Releases

Scale reported that 2025 was its strongest financial year, with more than $1 billion in new business, profitable data operations, and accelerating applications and government work.

Accenture and Palantir expanded their partnership around sovereign AI transformation and operating systems.

Deutsche Telekom and ElevenLabs partnered on enterprise voice-AI deployments.

Google releases FunctionGemma, a compact open model specialized for function calling and on-device agent workflows.

Anthropic expanded Labs as a dedicated team for incubating experimental products at the frontier of Claude's capabilities.

Anthropic released Cowork as a research preview, bringing Claude's agentic capabilities to desktop work across files and applications.

Anthropic introduced HIPAA-ready Claude tools and resources for healthcare providers, payers, health-tech companies, and individuals, alongside expanded life-sciences capabilities.

Midjourney and Spellbrush released Niji V7 with improved coherency, line work, and prompt adherence.

ElevenLabs released Scribe v2 with improved multilingual transcription and audio understanding.

Cursor CLI added model selection, MCP management, rules support, and renamed its main command to agent.

Perplexity launched a specialized offering for public-safety organizations.

xAI closed an upsized $20 billion Series E, above its $15 billion target; contemporaneous reporting placed the company’s valuation at more than $230 billion.

CoreWeave announced it would extend its cloud platform with NVIDIA’s Rubin architecture for the next generation of AI training and inference.

NVIDIA released Cosmos Transfer 2.5, Predict 2.5 and Reason 2, updated GR00T N1.6, and introduced Jetson T4000.

Baidu announced a proposed spin-off and separate listing of its Kunlunxin AI-chip business.

Shield AI documented its AI analytics platform for scoring and visualizing flight maneuvers.

Moonshot completed a reported $500 million financing at a $4.3 billion valuation.

CoreWeave ended 2025 with 43 active data centers, more than 850 MW of active power, and approximately 3.1 GW of contracted power.

xAI published its frontier-AI risk-management framework covering capability evaluation, safeguards and model development practices.

NVIDIA market capitalisation at end of calendar year 2025, up 38% year-over-year. NVIDIA remained the world's most valuable public company, sustained by record data centre AI GPU demand.

xAI launched secure team and enterprise Grok plans with no training on customer data, team administration, SSO and SCIM options.

xAI launched an expanded production Collections API for retrieval-augmented generation directly within the Grok API.

xAI announced selection to deliver frontier AI capabilities for the U.S. Department of War.

Graphite entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Cursor while initially continuing to operate its code-review platform independently.

Anthropic and the US Department of Energy announced a multi-year partnership supporting energy, life-sciences, and scientific-productivity work across national laboratories.

OpenAI released GPT-5.2-Codex, an agentic coding model optimized for long-horizon software engineering.

Mistral AI released Mistral OCR 3 with improved document parsing and structured extraction.

xAI launched its Voice Agent API for developers building real-time conversational voice systems.

Google launches Gemini 3 Flash as a fast, production-oriented model in the Gemini 3 family.

OpenAI opened app submissions and launched an app directory in ChatGPT.

Databricks announced it was raising more than $4 billion in Series L equity financing at a $134 billion valuation.

Meta released a unified multimodal model for separating sounds from complex mixtures using natural prompts.

NVIDIA introduced Nemotron 3 Nano, Super and Ultra open models and companion reinforcement-learning and evaluation tools.

Harvey delivered major performance, personalization, multimodal, and workflow integration upgrades across Assistant and Vault.

Cohere launched Rerank 4, its fourth-generation retrieval model family in Pro and Fast tiers.

xAI and El Salvador announced a nationwide AI education program using Grok in the country’s schools.

OpenAI released GPT-5.2 with improvements for professional knowledge work and long-context tasks.

CoreWeave expanded Mission Control with Telemetry Relay entering GA, GPU Straggler Detection in preview, and the Mission Control Agent in preview.

Mistral AI launched Vibe CLI, an agentic command-line coding environment powered by Devstral.

Mistral AI released Devstral 2, its second-generation open code-agent model.

Anthropic donated MCP to the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation while retaining its open, community-driven governance model.

The New York Times filed suit alleging copyright infringement involving Perplexity's search and answer products.

Meta announced content partnerships to bring more real-time news and information into Meta AI responses.

Palantir, NVIDIA, and CenterPoint Energy launched Chain Reaction to coordinate AI infrastructure and critical supply chains.

Perplexity released BrowseSafe research on detecting and mitigating threats in AI browsers.

Mistral AI released the Mistral 3 generation, including open-weight Mistral Large 3 and Ministral 3 models in 3B, 8B and 14B sizes.

AWS and NVIDIA announced infrastructure for deploying integrated AI factories in customers' own data centers.

AWS announced policy controls and automated evaluations for production AI agents.

AWS expanded Amazon Connect with production agentic AI for customer-service interactions.

AWS introduced a frontier agent for investigating and resolving cloud operational incidents.