Releases

Scale reported that 2025 was its strongest financial year, with more than $1 billion in new business, profitable data operations, and accelerating applications and government work.

OpenEvidence reported daily active use by more than 40% of U.S. physicians across over 10,000 hospitals and medical centers.

OpenEvidence reported surpassing $100 million in annual revenue.

OpenEvidence raised $250 million in a Series D co-led by Thrive Capital and DST Global.

Accenture and Palantir expanded their partnership around sovereign AI transformation and operating systems.

Skild AI raised $1.4 billion in a Series C led by SoftBank with participation from NVentures, Macquarie Capital, Bezos Expeditions and existing investors.

Deutsche Telekom and ElevenLabs partnered on enterprise voice-AI deployments.

Google releases FunctionGemma, a compact open model specialized for function calling and on-device agent workflows.

Anthropic expanded Labs as a dedicated team for incubating experimental products at the frontier of Claude's capabilities.

Anthropic released Cowork as a research preview, bringing Claude's agentic capabilities to desktop work across files and applications.

Anthropic introduced HIPAA-ready Claude tools and resources for healthcare providers, payers, health-tech companies, and individuals, alongside expanded life-sciences capabilities.

Midjourney and Spellbrush released Niji V7 with improved coherency, line work, and prompt adherence.

ElevenLabs released Scribe v2 with improved multilingual transcription and audio understanding.

Cursor CLI added model selection, MCP management, rules support, and renamed its main command to agent.

Perplexity launched a specialized offering for public-safety organizations.

xAI closed an upsized $20 billion Series E, above its $15 billion target; contemporaneous reporting placed the company’s valuation at more than $230 billion.

CoreWeave announced it would extend its cloud platform with NVIDIA’s Rubin architecture for the next generation of AI training and inference.

NVIDIA released Cosmos Transfer 2.5, Predict 2.5 and Reason 2, updated GR00T N1.6, and introduced Jetson T4000.

Baidu announced a proposed spin-off and separate listing of its Kunlunxin AI-chip business.

Third-party database count of verified companies using IBM watsonx.

Lower-bound adoption proxy based on five major customers publicly named in 2026 reporting: OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, Mistral and IBM.

Estimated DeepSeek workforce using its published company-size range; exact headcount is not disclosed.

Secondary-source estimate of Anthropic's 2026 workforce.

Shield AI documented its AI analytics platform for scoring and visualizing flight maneuvers.

OpenEvidence reported supporting approximately 18 million clinical consultations from verified U.S. healthcare professionals during December 2025.

Crusoe's 2025 impact report said the company grew to 1,217 employees, more than doubling headcount for a second consecutive year.

Palantir customer count reported for year-end 2025.

Amazon reported that 250 million customers used Rufus during 2025.

Palantir employee count reported for year-end 2025.

Meta employee count reported for year-end 2025.

IBM reported 264,300 employees in wholly owned subsidiaries and 8,700 in less-than-wholly-owned subsidiaries.

Alphabet employee count reported for year-end 2025.

CoreWeave employee count reported in its 2025 Form 10-K.

Baidu-reported employee count at year-end 2025.

Amazon reported approximately 1,576,000 full- and part-time employees as of December 31, 2025.

CoreWeave had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $35.7 billion as of Dec 31, 2025 (NASDAQ: CRWV), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Baidu had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $44.9 billion as of Dec 31, 2025 (NASDAQ: BIDU), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

IBM had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $276.9 billion as of Dec 31, 2025 (NYSE: IBM), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Palantir had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $423.7 billion as of Dec 31, 2025 (NASDAQ: PLTR), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Meta had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $1.664 trillion as of Dec 31, 2025 (NASDAQ: META), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Amazon had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $2.468 trillion as of Dec 31, 2025 (NASDAQ: AMZN), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Alphabet had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $3.781 trillion as of Dec 31, 2025 (NASDAQ: GOOGL), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Microsoft had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $3.594 trillion as of Dec 31, 2025 (NASDAQ: MSFT), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Moonshot completed a reported $500 million financing at a $4.3 billion valuation.

CoreWeave ended 2025 with 43 active data centers, more than 850 MW of active power, and approximately 3.1 GW of contracted power.

xAI published its frontier-AI risk-management framework covering capability evaluation, safeguards and model development practices.

NVIDIA market capitalisation at end of calendar year 2025, up 38% year-over-year. NVIDIA remained the world's most valuable public company, sustained by record data centre AI GPU demand.

xAI launched secure team and enterprise Grok plans with no training on customer data, team administration, SSO and SCIM options.

xAI launched an expanded production Collections API for retrieval-augmented generation directly within the Grok API.

xAI announced selection to deliver frontier AI capabilities for the U.S. Department of War.

