Releases

Cohere acquired biopharma AI specialist Reliant AI, adding its research team, biomedical datasets and domain technology to North for Pharma.

Google expands Antigravity with new capabilities and integration into Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.

Google introduces Gemini Omni, a native multimodal model family designed to accept and generate across multiple media, beginning with video.

Google launches Gemini 3.5 Flash across Google AI Studio, Antigravity and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.

Baidu reported AI Cloud Infrastructure revenue of RMB8.8B for Q1 2026, up 79% year over year.

Anthropic acquired Stainless, an SDK and MCP server tooling company that had powered generation of Anthropic's official SDKs.

Scale marked its tenth anniversary, reporting more than 700 customers served, 15 billion human decisions applied to model development, work across 150 languages and locales, and over $1 billion paid to contributors.

Perplexity added data analysis, coding and visualization workflows for business teams to Computer.

CoreWeave launched secure isolated sandboxes for reinforcement learning, agent tool use, and model evaluation at scale.

Perplexity published details of the security architecture and safeguards built into Computer.

Artificial Analysis data placed CoreWeave first for Kimi K2.6 inference throughput and price-performance among evaluated providers.

Baidu released a more compact flagship model with stronger agents, reasoning and creative abilities.

Argyll and SambaNova partnered to launch a sovereign AI cloud for UK customers using SambaNova inference systems.

Scale completed SWE Atlas by adding Test Writing and Refactoring alongside Codebase QnA, producing a 284-task software-engineering evaluation suite.

Perplexity broadened Personal Computer availability to all users on Mac.

Axios reported Scale AI had more than 1,300 employees; value is recorded as a lower bound.

The U.S. defense department increased the potential ceiling of its Scale production agreement from $100 million to $500 million following rapid adoption across military components.

Perplexity added structured financial search and retrieval to the Agent API.

SpaceXAI added deep app connectors to Grok, followed by persistent Skills for documents, decks, spreadsheets and workflows.

SpaceXAI agreed to provide Anthropic access to Colossus 1, with both companies also expressing interest in multi-gigawatt orbital AI compute.

The former xAI operation ceased functioning as a separate company and was folded into SpaceX as its AI division, using the SpaceXAI identity.

Anthropic agreed to use all compute capacity at SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center, adding more than 300 megawatts and over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs.

Glean added proactive task management, Skills, real-time voice, Canvas revision review and a shared Library to its enterprise AI coworker experience.

Harvey launched more than 500 ready-to-use legal agents across major practice areas.

ElevenLabs reported surpassing $500 million in annual recurring revenue during the first four months of 2026.

IBM announced an agentic control plane for deploying and governing agents from multiple sources.

Perplexity launched specialized professional-finance workflows in Computer.

Perplexity added premium clinical and health-information sources to its health experience.

Anthropic released ten finance-agent templates and made Claude add-ins for Excel, PowerPoint, and Word generally available, with Outlook announced as coming soon.

Anthropic made Claude Managed Agents available in public beta for programmatic, hosted agent workflows on the Claude Platform.

Sierra reported serving more than 40% of the Fortune 50, with agents on its platform powering billions of customer interactions.

Sierra raised $950 million from new and existing investors led by Tiger Global and GV.

Perplexity launched Computer inside Microsoft Teams.

Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs announced a new AI services company focused on deploying Claude at mid-sized enterprises.

Scale signed a memorandum of understanding with the U.S. Department of Energy to explore AI-ready scientific data infrastructure, evaluations, and model applications for the Genesis Mission.

Anthropic disclosed that annualized run-rate revenue had crossed $47 billion earlier in May 2026.

Sacra estimates Replit hit $525 million in annualized revenue in April 2026, up from $300 million at the end of 2025. Third-party estimate; Replit has not disclosed current revenue and says only that it is on track for $1 billion in ARR by the end of 2026.

Moonshot AI's annual recurring revenue surpassed $200 million in April 2026 as subscription and API revenue accelerated, according to the adviser statement accompanying its roughly $2 billion funding round announced on 7 May 2026.

Cursor described its continuously improving agent harness and the feedback loops used to develop coding agents.

CoreWeave added guided self-service and SUNK Anywhere so research teams could deploy production-grade Slurm-on-Kubernetes training on CoreWeave and other clouds.

CoreWeave launched private cross-cloud networking alongside SUNK Anywhere and LOTA Cross-Cloud to simplify distributed AI workloads.

LOTA Cross-Cloud extended CoreWeave’s local object-transport acceleration to data held outside CoreWeave regions.

Perplexity expanded Computer with connected workplace applications and enterprise workflows.

SpaceXAI launched voice cloning from short recordings for text-to-speech and voice-agent APIs.

ElevenLabs launched ElevenMusic as a dedicated music-creation application.

IBM published the 8B base and instruct Granite 4.1 models.

IBM published the 30B base and instruct Granite 4.1 models.

