Releases

Perplexity announced a $50 million venture fund to invest in early-stage AI startups.

Anthropic introduced Claude Code as a terminal-based agentic coding tool in limited research preview.

Anthropic released Claude 3.7 Sonnet, its first hybrid reasoning model with standard and extended-thinking modes.

Scale entered a five-year partnership with Qatar’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology to deploy AI applications, analytics, automation, and workforce programs across government.

Hugging Face released SmolVLM2 at 256M, 500M, and 2.2B parameters with support for video understanding as well as images and text.

xAI unveiled Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini with reasoning modes, DeepSearch and Think capabilities trained on Colossus.

Microsoft Research and Xbox introduce Muse, a generative world and action model trained on gameplay sequences.

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.

xAI completed the second phase of Colossus 1, doubling the interconnected cluster to roughly 200,000 NVIDIA H100/H200 GPUs.

OpenAI released o3-mini, a cost-efficient reasoning model optimized for science, mathematics, and coding.

ElevenLabs raised $180 million at a $3.3 billion valuation.

Italy's data-protection authority ordered an immediate restriction on DeepSeek's processing of Italian users' personal data.

Mistral AI released Mistral Small 3, a 24B latency-optimized open-weight model.

Google rolls out Gemini 2.0 Flash as the default model in the Gemini app.

CoreWeave detailed Mission Control capabilities for infrastructure validation, proactive node replacement, fleet health, and AI cluster observability.

Perplexity introduced Sonar Reasoning and Sonar Reasoning Pro for search-grounded analytical queries.

Hugging Face launched a unified inference layer that lets developers call models across multiple providers through one API and billing experience.

IBM launched an AI-powered delivery platform for consultants and client transformation work.

DeepSeek released scaled 1B and 7B Janus-Pro checkpoints with improved understanding and image generation.

DeepSeek's assistant reached number one among free iPhone applications in the United States as adoption surged.

DeepSeek temporarily limited new registrations following a large-scale malicious cyberattack.

NVIDIA had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $3.493 trillion as of Jan 26, 2025 (NASDAQ: NVDA), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Hugging Face launched Open R1 to openly reproduce and extend the data, training, and evaluation pipeline behind reasoning models.

Scale and the Center for AI Safety published Humanity’s Last Exam, assembled from nearly 1,000 contributors across more than 500 institutions in 50 countries.

Hugging Face released a 500M vision-language model for low-memory multimodal inference.

Hugging Face released a 256M vision-language model small enough for highly constrained devices while supporting image-and-text tasks.

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.