Releases

A third OpenAI agreement added up to $6.5 billion, bringing total announced contract value with OpenAI to approximately $22.4 billion.

Perplexity launched a developer Search API exposing its real-time web index, retrieval and content extraction.

xAI expanded its government offering through GSA OneGov, making Grok reasoning models available to U.S. federal employees at negotiated pricing.

Meta launched Vibes, a feed in the Meta AI app and meta.ai for creating, remixing and sharing AI-generated short videos.

Google DeepMind introduces Gemini Robotics 1.5 and an embodied-reasoning model for more capable robot agents.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite becomes generally available for high-volume, latency-sensitive applications.

A second close added $100 million from BDC and Nexxus Capital Management, bringing Cohere's valuation to approximately $7 billion.

Cohere expanded work with AMD across model deployment, compute infrastructure and internal use of North.

Suno released v5 with clearer audio, more natural vocals, creative control, and stronger genre understanding.

OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank announced five new US Stargate data-center sites, moving planned capacity toward nearly 7 gigawatts.

DeepSeek improved language consistency and its code and search agents.

The US General Services Administration added Meta's Llama models to OneGov to support federal-agency AI adoption.

OpenAI and NVIDIA signed a letter of intent to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems, with the first Vera Rubin gigawatt targeted for the second half of 2026.

OpenAI and NVIDIA announced a strategic partnership to deploy at least 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems for OpenAI infrastructure.

Scale released MCP Atlas to evaluate how well AI agents combine tools across real Model Context Protocol servers.

Scale expanded the SEAL Leaderboards into agent evaluation, beginning with SWE-Bench Pro and MCP Atlas.

Scale released a harder, contamination-resistant benchmark using real and commercial repositories to measure software agents on complex multi-file engineering tasks.

xAI released Grok 4 Fast with a 2M-token context window, unified reasoning modes and lower-cost agentic search.

Perplexity expanded its enterprise platform with stronger knowledge connectors, administration and collaborative workflows.

Meta announced an EMG wristband that translates subtle muscle signals into controls for Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses.

Meta announced AI glasses with an in-lens color display for visual Meta AI answers, messages, navigation and captions.

Meta launched second-generation Ray-Ban Meta glasses with longer battery life, 3K video and expanded Meta AI features.

CoreWeave announced an incremental £1.5 billion UK data-center commitment, bringing its stated UK investment to £2.5 billion.

CoreWeave and NVIDIA agreed on a strategic collaboration to scale GPU infrastructure and accelerate AI innovation.

xAI made its stateful Responses API generally available.

Baidu introduced a sparse-attention inference update for faster long-context performance.

OpenAI and Microsoft announced a non-binding memorandum of understanding for the next phase of their partnership, alongside plans for the nonprofit to control a public benefit corporation and hold a substantial equity stake.

Replit released Agent 3 with browser testing, self-repair, and the ability to create agents and automations.

Perplexity raised $200 million at a $20 billion valuation.

OCI Generative AI added beta access to OpenAI's gpt-oss open-weight models.

CoreWeave launched a venture initiative offering capital, compute, and technical expertise to companies building AI infrastructure and applications.

Mistral AI raised €1.7 billion in a Series C led by ASML at an €11.7 billion post-money valuation.

NVIDIA unveiled Rubin CPX, a GPU class designed for massive-context inference, with availability expected by the end of 2026.

ElevenLabs announced a $100 million employee tender offer valuing the company at $6.6 billion.

Databricks announced the close of a $1 billion Series K at a valuation above $100 billion.

Databricks disclosed that its AI products had exceeded a $1 billion annual revenue run-rate.

Perplexity launched a secure government offering with public-sector procurement and deployment options.

Moonshot released a K2 checkpoint with improved coding, instruction following and long-context performance.

Moonshot launched Kimi Agent alongside the updated K2 model experience.

Anthropic agreed to a proposed $1.5 billion settlement with authors and publishers over pirated copies of books used in model development.

Warner Bros. Discovery filed a copyright lawsuit against Midjourney.

Google releases EmbeddingGemma, an open multilingual embedding model optimized for on-device retrieval.

Replit introduced a read-only planning mode for safer collaboration with Agent.

CoreWeave entered an agreement to acquire OpenPipe and add reinforcement-learning post-training for AI agents to its developer platform.

Mistral AI introduced persistent memory capabilities for agents and applications.

Le Chat added custom MCP-server support, enterprise connectors and persistent memories.

Amazon introduced real-time visual product recognition and matching in the shopping app.

Anthropic completed a $13 billion Series F led by ICONIQ at a $183 billion post-money valuation.

Runway expanded node-based workflows for multi-stage media generation and post-production.

Scale updated its mission to developing reliable AI systems for the world’s most important decisions, reflecting its expansion from data infrastructure into applications and evaluation.