Releases

AWS launched 3nm Trainium3-powered EC2 UltraServers for model training and inference.

AWS launched a service for organizations to create customized frontier models using Nova checkpoints and training infrastructure.

AWS released a unified embedding model for text, documents, images, video and audio.

AWS released its second-generation speech-to-speech foundation model.

AWS introduced a unified multimodal reasoning and image-generation model in preview.

AWS introduced its most intelligent Nova 2 model for complex multistep tasks in preview.

AWS released a fast multimodal reasoning model with extended thinking, built-in tools and a one-million-token context window.

Runway released Gen-4.5 with improved visual fidelity, motion quality, and prompt adherence.

Baidu integrated Wenku and Baidu Drive into a new group focused on AI application innovation.

DeepSeek offered a temporary high-compute reasoning endpoint until December 15.

DeepSeek upgraded chat and reasoner services to the production V3.2 model.

Qatar’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology launched the Arabic-first ALIF AI fluency program with Scale AI for government professionals.

Transformers v5 entered release candidate with simplified model definitions, standardized attention interfaces, and support for more than 400 architectures.

AWS expanded Transform to modernize application, database and user-interface layers of Windows workloads.

DeepSeek released its self-verifiable mathematical reasoning model.

Cohere and SAP expanded collaboration to offer sovereign AI solutions for European customers.

Perplexity introduced persistent memory for AI assistants to personalize future interactions.

Suno and Warner Music Group partnered on licensed next-generation music models and artist experiences.

Perplexity relaunched Shopping as a free personalized conversational shopping experience with native purchasing.

AWS announced plans to invest up to $50 billion to expand AI and high-performance-computing infrastructure for US government customers.

Anthropic expanded Claude for Chrome beyond the waitlist to all Claude Max subscribers.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.5 for coding, agents, computer use, research, and professional work.

Perplexity launched a native Android version of the Comet AI browser.

Google launches Gemini 3 Pro Image, branded Nano Banana Pro, for professional image generation and editing.

Suno raised a $250 million Series C at a $2.45 billion post-money valuation.

Perplexity announced a partnership to provide its services to United States government users.

xAI signed a framework agreement with Saudi Arabia and HUMAIN covering Grok deployment, agent-platform integration and AI infrastructure.

xAI released Grok 4.1 Fast and an Agent Tools API with X search, web search, code execution and collections search.

Meta released a model for estimating human body pose and shape from a single image.

Meta released a model for reconstructing 3D objects and scenes from a single image.

Meta released SAM 3 for text-, exemplar- and visual-prompted detection, segmentation and tracking in images and video.

NVIDIA reported Q3 fiscal 2026 record revenue of $57.0 billion, up 62% year-over-year and 22% sequentially. Data Center revenue was $51.2 billion (+66% YoY). Net income was $31.9 billion (GAAP). Jensen Huang noted 'Blackwell sales are off the charts, and cloud GPUs are sold out.'

Replit launched an AI design mode for rapid interactive mockups and websites.

Databricks became an early Microsoft Agent 365 partner, bringing governed Agent Bricks experiences to Teams, Outlook and Excel.

Microsoft and Anthropic expand their partnership, bringing Claude models to Microsoft Foundry and Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Google launches Antigravity, an agent-first development environment built around autonomous planning, coding and verification.

Google launches Gemini 3 Pro for advanced multimodal reasoning, coding and agentic work.

Anthropic and Microsoft expanded their partnership, bringing Claude models to Microsoft Foundry and Microsoft 365 Copilot.

ElevenLabs launched visual-generation workflows alongside its audio tools.

xAI released Grok 4.1 across grok.com, X, iOS and Android with improvements to creative, emotional and collaborative interactions.

Perplexity added stronger visibility, confirmations and user controls for Comet Assistant actions.

Cursor raised $2.3 billion at a $29.3 billion post-money valuation from existing and new investors including Coatue, NVIDIA, and Google.

Cursor disclosed that annualized revenue had surpassed $1 billion and its team had grown beyond 300 people.

Baidu upgraded Qianfan with stronger model services and enterprise agent-development infrastructure.

Baidu introduced a self-evolving machine-learning engineering agent.

OpenAI released GPT-5.1 for developers with improved coding, steerability, and agentic performance.

CoreWeave increased its revolving credit facility from $1.5 billion to $2.5 billion and extended maturity to November 2029.

ElevenLabs released a real-time version of Scribe v2 for streaming transcription.

Baidu released a sparse multimodal reasoning model activating only 3B parameters.

Databricks introduced ai_parse_document for multimodal PDF and document understanding integrated with Agent Bricks, AI Search and AI/BI.