Releases

Suno launched preference learning for genres, moods, and musical references.

Suno launched personalized models trained on a creator's own catalog.

Suno launched verified private voice personalization.

Suno released v5.5 with more expressive generation and new personalization capabilities.

Shield AI announced an agreement to acquire simulation-software company Aechelon Technology.

Shield AI announced $1.5 billion in Series G equity and $500 million in preferred financing at a $12.7 billion post-money valuation.

Cohere entered speech recognition with the open Transcribe model family.

Cohere introduced an open-source speech-recognition model for accurate multilingual transcription.

Perplexity and Samsung expanded AI browsing and assistant experiences across Samsung devices.

Meta released a tri-modal foundation model that predicts high-resolution human brain activity from video, audio and language.

Harvey raised $200 million at an $11 billion valuation, co-led by GIC and Sequoia.

Harvey introduced enterprise governance controls for secure AI adoption and administration.

Oracle added private agent creation, lakehouse vectors and secure agent connectivity across its AI Database portfolio.

Oracle introduced an MCP server for secure agent access to Autonomous AI Database.

Oracle added native vector indexing and search over Apache Iceberg tables.

Oracle introduced a no-code system for building private agents in cloud or on-premises environments.

Oracle introduced a developer-focused vector database built on Autonomous AI Database.

Databricks announced Lakewatch, an agentic SIEM for detection, investigation and response on a security lakehouse.

Scale Labs updated MultiChallenge with a stronger judge model, refined tasks, and refreshed results to improve agreement with expert ratings.

Mistral AI released Voxtral TTS, a 4B multilingual text-to-speech model.

AWS released developer tooling for building customized Nova-based frontier models.

AMD Ventures announced an investment and collaboration with World Labs around spatial intelligence, world models and AMD compute infrastructure.

Skild announced partnerships to deploy the Skild Brain across ABB and Universal Robots systems and on dual-arm robots assembling NVIDIA Blackwell systems with Foxconn.

Perplexity launched a health information and research experience using premium medical sources.

Perplexity formed a Health Advisory Board to guide safety, quality and product development for health information.