Releases

Perplexity introduced managed Comet browser access for Enterprise Pro customers.

Meta released DINOv3, a scaled self-supervised vision foundation model for high-quality visual features.

Co-founder Igor Babuschkin left xAI to launch an investment firm focused on AI safety research.

Perplexity submitted a nonbinding $34.5 billion offer to acquire Google's Chrome browser; Google had not offered Chrome for sale.

Mistral AI updated its enterprise model tier with Mistral Medium 3.1.

NVIDIA expanded its robotics stack with updated GR00T and Cosmos models and new Omniverse libraries.

Perplexity added OpenAI's GPT-OSS models immediately upon their release.

Midjourney introduced higher-definition output for its video model.

OpenAI released GPT-5 across ChatGPT and the API, including mini, nano, and Pro variants.

Cohere launched North broadly as its secure, customizable agentic AI platform for enterprises and governments.

ElevenLabs released its first generative music model.

AWS added OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b to Amazon Bedrock and SageMaker AI.

Google DeepMind introduces Genie 3, a general-purpose world model that generates interactive environments in real time.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.1 with improvements to agentic tasks, coding, and reasoning.

OpenAI released gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b under an open-weight license.

Perplexity integrated OpenTable so users could find and book restaurant reservations from answers.

Runway released Aleph for generative video transformation and editing.

Harvey expanded Review Tables for structured extraction and comparative document analysis.

IBM expanded Granite with open speech-recognition models for enterprise transcription.

Baidu Wenku and Baidu Drive launched a multi-agent productivity platform.

Google releases Deep Think, a parallel-thinking mode based on Gemini 2.5, to Gemini Ultra subscribers.

Palantir and the U.S. Army consolidated contracts into an enterprise agreement with a ceiling of up to $10 billion over ten years.

CoreWeave closed a $2.6 billion secured delayed-draw term loan to finance infrastructure supporting its OpenAI agreement.

Cohere released its first commercial multimodal Command model for enterprise document, chart, OCR and scene understanding.

Midjourney launched an experimental personalized media feed and streaming experience.

The launch of HF Jobs established an on-demand compute layer alongside the Hub’s storage, collaboration, and inference products.

Hugging Face launched pay-per-use compute jobs that run scripts and containers on CPUs and GPUs directly through the hf CLI.

Gannett joined Perplexity's publisher program, broadening licensed news participation.

Mistral AI released Codestral 25.08 and expanded its enterprise coding stack across Mistral Code and developer tools.

Mark Zuckerberg outlined Meta's strategy to build personal superintelligence and distribute it through consumer products.

Cohere and Bell partnered to deploy sovereign enterprise AI for telecommunications workloads in Canada.

Midjourney added looping, end-frame control, and video generation through the Discord bot.

Oracle added xAI's Grok 4 model to OCI Generative AI.

GitHub opens Spark to public preview for building and deploying full-stack applications from natural-language prompts.

Oracle committed to operate and expand large-scale AI infrastructure for OpenAI's Stargate program.

OpenAI and Oracle agreed to develop 4.5 gigawatts of additional U.S. Stargate data-center capacity.

Runway released Act-Two for advanced motion capture and performance transfer.

Perplexity raised approximately $100 million at an $18 billion valuation.

Le Chat added Deep Research, multilingual reasoning, image editing, projects and expanded voice capabilities.

OpenAI launched ChatGPT agent, combining web interaction, research, and execution capabilities in a unified agent.

Scale reduced approximately 200 employee roles and contractor assignments after determining it had expanded its generative-AI capacity too quickly, while prioritizing enterprise, government, and international growth.

AWS introduced managed runtime, memory, identity, gateway, observability, browser and code-execution services for AI agents.

Mistral AI released Voxtral Small and Voxtral Mini, open speech-understanding models for transcription and audio reasoning.

Anthropic launched an integrated financial-analysis solution with data connectors, Claude Code, and enterprise deployment support.

xAI launched its government suite and announced a U.S. Department of Defense agreement with a $200 million ceiling, plus availability through the GSA schedule.

xAI added animated AI companions to the Grok mobile experience.

AWS introduced an agentic AI development environment centered on specifications and automated hooks.

Meta announced Hyperion, a Louisiana AI data-center campus planned to scale to five gigawatts of compute capacity.

Moonshot published the post-trained Kimi K2 Instruct checkpoint for agentic and coding tasks.

Moonshot published the base pretrained Kimi K2 checkpoint.

Moonshot introduced Kimi K2, a one-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 32B active parameters.

Mistral AI expanded the Devstral family with Devstral Small 1.1 and a larger Devstral Medium model.

Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics launched Reachy Mini, a compact open-source desktop robot aimed at developers, researchers, and educators.

