Releases

Meta and EssilorLuxottica introduced performance-focused Oakley Meta HSTN AI glasses.

Harvey and LexisNexis partnered to integrate primary law, Protégé, and Shepard's citations and co-develop legal workflows.

Midjourney released its first image-to-video model to the full community.

Databricks introduced managed Model Context Protocol servers for Unity Catalog functions, Genie spaces and AI Search indexes.

Google introduces Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite as a high-throughput, low-cost model in preview.

Google makes Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash generally available for developers and enterprises.

Cursor introduced the $200-per-month Ultra tier for power users with substantially higher usage.

Moonshot released a 72B software-engineering model optimized using reinforcement learning.

Runway released an MCP server for connecting compatible AI agents to generation tools.

Databricks introduced a simplified business-user front door to Genie spaces, dashboards and apps.

AI/BI Genie became generally available across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, alongside a new knowledge store and planned Deep Research mode.

Meta made a $14.3 billion strategic investment for a 49% non-voting minority stake in Scale AI, valuing the independent company at over $29 billion and expanding the commercial partnership.

Founder and CEO Alexandr Wang left day-to-day management to join Meta’s AI efforts while remaining a Scale director; Chief Strategy Officer Jason Droege became interim CEO.

Perplexity closed a $500 million financing led by Accel at a $14 billion valuation.

Meta made a $14.3 billion non-voting minority investment in Scale AI and expanded the companies' commercial relationship; Scale was valued above $29 billion.

Disney and Universal filed copyright litigation challenging Midjourney's model training and outputs.

Databricks and Microsoft expanded integration across Azure Databricks, Microsoft 365 and governed enterprise agents.

Databricks released MLflow 3 with unified tracking, evaluation, observability and governance for models and agents.

Databricks introduced Agent Bricks, which generates task-specific data and benchmarks to optimize agents for enterprise use cases.

Databricks introduced Lakebase, a serverless Postgres category designed for operational data and AI agents.

Hugging Face and NVIDIA introduced a managed service for research organizations to access large GPU clusters for foundation-model training.

Perplexity partnered with European model providers to bring additional European AI models to global users.

Mistral AI announced Mistral Compute, a sovereign European AI cloud developed with NVIDIA infrastructure and European partners.

Meta released V-JEPA 2 for video understanding, physical-world prediction and zero-shot robot planning.

NVIDIA expanded DGX Cloud Lepton with European cloud providers, AWS and Azure participation, and Hugging Face training integration.

Replit launched import workflows for turning designs into applications.

Perplexity published work on accelerating Sonar inference through speculative decoding.

Mistral AI released Magistral Small and Magistral Medium, its first reasoning-focused model family.

OpenAI released o3-pro for more reliable reasoning by using additional compute.

Cohere announced work with the UK government to support secure AI adoption and public-sector productivity.

Cohere and the Government of Canada agreed to explore secure generative AI for public-sector operations.

Cursor disclosed more than $500 million in annual recurring revenue and adoption by over half of the Fortune 500.

Cursor raised $900 million at a $9.9 billion valuation from Thrive, Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, and DST.

xAI released a Management API for programmatic API-key administration.

Anthropic expanded access and deployment support for approved US national-security customers.

Perplexity expanded Finance with richer market data and research tools for investors.

Cursor 1.0 introduced one-click MCP server installation and tool connectivity.

Cursor introduced Memories in beta so the editor could retain useful project context and conventions.

Cursor launched BugBot for automated pull-request review and defect detection.

Cursor 1.0 introduced BugBot, general availability of Background Agent, Memories beta, one-click MCP installation, and Jupyter support.

The companies submitted the largest NVIDIA Blackwell MLPerf Training v5.0 cluster and reported record Llama 3.1 405B training performance.

Mistral AI launched Mistral Code, an enterprise coding-assistant platform with IDE integration and deployment controls.

Suno launched extraction of up to twelve vocal and instrumental stems.

Suno launched a waveform-based interface for restructuring and editing songs.

ElevenLabs released Eleven v3 in alpha with richer emotional expression and dialogue control.

Former Meta FAIR head Joelle Pineau joined Cohere as Chief AI Officer to lead research and model development.

Hugging Face released SmolVLA, a 450M vision-language-action model trained for affordable, open robotic manipulation.

Modal introduced interactive notebooks backed by elastic cloud compute.

Modal added snapshots to accelerate reproducible sandbox and agent environments.

Moonshot published a seven-billion-parameter formal theorem-proving model.