Releases

Amazon announced a generative-AI version of Alexa with natural conversation, personalization and agentic task completion.

Microsoft releases Phi-4 Multimodal, a 5.6-billion-parameter model jointly processing speech, vision and text.

Microsoft releases Phi-4 Mini, a compact long-context language model with multilingual and function-calling capabilities.

Replit released Agent 2 with real-time application design preview.

IBM agreed to acquire DataStax to add vector data, Astra DB and Langflow capabilities to watsonx.

Perplexity announced a $50 million venture fund to invest in early-stage AI startups.

Anthropic introduced Claude Code as a terminal-based agentic coding tool in limited research preview.

Anthropic released Claude 3.7 Sonnet, its first hybrid reasoning model with standard and extended-thinking modes.

Scale entered a five-year partnership with Qatar’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology to deploy AI applications, analytics, automation, and workforce programs across government.

Hugging Face released SmolVLM2 at 256M, 500M, and 2.2B parameters with support for video understanding as well as images and text.

xAI unveiled Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini with reasoning modes, DeepSearch and Think capabilities trained on Colossus.

Microsoft Research and Xbox introduce Muse, a generative world and action model trained on gameplay sequences.

At launch, Thinking Machines Lab was reported to have approximately 30 employees, including a number of former OpenAI researchers and engineers.

Mira Murati publicly introduced Thinking Machines Lab and its mission to build AI systems that are more understandable, customizable and collaborative.

Perplexity released R1 1776, an open-weight post-trained version of DeepSeek-R1 intended to reduce censorship while retaining reasoning capability.

Mistral AI reported one million Le Chat mobile app downloads; downloads are an adoption proxy, not unique active users.

South Korea's privacy regulator suspended new downloads while reviewing personal-data protections.

Mistral AI released Mistral Saba, a 24B regional language model optimized for Arabic and languages of the Middle East and South Asia.

Perplexity launched Deep Research, an autonomous mode that performs many searches, evaluates sources and writes cited reports.

Harvey raised $300 million at a $3 billion valuation in a Sequoia-led Series D.

Scale published MASK as part of its safety research program for testing whether models knowingly state beliefs inconsistent with their internal representations.

Scale released FORTRESS to evaluate frontier-model safeguards against dual-use national-security and public-safety risks.

Perplexity released a faster in-house Sonar model built on Llama 3.3 70B and served through Cerebras for Pro search.

Cohere and RBC began co-developing North for Banking for secure, regulated financial-services work.

Cohere introduced Compass as North's multimodal search and discovery backbone for governed enterprise data.