Releases

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

Cursor stated that the editor was used by millions of programmers; value records a conservative two-million lower bound.

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.

Secondary-source estimate of Runway's 2025 workforce.

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.