Releases

Mistral AI launched Shieldstral, a security and guardrail layer for AI applications and agents.

NVIDIA released Alpamayo 2 Super under an open commercial license for autonomous-vehicle development.

Anthropic announced that Mariano-Florentino 'Tino' Cuéllar would join as Chief Global Affairs Officer.

DeepSeek released the official Flash API in public beta with upgraded coding and agent performance.

Cohere signed the EU Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content.

SpaceXAI added text, image and voice references plus native 1080p support to Imagine Video 1.5.

Scale’s board appointed former Google Cloud and Illumina executive Francis deSouza as chief executive officer, effective August 10, 2026.

Perplexity evolved Spaces into Projects with persistent files, memory, connectors and shared agent workspaces.

Amazon reported $200.6 billion in quarterly net sales, $27.5 billion in operating income, and AWS quarterly sales of $42.2 billion.

Moonshot closed a $3.5 billion financing round, valuing the company at $35 billion.

SpaceXAI released its second-generation real-time speech-to-speech model.

Meta reported $60.801 billion in quarterly revenue, $15.848 billion in net income and headcount of 75,472 as of June 30, 2026.

Perplexity brought Model Council into Computer for multi-model analysis and artifact generation.

Grok 4.5 became available to developers through GitHub Copilot.

SpaceXAI launched an early beta mode for creating websites, apps, games and interactive dashboards inside Grok.

Moonshot published the full Kimi K3 weights and implementation resources.

Cohere launched governed workflow orchestration in North with branching, approvals, schedules and model routing.

Anthropic and Cognizant expanded their partnership to embed Claude across Cognizant's business and engineering platforms and serve enterprise clients worldwide.

SpaceXAI launched a Grok add-on for Google Sheets, Slides and Docs.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 with improvements in coding, long-running agents, professional work, and scientific reasoning.

Grok Build gained workflow orchestration for fanning tasks across many agents, verifying results and reporting in the background.

SpaceXAI expanded Grok 4.5 availability across grok.com, X, iOS and Android.

SpaceXAI launched a Microsoft Outlook add-in for thread summaries and drafting replies.

Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash with stronger reasoning and agentic performance at Flash-class latency.

Google DeepMind introduces Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber for defensive cybersecurity analysis and agentic workflows.

Google launches Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite for cost-efficient production workloads.

Moonshot temporarily paused new Kimi subscriptions as demand for K3 strained available capacity.

SpaceXAI launched a Microsoft Excel add-in for natural-language analysis, formulas and scenarios.

A federal court granted final approval to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors over pirated copies of books held in its training library.

Reuters reported DeepSeek was planning a second fundraising round ahead of a potential mainland IPO. The target valuation is retained as metadata because the round was not completed.

Kimi K3 launched with native vision, agentic capabilities and a one-million-token context window.

Moonshot introduced Kimi K3, its 2.8T-parameter native multimodal frontier model family.

A Chinese stock-exchange filing disclosed an indirect 0.8265% stake and implied a RMB350.88B ($51.82B) company valuation.

Databricks signed a Coatue-led strategic-funding term sheet valuing the company at $188 billion, with proceeds targeted at Unity AI Gateway, Genie and Lakebase.

SpaceXAI added scheduled and trigger-based automations that run jobs and report results.

SpaceXAI introduced Grok 4.5 as its strongest model for coding, agentic tasks and knowledge work, trained alongside Cursor.

Perplexity launched secure isolated sandboxes for agent code execution and tool use.

SpaceXAI open-sourced the Grok Build coding-agent harness and terminal user interface.

NVIDIA introduced an edge-optimized Cosmos 3 model for real-time physical AI systems.

Cohere Labs documented the Tiny Aya family and community applications for compact open multilingual AI.

Mistral AI Studio added centralized prompt and skills management for enterprise AI systems.

AWS made OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna generally available through Amazon Bedrock.

Meta launched an API for developers to access and build with Muse Spark 1.1.

Meta released Muse Spark 1.1 and made it available through Meta Model API.

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work, a workspace for longer, multi-step professional tasks powered by GPT-5.6.

OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna broadly across ChatGPT, Codex, and the API.

Mistral AI released Robostral Navigate, a vision-language-action model for robotic navigation.

SpaceXAI made Grok 4.5 available through the API for coding, agentic tasks and knowledge work.

OpenAI released GPT-Live-1 and GPT-Live-1 mini for low-latency, natively multimodal voice and realtime interaction.

Cohere released an open speech-recognition model tailored to Arabic languages and dialects.