Releases

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite becomes generally available for high-volume, latency-sensitive applications.

A second close added $100 million from BDC and Nexxus Capital Management, bringing Cohere's valuation to approximately $7 billion.

Cohere expanded work with AMD across model deployment, compute infrastructure and internal use of North.

Suno released v5 with clearer audio, more natural vocals, creative control, and stronger genre understanding.

OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank announced five new US Stargate data-center sites, moving planned capacity toward nearly 7 gigawatts.

DeepSeek improved language consistency and its code and search agents.

The US General Services Administration added Meta's Llama models to OneGov to support federal-agency AI adoption.

OpenAI and NVIDIA signed a letter of intent to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems, with the first Vera Rubin gigawatt targeted for the second half of 2026.

OpenAI and NVIDIA announced a strategic partnership to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems for OpenAI infrastructure.

Scale released MCP Atlas to evaluate how well AI agents combine tools across real Model Context Protocol servers.

Scale expanded the SEAL Leaderboards into agent evaluation, beginning with SWE-Bench Pro and MCP Atlas.

Scale released a harder, contamination-resistant benchmark using real and commercial repositories to measure software agents on complex multi-file engineering tasks.

xAI released Grok 4 Fast with a 2M-token context window, unified reasoning modes and lower-cost agentic search.

Sierra launched a no-code environment that enables customer experience teams to build and manage AI agents.

Perplexity expanded its enterprise platform with stronger knowledge connectors, administration and collaborative workflows.

Meta announced an EMG wristband that translates subtle muscle signals into controls for Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses.

Meta announced AI glasses with an in-lens color display for visual Meta AI answers, messages, navigation and captions.

Meta launched second-generation Ray-Ban Meta glasses with longer battery life, 3K video and expanded Meta AI features.

CoreWeave announced an incremental £1.5 billion UK data-center commitment, bringing its stated UK investment to £2.5 billion.

CoreWeave and NVIDIA agreed on a strategic collaboration to scale GPU infrastructure and accelerate AI innovation.

xAI made its stateful Responses API generally available.

Baidu introduced a sparse-attention inference update for faster long-context performance.

OpenAI and Microsoft announced a non-binding memorandum of understanding for the next phase of their partnership, alongside plans for the nonprofit to control a public benefit corporation and hold a substantial equity stake.

Replit released Agent 3 with browser testing, self-repair, and the ability to create agents and automations.

Perplexity raised $200 million at a $20 billion valuation.