Releases

DeepSeek reportedly resumed a second round seeking close to $8B; it remained unclosed.

Perplexity launched builder-focused Computer workflows spanning coding, deployment, monitoring and business operations.

CoreWeave announced its first Asia-Pacific infrastructure expansion with new facilities in Indonesia.

Perplexity released Numbat, an open-source monitoring and response layer for AI coding agents.

Perplexity released Personal Computer for Windows with local files, background sessions and desktop workflows.

Mistral AI launched Shieldstral, a security and guardrail layer for AI applications and agents.

NVIDIA released Alpamayo 2 Super under an open commercial license for autonomous-vehicle development.

Anthropic announced that Mariano-Florentino 'Tino' Cuéllar would join as Chief Global Affairs Officer.

Palantir reported 93% year-over-year revenue growth and raised full-year guidance, highlighting continued AIP-led demand.

DeepSeek released the official Flash API in public beta with upgraded coding and agent performance.

Cohere signed the EU Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content.

SpaceXAI added text, image and voice references plus native 1080p support to Imagine Video 1.5.

Runway retired Gen-3 Alpha Turbo and first-generation Aleph API identifiers.

Runway released Aleph 2.0 for advanced video transformation and professional output workflows.

Scale’s board appointed former Google Cloud and Illumina executive Francis deSouza as chief executive officer, effective August 10, 2026.

Perplexity evolved Spaces into Projects with persistent files, memory, connectors and shared agent workspaces.

Amazon reported $200.6 billion in quarterly net sales, $27.5 billion in operating income, and AWS quarterly sales of $42.2 billion.

Moonshot closed a $3.5 billion financing round, valuing the company at $35 billion.

SpaceXAI released its second-generation real-time speech-to-speech model.

Meta reported $60.801 billion in quarterly revenue, $15.848 billion in net income and headcount of 75,472 as of June 30, 2026.

Perplexity brought Model Council into Computer for multi-model analysis and artifact generation.

Grok 4.5 became available to developers through GitHub Copilot.

SpaceXAI launched an early beta mode for creating websites, apps, games and interactive dashboards inside Grok.

Moonshot published the full Kimi K3 weights and implementation resources.

Cohere launched governed workflow orchestration in North with branching, approvals, schedules and model routing.

Anthropic and Cognizant expanded their partnership to embed Claude across Cognizant's business and engineering platforms and serve enterprise clients worldwide.

Midjourney retired the V8.0 alpha after V8.2 became available.

Midjourney launched its V8-era dedicated Edit Model.

Midjourney released V8.2 as the default model with improved aesthetics, image quality, personalization, and a new Edit Model.

SpaceXAI launched a Grok add-on for Google Sheets, Slides and Docs.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 with improvements in coding, long-running agents, professional work, and scientific reasoning.

Microsoft's legal and compliance organization expanded its collaboration with and use of Harvey.

Harvey launched ethical-wall enforcement through its Intapp integration.

Grok Build gained workflow orchestration for fanning tasks across many agents, verifying results and reporting in the background.

Cursor launched Router, a model-routing system that dynamically selects an appropriate coding model.

SpaceXAI expanded Grok 4.5 availability across grok.com, X, iOS and Android.

SpaceXAI launched a Microsoft Outlook add-in for thread summaries and drafting replies.

Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash with stronger reasoning and agentic performance at Flash-class latency.

Google DeepMind introduces Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber for defensive cybersecurity analysis and agentic workflows.

Google launches Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite for cost-efficient production workloads.

Shield AI and GE Aerospace completed engine and thrust-vectoring integration testing for X-BAT.

Cursor published research on the economics and scaling behavior of large coding-agent swarms.

Moonshot temporarily paused new Kimi subscriptions as demand for K3 strained available capacity.

SpaceXAI launched a Microsoft Excel add-in for natural-language analysis, formulas and scenarios.

A federal court granted final approval to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors over pirated copies of books held in its training library.

Reuters reported DeepSeek was planning a second fundraising round ahead of a potential mainland IPO. The target valuation is retained as metadata because the round was not completed.

Kimi K3 launched with native vision, agentic capabilities and a one-million-token context window.

Moonshot introduced Kimi K3, its 2.8T-parameter native multimodal frontier model family.

A Chinese stock-exchange filing disclosed an indirect 0.8265% stake and implied a RMB350.88B ($51.82B) company valuation.

