Releases

Microsoft AI announces MAI-Voice-2 Flash as a lower-cost, ultra-efficient speech-generation variant.

Microsoft AI launches MAI-Voice-2 with natural multilingual speech generation and safeguarded short-sample voice adaptation.

Microsoft AI launches MAI-Transcribe-1.5 with high-speed transcription and support for domain terminology across 43 languages.

Microsoft AI launches a lower-cost, latency-optimized Flash variant of MAI-Image-2.5.

Microsoft AI launches MAI-Image-2.5 for high-fidelity text-to-image generation and controllable image editing.

Microsoft AI launches MAI-Code-1-Flash, an efficient agentic coding model integrated into GitHub Copilot and VS Code.

Microsoft AI launches MAI-Thinking-1, its flagship in-house reasoning model for complex instructions, mathematics and coding.

Microsoft AI introduces Frontier Tuning, using reinforcement-learning environments to adapt MAI models to organization-specific workflows.

Microsoft introduces Agent 365 as the trust, management and observability layer for enterprise AI agents.

Microsoft IQ becomes generally available across GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Foundry and Copilot Studio as an enterprise context layer for agents.

Microsoft introduces an integrated enterprise agent platform spanning GitHub, Foundry, Microsoft IQ, Copilot Studio, security and governance.

Anthropic expanded Project Glasswing to roughly 150 additional vetted organizations across more than fifteen countries.

OpenAI expanded Codex with reusable plugins and a Sites workflow for building and publishing complete web experiences.

NVIDIA reported a CUDA-X developer ecosystem of more than six million developers.

Alphabet reported 900 million monthly users for Gemini.

Estimated Moonshot AI workforce in 2026.

Runway introduced real-time conversational AI characters and avatars.

Harvey introduced LAB, its benchmark for comparing legal-agent quality, practice-area performance, and cost efficiency.

Harvey described the infrastructure built to execute secure legal agents at scale.

Oracle, OpenAI and infrastructure partners marked construction progress on a multi-billion-dollar Michigan AI data-center campus.

Moonshot previewed an intermediate K2-generation model before Kimi K3.

Baidu released an enterprise edition of its general-purpose productivity agent.

SpaceXAI added the Composer 2.5 model option for long-running tasks and complex instruction following in Grok Build.

Anthropic confidentially submitted a draft Form S-1 registration statement to the SEC for a proposed initial public offering; pricing and share count were not yet set.

Oracle employee count reported for fiscal year-end 2026.