Releases

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.

CoreWeave had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $83.1 billion as of Jun 30, 2025 (NASDAQ: CRWV), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Baidu had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $29.5 billion as of Jun 30, 2025 (NASDAQ: BIDU), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

IBM had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $274.0 billion as of Jun 30, 2025 (NYSE: IBM), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Palantir had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $321.7 billion as of Jun 30, 2025 (NASDAQ: PLTR), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Meta had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $1.856 trillion as of Jun 30, 2025 (NASDAQ: META), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Amazon had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $2.329 trillion as of Jun 30, 2025 (NASDAQ: AMZN), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Alphabet had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $2.145 trillion as of Jun 30, 2025 (NASDAQ: GOOGL), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Microsoft had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $3.697 trillion as of Jun 30, 2025 (NASDAQ: MSFT), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

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.

NVIDIA expanded DGX Cloud Lepton with European cloud providers, AWS and Azure participation, and Hugging Face training integration.

Replit launched import workflows for turning designs into applications.

Perplexity published work on accelerating Sonar inference through speculative decoding.

Mistral AI released Magistral Small and Magistral Medium, its first reasoning-focused model family.

OpenAI released o3-pro for more reliable reasoning by using additional compute.

Cohere announced work with the UK government to support secure AI adoption and public-sector productivity.

Cohere and the Government of Canada agreed to explore secure generative AI for public-sector operations.

Cursor disclosed more than $500 million in annual recurring revenue and adoption by over half of the Fortune 500.

Cursor raised $900 million at a $9.9 billion valuation from Thrive, Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, and DST.

xAI released a Management API for programmatic API-key administration.

Anthropic expanded access and deployment support for approved US national-security customers.

Perplexity expanded Finance with richer market data and research tools for investors.

Cursor 1.0 introduced one-click MCP server installation and tool connectivity.

Cursor introduced Memories in beta so the editor could retain useful project context and conventions.

Cursor launched BugBot for automated pull-request review and defect detection.

Cursor 1.0 introduced BugBot, general availability of Background Agent, Memories beta, one-click MCP installation, and Jupyter support.

The companies submitted the largest NVIDIA Blackwell MLPerf Training v5.0 cluster and reported record Llama 3.1 405B training performance.

Mistral AI launched Mistral Code, an enterprise coding-assistant platform with IDE integration and deployment controls.

Suno launched extraction of up to twelve vocal and instrumental stems.

Suno launched a waveform-based interface for restructuring and editing songs.

ElevenLabs released Eleven v3 in alpha with richer emotional expression and dialogue control.

Former Meta FAIR head Joelle Pineau joined Cohere as Chief AI Officer to lead research and model development.

Hugging Face released SmolVLA, a 450M vision-language-action model trained for affordable, open robotic manipulation.

Modal introduced interactive notebooks backed by elastic cloud compute.

Modal added snapshots to accelerate reproducible sandbox and agent environments.

Moonshot published a seven-billion-parameter formal theorem-proving model.

Scale formalized a data-engine offering for robotics and embodied AI, covering multimodal collection, annotation, and real-world model improvement.

Oracle had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $464.2 billion as of May 31, 2025 (NYSE: ORCL), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

CoreWeave made eight-GPU NVIDIA HGX B200 Blackwell instances generally available for enterprise AI training and inference.

Perplexity launched Labs for creating reports, spreadsheets, dashboards and lightweight applications from research.

DeepSeek upgraded R1 with stronger reasoning, reduced hallucination and JSON/function-calling support.

Mistral AI released Codestral Embed for semantic retrieval and search across software repositories.

NVIDIA reported Q1 fiscal 2026 revenue of $44.1 billion, up 69% year-over-year and 12% sequentially. Data Center revenue was $39.1 billion (+73% YoY). Net income was $18.8 billion (GAAP). Results included a $4.5 billion charge related to H20 export control restrictions.

Anthropic appointed Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings to its board of directors.

Mistral AI launched the Agents API with persistent agents, tools, orchestration, conversations and built-in connectors.

Replit launched direct visual editing for agent-built applications.

Anthropic activated ASL-3 deployment and security protections alongside the launch of Claude Opus 4.

Anthropic moved Claude Code from research preview to general availability and expanded its integrations.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 for coding, advanced reasoning, and agent workflows.