Releases

Harvey raised $300 million at a $5 billion valuation.

Google transfers the A2A protocol project to the Linux Foundation to support neutral, industry-wide governance.

Decagon raised a $131 million Series C co-led by Accel and Andreessen Horowitz.

Mistral AI released Mistral Small 3.2 with improved instruction following, function calling and reduced repetition.

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

Surge was reported to have grown into a major AI data provider without taking external venture funding.

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.

Applied Intuition announced a $600 million Series F financing and tender offer, comprising primary and secondary capital.

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.

Crusoe announced a collaboration with AMD to bring additional AI cloud infrastructure and accelerated-computing options to market.

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.

Fireworks released a declarative SDK for managing models, deployments, fine-tuning jobs, datasets, and serving strategy.

Fireworks launched its integrated platform for rapid tuning, evaluation, deployment, and online experimentation.

Crusoe secured a $750 million credit facility from Brookfield to accelerate energy-first AI factory development.