Databricks signed a Coatue-led strategic-funding term sheet valuing the company at $188 billion, with proceeds targeted at Unity AI Gateway, Genie and Lakebase.

SpaceXAI added scheduled and trigger-based automations that run jobs and report results.

SpaceXAI introduced Grok 4.5 as its strongest model for coding, agentic tasks and knowledge work, trained alongside Cursor.

Perplexity launched secure isolated sandboxes for agent code execution and tool use.

SpaceXAI open-sourced the Grok Build coding-agent harness and terminal user interface.

NVIDIA introduced an edge-optimized Cosmos 3 model for real-time physical AI systems.

Cohere Labs documented the Tiny Aya family and community applications for compact open multilingual AI.

Mistral AI Studio added centralized prompt and skills management for enterprise AI systems.

AWS made OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna generally available through Amazon Bedrock.

Meta launched an API for developers to access and build with Muse Spark 1.1.

Meta released Muse Spark 1.1 and made it available through Meta Model API.

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work, a workspace for longer, multi-step professional tasks powered by GPT-5.6.

OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna broadly across ChatGPT, Codex, and the API.

Mistral AI released Robostral Navigate, a vision-language-action model for robotic navigation.

SpaceXAI made Grok 4.5 available through the API for coding, agentic tasks and knowledge work.

OpenAI released GPT-Live-1 and GPT-Live-1 mini for low-latency, natively multimodal voice and realtime interaction.

Cohere released an open speech-recognition model tailored to Arabic languages and dialects.

Meta announced Muse Video, a generative video model with native audio support, as coming soon.

Meta released Muse Image for instruction-following image generation, precise editing and multi-reference composition.

SpaceX’s AI division formally adopted the SpaceXAI name and introduced a new combined brand identity, completing the transition from xAI.

SpaceXAI added 21 multilingual voices and improved the naturalness of its original voice set.

Mistral AI released Leanstral 1.5 with improved formal reasoning and theorem-proving capabilities.

SpaceXAI launched a no-code builder for creating personalized voice agents.

Anthropic restored global access to Fable 5 and resumed restricted access to Mythos 5 after the relevant export controls were lifted.

ElevenLabs introduced Procedures for structured, governed agent execution.

Apollo Go began London road tests through mobility-platform partnerships.

Apollo Go launched fully driverless commercial operations in Dubai, including availability through Uber.

Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 as an upgrade to Sonnet 4.6 for agentic work, coding, and professional tasks.

Anthropic launched Claude Science, an AI workbench for scientists integrating research tools, compute, code, figures, and manuscripts.

Palantir launched an engine for deploying NVIDIA Nemotron open models in sovereign environments.

CoreWeave made W&B Weave’s agent-development capabilities generally available alongside the ARIA preview.

CoreWeave launched ARIA in preview as an AI research and iteration agent inside Weights & Biases that analyzes experiments and drives follow-on runs.

Meta released training code for Brain2Qwerty v1 and v2; v2 performs real-time non-invasive sentence decoding from brain recordings.

HF Jobs added exposed-port workflows for running private services such as OpenAI-compatible vLLM servers directly on Hugging Face compute.

OpenAI began a limited preview of GPT-5.6 Sol and previewed the Terra and Luna variants.

Suno launched Spark to support independent artists and music projects.

Baidu moved ERNIE web services to an upgraded site with chat, creation and web-search capabilities.

Modal documented state-of-the-art speculative decoding performance in Auto Endpoints.

Perplexity launched legal research, analysis and drafting workflows for counsel.

Mistral AI added centralized enterprise controls for connectors, access and governance.

Modal introduced dedicated single-tenant endpoints for production model serving.

Modal introduced shared managed endpoints as part of its inference product line.

Modal introduced long-running high-performance server deployments.

Modal introduced automatically optimized and managed model endpoints.

Mistral AI released Mistral OCR 4, its fourth-generation document-understanding model.

Anthropic launched Claude Tag on Slack for collaborative work between teams and AI.

ElevenLabs launched Ads Engine in ElevenCreative.

CoreWeave reported record MLPerf Training v6.0 results, including training DeepSeek-V3 in approximately two minutes on a large NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 cluster.

SpaceXAI added /goal for long-running autonomous task execution in Grok Build.

Perplexity introduced self-improving memory for agents and persistent Computer workspaces.

SpaceXAI made Grok models available through Databricks Agent Bricks for enterprise agent development.