Perplexity launched Comet, an AI-native browser with an embedded assistant, initially for Max subscribers and waitlisted users.

xAI removed inappropriate Grok posts containing antisemitic tropes and praise for Hitler, tightened hate-speech controls and later explained that a system update had made the bot too susceptible to extremist user content.

xAI launched Grok 4 with native tool use and real-time search, plus the higher-compute Grok 4 Heavy multi-agent variant.

Microsoft releases Phi-4 Mini Flash Reasoning for fast reasoning on edge, mobile and real-time systems.

Hugging Face released a fully open 3B multilingual model with 128K context, switchable reasoning, tool use, and a disclosed training recipe.

CoreWeave announced an all-stock agreement to acquire Core Scientific and increase direct ownership of power and HPC data-center infrastructure.

Mistral AI introduced AI for Citizens, a sovereign AI offering for governments and public-sector institutions.

Palantir launched Warp Speed for Warships to apply industrial AI and manufacturing software to U.S. shipbuilding.

Perplexity launched Max, a premium subscription tier with expanded access to frontier models and new products.

Baidu introduced enterprise AI agents designed as role-specific digital workers.

Morgan Stanley arranged $5 billion of debt financing and xAI separately raised $5 billion in strategic equity to fund AI infrastructure and product development.

Suno acquired WavTool to add advanced digital-audio-workstation technology.

Baidu open-sourced ten ERNIE 4.5 variants spanning dense and mixture-of-experts text and vision-language models.

Meta consolidated its frontier AI efforts into Meta Superintelligence Labs, led by Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang with Nat Friedman overseeing AI products and applied research.

Google releases Gemma 3n weights and tools for efficient multimodal AI on edge devices.

ElevenLabs released Voice Design v3 for creating voices from natural-language descriptions.

Oracle and xAI made Grok 3 and Grok 3 Mini available through OCI Generative AI.

Google DeepMind introduces AlphaGenome to predict regulatory effects of DNA sequence variants at high resolution.

Harvey made its customizable Workflow Builder available to all customers; the product later became Agent Builder.

Google DeepMind introduces an on-device vision-language-action model that runs locally on robots.

Harvey raised $300 million at a $5 billion valuation.

Google transfers the A2A protocol project to the Linux Foundation to support neutral, industry-wide governance.

Mistral AI released Mistral Small 3.2 with improved instruction following, function calling and reduced repetition.

Meta and EssilorLuxottica introduced performance-focused Oakley Meta HSTN AI glasses.

Harvey and LexisNexis partnered to integrate primary law, Protégé, and Shepard's citations and co-develop legal workflows.

Midjourney released its first image-to-video model to the full community.

Databricks introduced managed Model Context Protocol servers for Unity Catalog functions, Genie spaces and AI Search indexes.

Google introduces Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite as a high-throughput, low-cost model in preview.

Google makes Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash generally available for developers and enterprises.

Cursor introduced the $200-per-month Ultra tier for power users with substantially higher usage.

Moonshot released a 72B software-engineering model optimized using reinforcement learning.

Runway released an MCP server for connecting compatible AI agents to generation tools.

Databricks introduced a simplified business-user front door to Genie spaces, dashboards and apps.

AI/BI Genie became generally available across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, alongside a new knowledge store and planned Deep Research mode.

Meta made a $14.3 billion strategic investment for a 49% non-voting minority stake in Scale AI, valuing the independent company at over $29 billion and expanding the commercial partnership.

Founder and CEO Alexandr Wang left day-to-day management to join Meta’s AI efforts while remaining a Scale director; Chief Strategy Officer Jason Droege became interim CEO.

Perplexity closed a $500 million financing led by Accel at a $14 billion valuation.

Meta made a $14.3 billion non-voting minority investment in Scale AI and expanded the companies' commercial relationship; Scale was valued above $29 billion.

Disney and Universal filed copyright litigation challenging Midjourney's model training and outputs.

Databricks and Microsoft expanded integration across Azure Databricks, Microsoft 365 and governed enterprise agents.

Databricks released MLflow 3 with unified tracking, evaluation, observability and governance for models and agents.

Databricks introduced Agent Bricks, which generates task-specific data and benchmarks to optimize agents for enterprise use cases.

Databricks introduced Lakebase, a serverless Postgres category designed for operational data and AI agents.

Hugging Face and NVIDIA introduced a managed service for research organizations to access large GPU clusters for foundation-model training.

Perplexity partnered with European model providers to bring additional European AI models to global users.

Mistral AI announced Mistral Compute, a sovereign European AI cloud developed with NVIDIA infrastructure and European partners.

Meta released V-JEPA 2 for video understanding, physical-world prediction and zero-shot robot planning.