Releases

IBM completed the HashiCorp acquisition, adding Terraform and Vault to its hybrid-cloud and AI platform.

Anthropic launched a public Transparency Hub describing its safety, governance, security, and responsible-deployment practices.

OpenAI released GPT-4.5 as a research preview in ChatGPT and the API.

ElevenLabs launched transcription powered by Scribe.

ElevenLabs released Scribe, its first major speech-to-text model.

IBM released updated compact time-series models for long-range forecasting.

IBM updated its open safety model for detecting risks in prompts and responses.

IBM released a compact vision-language model for document and chart understanding.

IBM released the 8B Granite 3.2 model with controllable reasoning capabilities.

IBM released the 2B Granite 3.2 model with controllable reasoning capabilities.

Amazon announced a generative-AI version of Alexa with natural conversation, personalization and agentic task completion.

Microsoft releases Phi-4 Multimodal, a 5.6-billion-parameter model jointly processing speech, vision and text.

Microsoft releases Phi-4 Mini, a compact long-context language model with multilingual and function-calling capabilities.

Lovable announced $15 million in additional early-stage funding to expand its European team and product.

Replit released Agent 2 with real-time application design preview.

IBM agreed to acquire DataStax to add vector data, Astra DB and Langflow capabilities to watsonx.

Perplexity announced a $50 million venture fund to invest in early-stage AI startups.

Anthropic introduced Claude Code as a terminal-based agentic coding tool in limited research preview.

Anthropic released Claude 3.7 Sonnet, its first hybrid reasoning model with standard and extended-thinking modes.

Scale entered a five-year partnership with Qatar’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology to deploy AI applications, analytics, automation, and workforce programs across government.

Bloomberg reported, citing a person familiar with the matter, that Together AI had recently surpassed $100 million in annualized revenue, up from $30 million in February 2024, as it raised $305 million at a $3.3 billion valuation.

Together AI reported that its AI Acceleration Cloud was used by more than 450,000 developers.

Together AI raised a $305 million Series B led by General Catalyst and co-led by Prosperity7.

OpenEvidence raised $75 million in a Series A led by Sequoia Capital.

Hugging Face released SmolVLM2 at 256M, 500M, and 2.2B parameters with support for video understanding as well as images and text.