Releases

Meta announced Hyperion, a Louisiana AI data-center campus planned to scale to five gigawatts of compute capacity.

Moonshot published the post-trained Kimi K2 Instruct checkpoint for agentic and coding tasks.

Moonshot published the base pretrained Kimi K2 checkpoint.

Moonshot introduced Kimi K2, a one-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 32B active parameters.

Mistral AI expanded the Devstral family with Devstral Small 1.1 and a larger Devstral Medium model.

Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics launched Reachy Mini, a compact open-source desktop robot aimed at developers, researchers, and educators.

Perplexity launched Comet, an AI-native browser with an embedded assistant, initially for Max subscribers and waitlisted users.

xAI removed inappropriate Grok posts containing antisemitic tropes and praise for Hitler, tightened hate-speech controls and later explained that a system update had made the bot too susceptible to extremist user content.

xAI launched Grok 4 with native tool use and real-time search, plus the higher-compute Grok 4 Heavy multi-agent variant.

Microsoft releases Phi-4 Mini Flash Reasoning for fast reasoning on edge, mobile and real-time systems.

Hugging Face released a fully open 3B multilingual model with 128K context, switchable reasoning, tool use, and a disclosed training recipe.

CoreWeave announced an all-stock agreement to acquire Core Scientific and increase direct ownership of power and HPC data-center infrastructure.

Mistral AI introduced AI for Citizens, a sovereign AI offering for governments and public-sector institutions.

Palantir launched Warp Speed for Warships to apply industrial AI and manufacturing software to U.S. shipbuilding.

Perplexity launched Max, a premium subscription tier with expanded access to frontier models and new products.

Baidu introduced enterprise AI agents designed as role-specific digital workers.

Morgan Stanley arranged $5 billion of debt financing and xAI separately raised $5 billion in strategic equity to fund AI infrastructure and product development.

CoreWeave had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $83.1 billion as of Jun 30, 2025 (NASDAQ: CRWV), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Baidu had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $29.5 billion as of Jun 30, 2025 (NASDAQ: BIDU), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

IBM had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $274.0 billion as of Jun 30, 2025 (NYSE: IBM), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Palantir had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $321.7 billion as of Jun 30, 2025 (NASDAQ: PLTR), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Meta had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $1.856 trillion as of Jun 30, 2025 (NASDAQ: META), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Amazon had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $2.329 trillion as of Jun 30, 2025 (NASDAQ: AMZN), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Alphabet had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $2.145 trillion as of Jun 30, 2025 (NASDAQ: GOOGL), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Microsoft had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $3.697 trillion as of Jun 30, 2025 (NASDAQ: MSFT), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Suno acquired WavTool to add advanced digital-audio-workstation technology.

Baidu open-sourced ten ERNIE 4.5 variants spanning dense and mixture-of-experts text and vision-language models.

Meta consolidated its frontier AI efforts into Meta Superintelligence Labs, led by Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang with Nat Friedman overseeing AI products and applied research.

Google releases Gemma 3n weights and tools for efficient multimodal AI on edge devices.

ElevenLabs released Voice Design v3 for creating voices from natural-language descriptions.

Oracle and xAI made Grok 3 and Grok 3 Mini available through OCI Generative AI.

Google DeepMind introduces AlphaGenome to predict regulatory effects of DNA sequence variants at high resolution.

Harvey made its customizable Workflow Builder available to all customers; the product later became Agent Builder.

Google DeepMind introduces an on-device vision-language-action model that runs locally on robots.

Harvey raised $300 million at a $5 billion valuation.

Google transfers the A2A protocol project to the Linux Foundation to support neutral, industry-wide governance.

Mistral AI released Mistral Small 3.2 with improved instruction following, function calling and reduced repetition.

Meta and EssilorLuxottica introduced performance-focused Oakley Meta HSTN AI glasses.

Harvey and LexisNexis partnered to integrate primary law, Protégé, and Shepard's citations and co-develop legal workflows.

Midjourney released its first image-to-video model to the full community.

Databricks introduced managed Model Context Protocol servers for Unity Catalog functions, Genie spaces and AI Search indexes.

Google introduces Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite as a high-throughput, low-cost model in preview.

Google makes Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash generally available for developers and enterprises.

Cursor introduced the $200-per-month Ultra tier for power users with substantially higher usage.

Moonshot released a 72B software-engineering model optimized using reinforcement learning.

Runway released an MCP server for connecting compatible AI agents to generation tools.

Databricks introduced a simplified business-user front door to Genie spaces, dashboards and apps.

AI/BI Genie became generally available across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, alongside a new knowledge store and planned Deep Research mode.

Meta made a $14.3 billion strategic investment for a 49% non-voting minority stake in Scale AI, valuing the independent company at over $29 billion and expanding the commercial partnership.

Founder and CEO Alexandr Wang left day-to-day management to join Meta’s AI efforts while remaining a Scale director; Chief Strategy Officer Jason Droege became interim CEO.