeek introduced the V4 family through Pro and Flash preview API models.

The V4 Pro preview became available through OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible interfaces.