Graphite entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Cursor while initially continuing to operate its code-review platform independently.

Lovable raised a $330 million Series B led by CapitalG and Menlo Ventures' Anthology fund.

Anthropic and the US Department of Energy announced a multi-year partnership supporting energy, life-sciences, and scientific-productivity work across national laboratories.

OpenAI released GPT-5.2-Codex, an agentic coding model optimized for long-horizon software engineering.

Mistral AI released Mistral OCR 3 with improved document parsing and structured extraction.

xAI launched its Voice Agent API for developers building real-time conversational voice systems.

Google launches Gemini 3 Flash as a fast, production-oriented model in the Gemini 3 family.

OpenAI opened app submissions and launched an app directory in ChatGPT.

Databricks announced it was raising more than $4 billion in Series L equity financing at a $134 billion valuation.

Meta released a unified multimodal model for separating sounds from complex mixtures using natural prompts.

NVIDIA introduced Nemotron 3 Nano, Super and Ultra open models and companion reinforcement-learning and evaluation tools.

Tinker became generally available with vision input, Kimi K2 Thinking support and an OpenAI-compatible sampling interface.

Harvey delivered major performance, personalization, multimodal, and workflow integration upgrades across Assistant and Vault.

Cohere launched Rerank 4, its fourth-generation retrieval model family in Pro and Fast tiers.

xAI and El Salvador announced a nationwide AI education program using Grok in the country’s schools.

OpenAI released GPT-5.2 with improvements for professional knowledge work and long-context tasks.

CoreWeave expanded Mission Control with Telemetry Relay entering GA, GPU Straggler Detection in preview, and the Mission Control Agent in preview.

Mistral AI launched Vibe CLI, an agentic command-line coding environment powered by Devstral.

Mistral AI released Devstral 2, its second-generation open code-agent model.

Anthropic donated MCP to the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation while retaining its open, community-driven governance model.

The New York Times filed suit alleging copyright infringement involving Perplexity's search and answer products.

Meta announced content partnerships to bring more real-time news and information into Meta AI responses.

Palantir, NVIDIA, and CenterPoint Energy launched Chain Reaction to coordinate AI infrastructure and critical supply chains.

Perplexity released BrowseSafe research on detecting and mitigating threats in AI browsers.

Mistral AI released the Mistral 3 generation, including open-weight Mistral Large 3 and Ministral 3 models in 3B, 8B and 14B sizes.

AWS and NVIDIA announced infrastructure for deploying integrated AI factories in customers' own data centers.

AWS announced policy controls and automated evaluations for production AI agents.

AWS expanded Amazon Connect with production agentic AI for customer-service interactions.

AWS introduced a frontier agent for investigating and resolving cloud operational incidents.

AWS launched 3nm Trainium3-powered EC2 UltraServers for model training and inference.

AWS launched a service for organizations to create customized frontier models using Nova checkpoints and training infrastructure.

AWS released a unified embedding model for text, documents, images, video and audio.

AWS released its second-generation speech-to-speech foundation model.

AWS introduced a unified multimodal reasoning and image-generation model in preview.

AWS introduced its most intelligent Nova 2 model for complex multistep tasks in preview.

AWS released a fast multimodal reasoning model with extended thinking, built-in tools and a one-million-token context window.

Runway released Gen-4.5 with improved visual fidelity, motion quality, and prompt adherence.

Baidu integrated Wenku and Baidu Drive into a new group focused on AI application innovation.

DeepSeek offered a temporary high-compute reasoning endpoint until December 15.

DeepSeek upgraded chat and reasoner services to the production V3.2 model.

Qatar’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology launched the Arabic-first ALIF AI fluency program with Scale AI for government professionals.

Transformers v5 entered release candidate with simplified model definitions, standardized attention interfaces, and support for more than 400 architectures.

AWS expanded Transform to modernize application, database and user-interface layers of Windows workloads.

Oracle had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $575.7 billion as of Nov 30, 2025 (NYSE: ORCL), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

DeepSeek released its self-verifiable mathematical reasoning model.

Cohere and SAP expanded collaboration to offer sovereign AI solutions for European customers.

Perplexity introduced persistent memory for AI assistants to personalize future interactions.

Suno and Warner Music Group partnered on licensed next-generation music models and artist experiences.

Perplexity relaunched Shopping as a free personalized conversational shopping experience with native purchasing.

AWS announced plans to invest up to $50 billion to expand AI and high-performance-computing infrastructure for US government customers.