Releases

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.

Suno stated that its team had grown to more than 250 people; value is recorded as a lower bound.

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.

NVIDIA employee count reported for fiscal year-end 2026.

NVIDIA had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $4.560 trillion as of Jan 25, 2026 (NASDAQ: NVDA), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

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

Lower-bound adoption proxy based on four customer organizations named in the source: RBC, Ensemble Health Partners, SAP and Oracle.

Reported Cohere workforce in January 2026.

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.