Releases

The former xAI operation ceased functioning as a separate company and was folded into SpaceX as its AI division, using the SpaceXAI identity.

Anthropic agreed to use all compute capacity at SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center, adding more than 300 megawatts and over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs.

Harvey launched more than 500 ready-to-use legal agents across major practice areas.

ElevenLabs reported surpassing $500 million in annual recurring revenue during the first four months of 2026.

IBM announced an agentic control plane for deploying and governing agents from multiple sources.

Perplexity launched specialized professional-finance workflows in Computer.

Perplexity added premium clinical and health-information sources to its health experience.

Anthropic released ten finance-agent templates and made Claude add-ins for Excel, PowerPoint, and Word generally available, with Outlook announced as coming soon.

Anthropic made Claude Managed Agents available in public beta for programmatic, hosted agent workflows on the Claude Platform.

Perplexity launched Computer inside Microsoft Teams.

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.

Cursor described its continuously improving agent harness and the feedback loops used to develop coding agents.

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.

ElevenLabs launched ElevenMusic as a dedicated music-creation application.

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.

Palantir renamed AIP Agent Studio to AIP Chatbot Studio and continued expanding governed agent-building capabilities.

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.