Releases

Anthropic disclosed annualized run-rate revenue of $14 billion and said it had grown more than tenfold annually for each of the prior three years.

Anthropic raised a $30 billion Series G led by GIC and Coatue, with a $380 billion post-money valuation.

OpenAI released a research preview of GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a smaller model optimized for near-real-time coding.

ElevenLabs launched a dedicated public-sector offering for citizen services and government workflows.

Runway made Gen-4.5 available to developers for text-to-video and image-to-video generation.

Runway raised a $315 million Series E at a $5.3 billion valuation.

Databricks disclosed a $1.4 billion annual revenue run-rate for its AI products.

Databricks completed about $5 billion of equity financing at a $134 billion valuation plus roughly $2 billion of additional debt capacity.

Suno added warp markers, Remove FX, alternates, and time-signature support to Studio.

Baidu released a 2.4T-parameter unified model trained jointly across text, image, video and audio.

CoreWeave introduced a new brand positioning centered on being the essential cloud platform for production AI.

CoreWeave introduced ARENA, a production-scale lab for testing AI workload performance, economics, and operational readiness before deployment.

Perplexity launched Model Council, allowing users to query multiple frontier models and synthesize their agreements and disagreements.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.6 with stronger coding, longer-running agentic work, improved knowledge work, and a one-million-token context window in beta.

OpenAI released GPT-5.3-Codex, an interactive agentic coding model for complex software and professional work.

ElevenLabs released a conversationally optimized v3 model with improved turn-taking, latency, and expressiveness.

ElevenLabs raised $500 million at an $11 billion valuation.

AIP Document Intelligence became generally available for extracting, structuring, and reasoning over documents.

Mistral AI released two second-generation Voxtral transcription models for production speech-to-text workloads.

Eleven v3 moved from alpha to general availability.

SpaceX acquired X.AI Holdings in an all-stock merger. Reporting tied to the transaction valued xAI at about $250 billion and SpaceX at $1 trillion, implying a combined $1.25 trillion value.

Anthropic named the Allen Institute and Howard Hughes Medical Institute as founding life-sciences partners to develop specialized AI agents and accelerate scientific discovery.

Moonshot opened public beta access to Kimi Claw, a persistent cloud agent workspace.

Baidu released an upgraded 0.9B document-parsing vision-language model.

Modal added richer observability and management controls for running Sandboxes.

Modal became available through the AWS and Google Cloud marketplaces.

Cohere launched Model Vault for dedicated, fully managed and isolated model inference.

xAI launched next-generation image and video generation through the Grok Imagine API, alongside a Batch API for high-volume workloads.

Moonshot released Kimi K2.5, adding native multimodal capabilities and stronger agentic coding.

DeepSeek published its second-generation visual causal-flow OCR model.

Agent Bricks Knowledge Assistant became generally available, powered by instructed retrieval and MLflow evaluation.

Mistral AI expanded Vibe into a fuller agentic development environment for software teams.

NVIDIA agreed to test and validate CoreWeave’s platform software and reference architectures to accelerate deployment of AI factories.

Scale researchers released LHAW, a framework for generating underspecified long-horizon tasks and evaluating whether agents clarify ambiguity and recover performance.

Cursor launched reusable Skills for packaging task-specific agent instructions and workflows.

Cursor launched specialized subagents for decomposing and parallelizing complex coding work.

Cursor 2.4 introduced subagents, reusable agent skills, and image generation capabilities.

Scale reported that 2025 was its strongest financial year, with more than $1 billion in new business, profitable data operations, and accelerating applications and government work.

Accenture and Palantir expanded their partnership around sovereign AI transformation and operating systems.

Deutsche Telekom and ElevenLabs partnered on enterprise voice-AI deployments.

Google releases FunctionGemma, a compact open model specialized for function calling and on-device agent workflows.

Anthropic expanded Labs as a dedicated team for incubating experimental products at the frontier of Claude's capabilities.

Anthropic released Cowork as a research preview, bringing Claude's agentic capabilities to desktop work across files and applications.

Anthropic introduced HIPAA-ready Claude tools and resources for healthcare providers, payers, health-tech companies, and individuals, alongside expanded life-sciences capabilities.

Midjourney and Spellbrush released Niji V7 with improved coherency, line work, and prompt adherence.

ElevenLabs released Scribe v2 with improved multilingual transcription and audio understanding.

Cursor CLI added model selection, MCP management, rules support, and renamed its main command to agent.

Perplexity launched a specialized offering for public-safety organizations.

xAI closed an upsized $20 billion Series E, above its $15 billion target; contemporaneous reporting placed the company’s valuation at more than $230 billion.

CoreWeave announced it would extend its cloud platform with NVIDIA’s Rubin architecture for the next generation of AI training and inference.