IBM published the 3B base and instruct Granite 4.1 models.

IBM released Granite 4.1 language, vision, speech, embedding and Guardian models under Apache 2.0.

AWS expanded Quick with a desktop application, Free and Plus plans, visual-asset generation and new integrations.

AWS announced a managed OpenAI-powered agent runtime integrated with Bedrock and AWS controls.

AWS and OpenAI expanded their partnership to offer OpenAI frontier models through Amazon Bedrock in limited preview.

NVIDIA released an open multimodal model unifying vision, audio and language for efficient agents.

Lovable released native mobile applications for iOS and Android.

Palantir renamed AIP Agent Studio to AIP Chatbot Studio and continued expanding governed agent-building capabilities.

Mistral AI opened Workflows in public preview, enabling visual composition of enterprise AI agents and automations.

Meta agreed to deploy tens of millions of AWS Graviton cores for CPU-intensive agentic AI workloads.

OpenAI and Microsoft announce the next phase of their partnership with amended commercial terms.

OpenAI and Microsoft announced the next phase of their partnership with amended commercial terms.

NVIDIA had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $5.060 trillion as of Apr 26, 2026 (NASDAQ: NVDA), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

OpenAI discontinued the standalone Sora product as its video strategy shifted to newer experiences and models.

The efficient V4 Flash preview became available through DeepSeek's API.

DeepSeek introduced the V4 family through Pro and Flash preview API models.

The V4 Pro preview became available through OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible interfaces.

Cohere and Aleph Alpha announced plans to combine into a transatlantic sovereign-AI company operating as Cohere; completion remained subject to approvals.

Reflection's CEO confirmed the company had closed a $2.5 billion Series C financing to fund open-weight frontier-model development and compute commitments.

SpaceXAI released its first named Think Fast speech-to-speech voice-agent model.

OpenAI released GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro as upgraded frontier models for complex knowledge work and reasoning.

Perplexity published its approach to building and evaluating accuracy in frontier AI systems.

Google Cloud announces that future Vertex AI services and roadmap evolution will be delivered through Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.

Google Cloud launches Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform as the evolution of Vertex AI for building, scaling and governing AI agents.

Synthesia opened or expanded offices in Austin, Berlin, Paris, and Zurich and said enterprise contracts over $100,000 had tripled over twelve months.

Anthropic committed more than $100 billion to AWS over ten years for up to five gigawatts of Trainium capacity; Amazon committed $5 billion immediately and up to $20 billion more.

OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.0 with stronger world knowledge, instruction following, detail, and an images-with-thinking mode.

Kimi added agentic presentation and slide creation capabilities.

Kimi expanded its workspace features for producing and editing work artifacts.

Moonshot documented Kimi Researcher as a deep-research workflow within its agent suite.

Kimi expanded its multi-agent swarm system to coordinate parallel specialist agents.

Moonshot released Kimi K2.6 with improved agent capabilities and published model weights.

Scale acquired ICG Solutions and its LUX real-time streaming-data analytics platform to expand its national-security AI stack; ICG initially remained a wholly owned subsidiary.

Anthropic disclosed that annualized run-rate revenue had surpassed $30 billion, up from about $9 billion at the end of 2025.

Amazon made an additional $5 billion investment in Anthropic and said it could invest up to a further $20 billion.

Anthropic committed more than $100 billion over ten years to AWS technologies in an agreement securing up to five gigawatts of compute capacity for Claude.

SpaceXAI announced its speech-to-text and text-to-speech APIs with multilingual support and developer pricing.

Anthropic Labs launched Claude Design for creating polished designs, prototypes, slides, and other visual work.

Physical Intelligence introduced π0.7, a steerable general-purpose robot model with stronger compositional generalization across tasks and embodiments.

Perplexity launched Personal Computer on Mac for local-file, application and browser workflows.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 with improved software engineering, vision, complex multi-step work, and new cybersecurity safeguards.

Abridge partnered with the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA to integrate peer-reviewed evidence shaped by clinical conversations into clinician workflows.

Skild acquired Zebra Technologies' robotics division, formerly Fetch Robotics, including its Symmetry Fulfillment orchestration platform.

OpenAI reported more than 900 million weekly users of ChatGPT.

Baidu released an open-weight 8B DiT text-to-image model.

SpaceXAI launched batch and streaming speech transcription in 25 languages.

Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash Audio for real-time and batch audio understanding and generation.

Midjourney released V8.1 with faster rendering, stronger prompt adherence, and native 2K HD images.

Cursor released Composer 2, a specialized coding model trained for long-horizon agentic software engineering.

Jane Street agreed to purchase $6 billion of CoreWeave AI cloud services and invest $1 billion in CoreWeave equity.

Cursor 3.1 upgraded voice input for directing coding agents.

Cursor 3.1 introduced a tiled multi-agent layout and upgraded voice input.

ElevenLabs introduced local and on-premise deployment options for enterprise voice AI.