Releases

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.

Baseten raised a $75 million Series C co-led by IVP and Spark Capital to expand mission-critical AI inference infrastructure.

xAI unveiled Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini with reasoning modes, DeepSearch and Think capabilities trained on Colossus.

Microsoft Research and Xbox introduce Muse, a generative world and action model trained on gameplay sequences.

At launch, Thinking Machines Lab was reported to have approximately 30 employees, including a number of former OpenAI researchers and engineers.

Mira Murati publicly introduced Thinking Machines Lab and its mission to build AI systems that are more understandable, customizable and collaborative.

Perplexity released R1 1776, an open-weight post-trained version of DeepSeek-R1 intended to reduce censorship while retaining reasoning capability.

Abridge reported deployments at more than 100 U.S. health systems.

Abridge introduced a contextual reasoning architecture that combines conversations, historical patient context, documentation preferences and revenue-cycle requirements.

Abridge raised $250 million in a Series D co-led by Elad Gil and IVP to expand AI capabilities and commercial deployments.

Mistral AI reported one million Le Chat mobile app downloads; downloads are an adoption proxy, not unique active users.