Releases

Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs announced a new AI services company focused on deploying Claude at mid-sized enterprises.

Scale signed a memorandum of understanding with the U.S. Department of Energy to explore AI-ready scientific data infrastructure, evaluations, and model applications for the Genesis Mission.

Anthropic disclosed that annualized run-rate revenue had crossed $47 billion earlier in May 2026.

CoreWeave added guided self-service and SUNK Anywhere so research teams could deploy production-grade Slurm-on-Kubernetes training on CoreWeave and other clouds.

CoreWeave launched private cross-cloud networking alongside SUNK Anywhere and LOTA Cross-Cloud to simplify distributed AI workloads.

LOTA Cross-Cloud extended CoreWeave’s local object-transport acceleration to data held outside CoreWeave regions.

Perplexity expanded Computer with connected workplace applications and enterprise workflows.

SpaceXAI launched voice cloning from short recordings for text-to-speech and voice-agent APIs.

IBM published the 8B base and instruct Granite 4.1 models.

IBM published the 30B base and instruct Granite 4.1 models.

IBM published the 3B base and instruct Granite 4.1 models.

IBM released Granite 4.1 language, vision, speech, embedding and Guardian models under Apache 2.0.

AWS expanded Quick with a desktop application, Free and Plus plans, visual-asset generation and new integrations.

AWS announced a managed OpenAI-powered agent runtime integrated with Bedrock and AWS controls.

AWS and OpenAI expanded their partnership to offer OpenAI frontier models through Amazon Bedrock in limited preview.

NVIDIA released an open multimodal model unifying vision, audio and language for efficient agents.

Mistral AI opened Workflows in public preview, enabling visual composition of enterprise AI agents and automations.

Meta agreed to deploy tens of millions of AWS Graviton cores for CPU-intensive agentic AI workloads.

OpenAI and Microsoft announce the next phase of their partnership with amended commercial terms.

OpenAI and Microsoft announced the next phase of their partnership with amended commercial terms.

OpenAI discontinued the standalone Sora product as its video strategy shifted to newer experiences and models.

The efficient V4 Flash preview became available through DeepSeek's API.

DeepSeek introduced the V4 family through Pro and Flash preview API models.

The V4 Pro preview became available through OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible interfaces.

Cohere and Aleph Alpha announced plans to combine into a transatlantic sovereign-AI company operating as Cohere; completion remained subject to approvals.

SpaceXAI released its first named Think Fast speech-to-speech voice-agent model.

OpenAI released GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro as upgraded frontier models for complex knowledge work and reasoning.

Perplexity published its approach to building and evaluating accuracy in frontier AI systems.

Google Cloud announces that future Vertex AI services and roadmap evolution will be delivered through Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.

Google Cloud launches Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform as the evolution of Vertex AI for building, scaling and governing AI agents.

Anthropic committed more than $100 billion to AWS over ten years for up to five gigawatts of Trainium capacity; Amazon committed $5 billion immediately and up to $20 billion more.

OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.0 with stronger world knowledge, instruction following, detail, and an images-with-thinking mode.

Kimi added agentic presentation and slide creation capabilities.

Kimi expanded its workspace features for producing and editing work artifacts.

Moonshot documented Kimi Researcher as a deep-research workflow within its agent suite.

Kimi expanded its multi-agent swarm system to coordinate parallel specialist agents.

Moonshot released Kimi K2.6 with improved agent capabilities and published model weights.

Scale acquired ICG Solutions and its LUX real-time streaming-data analytics platform to expand its national-security AI stack; ICG initially remained a wholly owned subsidiary.

Anthropic disclosed that annualized run-rate revenue had surpassed $30 billion, up from about $9 billion at the end of 2025.

Amazon made an additional $5 billion investment in Anthropic and said it could invest up to a further $20 billion.

Anthropic committed more than $100 billion over ten years to AWS technologies in an agreement securing up to five gigawatts of compute capacity for Claude.

SpaceXAI announced its speech-to-text and text-to-speech APIs with multilingual support and developer pricing.

Anthropic Labs launched Claude Design for creating polished designs, prototypes, slides, and other visual work.

Perplexity launched Personal Computer on Mac for local-file, application and browser workflows.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 with improved software engineering, vision, complex multi-step work, and new cybersecurity safeguards.

Baidu released an open-weight 8B DiT text-to-image model.

SpaceXAI launched batch and streaming speech transcription in 25 languages.

Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash Audio for real-time and batch audio understanding and generation.

Jane Street agreed to purchase $6 billion of CoreWeave AI cloud services and invest $1 billion in CoreWeave equity.

CoreWeave announced a multi-year agreement to support development and deployment of Anthropic’s Claude model family.