Releases

Microsoft AI announces MAI-Image-2.6 with major benchmark improvements in generation and image editing.

OpenAI introduced GPT-5.6 Cyber for high-end defensive cybersecurity use through Daybreak.

OpenAI expanded Daybreak as a cyber-defense program and access platform for defensive security work.

SpaceXAI released Imagine Image 2.0 for precise image generation and editing with stronger text rendering.

Anthropic updated Claude Fable 5's biology safeguards as part of its safety work for high-capability models.

DeepSeek reportedly resumed a second round seeking close to $8B; it remained unclosed.

Perplexity launched builder-focused Computer workflows spanning coding, deployment, monitoring and business operations.

CoreWeave announced its first Asia-Pacific infrastructure expansion with new facilities in Indonesia.

SpaceX, SpaceXAI's publicly traded parent, reported revenue of $7.8 billion for the April-June 2026 quarter, up 92% year over year, in its first report since listing. This is consolidated SpaceX revenue, not AI-only revenue.

Perplexity released Numbat, an open-source monitoring and response layer for AI coding agents.

Perplexity released Personal Computer for Windows with local files, background sessions and desktop workflows.

Mistral AI launched Shieldstral, a security and guardrail layer for AI applications and agents.

NVIDIA released Alpamayo 2 Super under an open commercial license for autonomous-vehicle development.

Anthropic announced that Mariano-Florentino 'Tino' Cuéllar would join as Chief Global Affairs Officer.

Palantir reported 93% year-over-year revenue growth and raised full-year guidance, highlighting continued AIP-led demand.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX), SpaceXAI's publicly traded parent, had a consolidated equity market capitalization of approximately $1.430 trillion at the Jul 31, 2026 close. SpaceXAI is not separately listed, so this is the public-market value used for the SpaceXAI company profile.

DeepSeek released the official Flash API in public beta with upgraded coding and agent performance.

Cohere signed the EU Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content.

SpaceXAI added text, image and voice references plus native 1080p support to Imagine Video 1.5.

Runway retired Gen-3 Alpha Turbo and first-generation Aleph API identifiers.

Runway released Aleph 2.0 for advanced video transformation and professional output workflows.

Scale’s board appointed former Google Cloud and Illumina executive Francis deSouza as chief executive officer, effective August 10, 2026.

Perplexity evolved Spaces into Projects with persistent files, memory, connectors and shared agent workspaces.

Amazon reported $200.6 billion in quarterly net sales, $27.5 billion in operating income, and AWS quarterly sales of $42.2 billion.

Microsoft reported revenue of $90.0 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2026, up 18% year over year.

Moonshot closed a $3.5 billion financing round, valuing the company at $35 billion.

SpaceXAI released its second-generation real-time speech-to-speech model.

Meta reported $60.801 billion in quarterly revenue, $15.848 billion in net income and headcount of 75,472 as of June 30, 2026.

Perplexity brought Model Council into Computer for multi-model analysis and artifact generation.

Grok 4.5 became available to developers through GitHub Copilot.

SpaceXAI launched an early beta mode for creating websites, apps, games and interactive dashboards inside Grok.

Moonshot published the full Kimi K3 weights and implementation resources.

Cohere launched governed workflow orchestration in North with branching, approvals, schedules and model routing.

Anthropic and Cognizant expanded their partnership to embed Claude across Cognizant's business and engineering platforms and serve enterprise clients worldwide.

NVIDIA had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $5.010 trillion as of Jul 26, 2026 (NASDAQ: NVDA), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Midjourney retired the V8.0 alpha after V8.2 became available.

Midjourney launched its V8-era dedicated Edit Model.

Midjourney released V8.2 as the default model with improved aesthetics, image quality, personalization, and a new Edit Model.

SpaceXAI launched a Grok add-on for Google Sheets, Slides and Docs.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 with improvements in coding, long-running agents, professional work, and scientific reasoning.

Microsoft's legal and compliance organization expanded its collaboration with and use of Harvey.

Harvey launched ethical-wall enforcement through its Intapp integration.

Grok Build gained workflow orchestration for fanning tasks across many agents, verifying results and reporting in the background.

IBM reported total revenue of $17.162 billion for the second quarter of 2026.

Alphabet reported consolidated revenues of $119.8 billion for the quarter ended June 30, 2026, up 24% year over year.

Cursor launched Router, a model-routing system that dynamically selects an appropriate coding model.

SpaceXAI expanded Grok 4.5 availability across grok.com, X, iOS and Android.

SpaceXAI launched a Microsoft Outlook add-in for thread summaries and drafting replies.

Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash with stronger reasoning and agentic performance at Flash-class latency.

Google DeepMind introduces Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber for defensive cybersecurity analysis and agentic workflows.

