Releases

Mistral AI released Mistral Small 3.1, adding multimodal understanding and stronger multilingual capabilities.

xAI acquired AI video-generation startup Hotshot, bringing its team and technology into xAI’s multimodal roadmap.

Baidu released its first deep-thinking reasoning model.

Baidu released its first flagship native multimodal foundation model.

Databricks and Palantir partnered to combine data intelligence, ontology, and AI application capabilities.

Cohere released the 111B-parameter Command A, optimized for agents, RAG, tool use and multilingual enterprise workloads.

Cohere made Command A weights available for research and private deployment.

AWS made its unified environment for data, analytics, machine learning and generative AI generally available.

Anthropic released API features designed to reduce token use and improve long-running agent workflows.

Databricks enhanced agent evaluation with customizable LLM judges, human review workflows and OpenTelemetry-based MLflow tracing.

Google DeepMind introduces Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robotics-ER for embodied reasoning and robot control.

Google releases Gemma 3, a multimodal and multilingual open-model family designed to run on a single accelerator.

Harvey launched its client-facing agentic platform for professional legal workflows.

Harvey introduced agentic workflows in Assistant for transactional, litigation, financial-services, and other legal work.

Databricks released APIs for embedding Genie conversational analytics into applications, Teams, Slack and SharePoint.

OpenAI released the open-source Agents SDK for orchestrating single- and multi-agent workflows.

OpenAI launched the Responses API as a new foundation for building agentic applications with built-in tools.

CoreWeave entered a long-term agreement to provide AI infrastructure to OpenAI, with a contract value of up to $11.9 billion.

Mosaic AI Gateway added support for OpenAI-compatible external and custom model providers with centralized permissions, routing and monitoring.

Shield AI introduced a reusable autonomy catalog for mission behaviors and components.

EdgeOS became Hivemind Enterprise's production middleware and edge runtime.

Hivemind Commander provided mission planning and control within the Enterprise suite.

Hivemind Forge became the simulation and autonomy-development environment within Hivemind Enterprise.

Shield AI launched Hivemind Enterprise as a complete autonomy-development suite.

Shield AI completed a $240 million strategic financing at a $5.3 billion valuation.

Mistral AI launched its first OCR model and Document AI capabilities for high-quality document parsing.

Anthropic upgraded its developer Console with tools for prompt development, evaluation, collaboration, and production deployment.

The U.S. Defense Innovation Unit selected Scale to lead Project Thunderforge with Anduril and Microsoft, integrating AI agents into operational military planning.

Google begins testing AI Mode, a conversational Search experience for complex, multimodal questions and follow-ups.

CoreWeave entered an agreement to acquire Weights & Biases and add experiment tracking, model management, evaluation, and monitoring to its AI cloud platform.

Microsoft introduces Dragon Copilot, combining ambient clinical documentation, dictation and healthcare workflow assistance.

Anthropic raised $3.5 billion led by Lightspeed Venture Partners at a $61.5 billion post-money valuation.

Moonshot released a preview checkpoint for formal mathematical theorem proving.

Moonshot introduced the Kimina-Prover line of open models for formal theorem proving.

Oracle had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $464.5 billion as of Feb 28, 2025 (NYSE: ORCL), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

IBM completed the HashiCorp acquisition, adding Terraform and Vault to its hybrid-cloud and AI platform.

Anthropic launched a public Transparency Hub describing its safety, governance, security, and responsible-deployment practices.

OpenAI released GPT-4.5 as a research preview in ChatGPT and the API.

ElevenLabs launched transcription powered by Scribe.

ElevenLabs released Scribe, its first major speech-to-text model.

IBM released updated compact time-series models for long-range forecasting.

IBM updated its open safety model for detecting risks in prompts and responses.

IBM released a compact vision-language model for document and chart understanding.

IBM released the 8B Granite 3.2 model with controllable reasoning capabilities.

IBM released the 2B Granite 3.2 model with controllable reasoning capabilities.

Amazon announced a generative-AI version of Alexa with natural conversation, personalization and agentic task completion.

Microsoft releases Phi-4 Multimodal, a 5.6-billion-parameter model jointly processing speech, vision and text.

Microsoft releases Phi-4 Mini, a compact long-context language model with multilingual and function-calling capabilities.

Replit released Agent 2 with real-time application design preview.

IBM agreed to acquire DataStax to add vector data, Astra DB and Langflow capabilities to watsonx.