Releases

Baidu released a more compact flagship model with stronger agents, reasoning and creative abilities.

Argyll and SambaNova partnered to launch a sovereign AI cloud for UK customers using SambaNova inference systems.

Scale completed SWE Atlas by adding Test Writing and Refactoring alongside Codebase QnA, producing a 284-task software-engineering evaluation suite.

Perplexity broadened Personal Computer availability to all users on Mac.

Axios reported Scale AI had more than 1,300 employees; value is recorded as a lower bound.

The U.S. defense department increased the potential ceiling of its Scale production agreement from $100 million to $500 million following rapid adoption across military components.

Perplexity added structured financial search and retrieval to the Agent API.

SpaceXAI added deep app connectors to Grok, followed by persistent Skills for documents, decks, spreadsheets and workflows.

SpaceXAI agreed to provide Anthropic access to Colossus 1, with both companies also expressing interest in multi-gigawatt orbital AI compute.

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.

Glean added proactive task management, Skills, real-time voice, Canvas revision review and a shared Library to its enterprise AI coworker experience.

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.

Sierra reported serving more than 40% of the Fortune 50, with agents on its platform powering billions of customer interactions.

Sierra raised $950 million from new and existing investors led by Tiger Global and GV.

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.