Releases

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.

Scale formalized a data-engine offering for robotics and embodied AI, covering multimodal collection, annotation, and real-world model improvement.

Oracle had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $464.2 billion as of May 31, 2025 (NYSE: ORCL), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

CoreWeave made eight-GPU NVIDIA HGX B200 Blackwell instances generally available for enterprise AI training and inference.

Perplexity launched Labs for creating reports, spreadsheets, dashboards and lightweight applications from research.

DeepSeek upgraded R1 with stronger reasoning, reduced hallucination and JSON/function-calling support.

Mistral AI released Codestral Embed for semantic retrieval and search across software repositories.

NVIDIA reported Q1 fiscal 2026 revenue of $44.1 billion, up 69% year-over-year and 12% sequentially. Data Center revenue was $39.1 billion (+73% YoY). Net income was $18.8 billion (GAAP). Results included a $4.5 billion charge related to H20 export control restrictions.

Anthropic appointed Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings to its board of directors.

Mistral AI launched the Agents API with persistent agents, tools, orchestration, conversations and built-in connectors.

Replit launched direct visual editing for agent-built applications.

Anthropic activated ASL-3 deployment and security protections alongside the launch of Claude Opus 4.

Anthropic moved Claude Code from research preview to general availability and expanded its integrations.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 for coding, advanced reasoning, and agent workflows.

Perplexity expanded free and paid plan capabilities, including greater access to advanced search, files and models.

Mistral AI and All Hands AI released Devstral Small 1, an open model designed for agentic software engineering.

OpenAI added remote MCP server support, image generation, Code Interpreter, and background mode to the Responses API.

Red Hat introduced an enterprise inference stack based on vLLM for hybrid deployments.

SAP partnered with Perplexity to add real-time web answers to the Joule enterprise assistant.

xAI added live search over supported data sources to API completions.

Google begins broad US rollout of AI Mode in Search and previews agentic and personalized capabilities.

Google previews Gemma 3n, an efficient multimodal open model designed for phones, laptops and edge devices.

Google launches Flow, an AI filmmaking tool using Veo, Imagen and Gemini for cinematic content creation.

Google launches Imagen 4 with Standard, Fast and Ultra variants for higher-quality image generation.

Google launches Veo 3 with synchronized dialogue, sound effects and ambient audio generated with video.

Microsoft introduces Discovery, an agentic AI platform for scientific research and industrial R&D.

Microsoft launches NLWeb, an open MCP-compatible project for adding conversational and agent-accessible interfaces to websites.

Microsoft introduces Copilot Tuning for adapting models and agents to organization-specific data, workflows and expertise.

Microsoft launches Windows AI Foundry as a unified platform for the local and cloud AI developer lifecycle on Windows.

Microsoft makes Azure AI Foundry Agent Service generally available with multi-agent orchestration and open-protocol support.

GitHub launches an asynchronous Copilot coding agent that works in an isolated environment and opens pull requests for review.

NVIDIA announced an AI compute marketplace connecting developers to GPU capacity across global cloud partners.

Runway made Gen-4 Image available through its developer platform.

xAI disclosed that an unauthorized system-prompt change caused Grok to inject unrelated claims about South African racial politics; it published prompts and announced stronger review and monitoring controls.

AWS open-sourced a model-driven SDK for building AI agents.

OpenAI launched a cloud software-engineering agent capable of working on multiple coding tasks in parallel.

CoreWeave expanded its OpenAI infrastructure agreement by up to $4 billion, increasing the relationship’s contracted value.

AWS launched agentic AI services for modernizing .NET, VMware and mainframe workloads.

Databricks agreed to acquire serverless Postgres company Neon to create Lakebase for AI applications and agents.

Google DeepMind introduces AlphaEvolve, a Gemini-powered evolutionary coding agent for algorithm discovery and optimization.

Replit launched prompt-configurable authentication and user management.

The Joint Commission and Palantir announced an AI partnership focused on healthcare quality and safety.

Perplexity partnered with Wiley to make trusted educational content available through AI-powered search.

Mistral AI released Mistral Medium 3 for enterprise workloads, combining frontier performance with lower serving cost.

Mistral AI launched Le Chat Enterprise with administration, connectors, deployment controls and enterprise governance.

Amazon introduced a generative-AI model for coordinating robot fleets and improving fulfillment-center travel efficiency.

Amazon unveiled its first fulfillment robot with a sense of touch for handling items in densely packed storage.