Google launches Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite for cost-efficient production workloads.

Shield AI and GE Aerospace completed engine and thrust-vectoring integration testing for X-BAT.

Cursor published research on the economics and scaling behavior of large coding-agent swarms.

Moonshot temporarily paused new Kimi subscriptions as demand for K3 strained available capacity.

SpaceXAI launched a Microsoft Excel add-in for natural-language analysis, formulas and scenarios.

A federal court granted final approval to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors over pirated copies of books held in its training library.

Reuters reported DeepSeek was planning a second fundraising round ahead of a potential mainland IPO. The target valuation is retained as metadata because the round was not completed.

Kimi K3 launched with native vision, agentic capabilities and a one-million-token context window.

Moonshot introduced Kimi K3, its 2.8T-parameter native multimodal frontier model family.

A Chinese stock-exchange filing disclosed an indirect 0.8265% stake and implied a RMB350.88B ($51.82B) company valuation.

Databricks signed a Coatue-led strategic-funding term sheet valuing the company at $188 billion, with proceeds targeted at Unity AI Gateway, Genie and Lakebase.

SpaceXAI added scheduled and trigger-based automations that run jobs and report results.

SpaceXAI introduced Grok 4.5 as its strongest model for coding, agentic tasks and knowledge work, trained alongside Cursor.

Perplexity launched secure isolated sandboxes for agent code execution and tool use.

SpaceXAI open-sourced the Grok Build coding-agent harness and terminal user interface.

NVIDIA introduced an edge-optimized Cosmos 3 model for real-time physical AI systems.

Cohere Labs documented the Tiny Aya family and community applications for compact open multilingual AI.

Mistral AI Studio added centralized prompt and skills management for enterprise AI systems.

AWS made OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna generally available through Amazon Bedrock.

Meta launched an API for developers to access and build with Muse Spark 1.1.

Meta released Muse Spark 1.1 and made it available through Meta Model API.

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work, a workspace for longer, multi-step professional tasks powered by GPT-5.6.

OpenAI launched GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna broadly across ChatGPT, Codex, and the API.

Mistral AI released Robostral Navigate, a vision-language-action model for robotic navigation.

SpaceXAI made Grok 4.5 available through the API for coding, agentic tasks and knowledge work.

OpenAI released GPT-Live-1 and GPT-Live-1 mini for low-latency, natively multimodal voice and realtime interaction.

Cohere released an open speech-recognition model tailored to Arabic languages and dialects.

Meta announced Muse Video, a generative video model with native audio support, as coming soon.

Meta released Muse Image for instruction-following image generation, precise editing and multi-reference composition.

SpaceX’s AI division formally adopted the SpaceXAI name and introduced a new combined brand identity, completing the transition from xAI.

SpaceXAI added 21 multilingual voices and improved the naturalness of its original voice set.

Mistral AI released Leanstral 1.5 with improved formal reasoning and theorem-proving capabilities.

SpaceXAI launched a no-code builder for creating personalized voice agents.

Anthropic restored global access to Fable 5 and resumed restricted access to Mythos 5 after the relevant export controls were lifted.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX), SpaceXAI's publicly traded parent, had a consolidated equity market capitalization of approximately $2.250 trillion at the Jun 30, 2026 close. SpaceXAI is not separately listed, so this is the public-market value used for the SpaceXAI company profile.

CoreWeave had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $54.3 billion as of Jun 30, 2026 (NASDAQ: CRWV), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Baidu had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $38.9 billion as of Jun 30, 2026 (NASDAQ: BIDU), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

IBM had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $264.3 billion as of Jun 30, 2026 (NYSE: IBM), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Palantir had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $279.7 billion as of Jun 30, 2026 (NASDAQ: PLTR), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Meta had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $1.430 trillion as of Jun 30, 2026 (NASDAQ: META), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Amazon had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $2.564 trillion as of Jun 30, 2026 (NASDAQ: AMZN), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Alphabet had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $4.339 trillion as of Jun 30, 2026 (NASDAQ: GOOGL), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Microsoft had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $2.771 trillion as of Jun 30, 2026 (NASDAQ: MSFT), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

ElevenLabs introduced Procedures for structured, governed agent execution.

Apollo Go began London road tests through mobility-platform partnerships.

Apollo Go launched fully driverless commercial operations in Dubai, including availability through Uber.

Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 as an upgrade to Sonnet 4.6 for agentic work, coding, and professional tasks.

Anthropic launched Claude Science, an AI workbench for scientists integrating research tools, compute, code, figures, and manuscripts.

Palantir launched an engine for deploying NVIDIA Nemotron open models in sovereign environments.

CoreWeave made W&B Weave’s agent-development capabilities generally available alongside the ARIA preview.