Anthropic released a web search tool for developers building Claude-powered applications.

Harvey upgraded Draft Mode with a reasoning model for longer, more accurate legal drafting.

Harvey refreshed Assist Mode with workflow-aware chat, thinking states, and knowledge-source suggestions.

Harvey introduced curated internal knowledge bases within Vault.

xAI, TWG Global, and Palantir formed a partnership to deploy AI products and workflows across financial services.

IBM introduced a conversational business-intelligence product grounded in enterprise semantics.

IBM introduced a catalog with more than 150 partner and IBM agents and tools.

IBM expanded watsonx Orchestrate with agent creation, multi-agent orchestration and integrations across business applications.

CoreWeave completed its acquisition of Weights & Biases, creating an end-to-end AI cloud spanning infrastructure, model development, and evaluation.

Anthropic launched a program providing API credits to researchers pursuing high-impact scientific projects.

Suno released v4.5 with richer vocals, genre accuracy, and improved prompt interpretation.

Cursor expanded access to Background Agent for asynchronous remote coding work.

Modal released the 1.0 generation of its Python client and SDK.

Moonshot published the seven-billion-parameter Kimi-Audio checkpoint.

Moonshot introduced an open audio-language model family covering audio understanding and generation.

Hugging Face began broad deployment of Xet-based storage and transfers across Hub repositories, bringing deduplication and faster large-file operations.

Anthropic launched remote MCP integrations and expanded Claude Research across web, workspace, and connected tools.

DeepSeek released 7B and 671B theorem-proving models and ProverBench.

AWS released its most capable first-generation Nova model with a one-million-token context window.

Microsoft releases Phi-4 Mini Reasoning for efficient step-by-step mathematical reasoning on constrained hardware.

Microsoft releases Phi-4 Reasoning Plus, adding reinforcement learning for stronger and longer reasoning traces.

Microsoft releases Phi-4 Reasoning, a 14-billion-parameter model trained for complex multistep math, science and coding tasks.

Meta launched a standalone personalized AI assistant app built with Llama 4 and connected to meta.ai and AI glasses.

LeRobot introduced the SO-101, a refined low-cost open robot arm for collecting demonstrations and training robotic policies.

NVIDIA had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $2.709 trillion as of Apr 27, 2025 (NASDAQ: NVDA), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Baidu released an enhanced and lower-cost reasoning model.

Baidu released an enhanced ERNIE 4.5 with improved performance and lower pricing.

Perplexity partnered with Motorola to pre-install its app and integrate Perplexity Assistant into Moto AI on new devices.

Microsoft begins rolling out its Wave 2 spring release with Researcher, Analyst, Agent Store, richer creation and expanded enterprise search.

OpenAI released its native multimodal image-generation model gpt-image-1 through the API.

xAI added conversational voice interaction to the standalone Grok experience.

Anthropic joined Palantir FedStart to accelerate deployment of Claude capabilities to U.S. government customers.

Meta released vision encoders for images and video designed to support recognition, localization and multimodal systems.

Google introduces Gemini 2.5 Flash with hybrid reasoning and controls over how much the model thinks.

IBM added the Granite 3.3 8B instruction model to watsonx.ai and open distribution channels.

IBM added the Granite 3.3 2B instruction model to watsonx.ai and open distribution channels.

Modal raised asynchronous function-call input capacity to one million items.

OpenAI released Codex CLI, an open-source coding agent that runs in the terminal.

OpenAI released o4-mini, a smaller reasoning model optimized for fast, cost-efficient reasoning.

OpenAI released o3, a reasoning model with strong performance across coding, mathematics, science, and visual tasks.

Cohere introduced Embed 4 for multimodal retrieval across text, images and complex enterprise documents in more than 100 languages.

xAI launched Grok Studio, a browser workspace for drafting documents, writing code and building projects with Grok.

Anthropic launched Research for multi-step cited investigation across the web and Google Workspace.

Hugging Face acquired Pollen Robotics, maker of Reachy robots, to accelerate its open-source robotics strategy and connect physical hardware with the LeRobot ecosystem.

OpenAI released GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano in the API with improved coding and instruction following.

Databricks and Google Cloud expanded joint go-to-market and product integrations for Gemini models and enterprise AI.

Google introduces the open Agent2Agent protocol with more than 50 partners to enable interoperable agent collaboration.

Google Cloud releases the open-source Agent Development Kit for building and orchestrating multi-agent systems.