Releases

Databricks completed $10 billion in equity financing and arranged $5.25 billion in debt facilities at a $62 billion equity valuation.

Google makes an additional $1 billion investment in Anthropic, extending its financial and cloud partnership with the AI developer.

Google reportedly made an additional $1 billion investment in Anthropic, deepening its existing investment and cloud relationship.

Clay acquired Avenue to add intent signals and first-party data capabilities to its GTM platform.

Modal made isolated programmable Sandboxes generally available for agent-generated code.

Modal launched dedicated infrastructure for secure code-interpreting and agent workloads.

Perplexity launched Sonar and made Sonar Pro generally available through its API platform for cited real-time answers.

Microsoft and OpenAI update their partnership structure while preserving Microsoft rights to OpenAI intellectual property and Azure API exclusivity.

OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle, and MGX announced Stargate, a new company intended to invest $500 billion in US AI infrastructure over four years.

Moonshot released Kimi k1.5, a multimodal reasoning model trained with reinforcement learning.

Moonshot introduced its open k-series reasoning work through the Kimi k1.5 release.

DeepSeek released the Llama 70B-based distilled R1 reasoning checkpoint.

DeepSeek released the Llama 8B-based distilled R1 reasoning checkpoint.

DeepSeek released the Qwen 14B-based distilled R1 reasoning checkpoint.

DeepSeek released the Qwen 1.5B-based distilled R1 reasoning checkpoint.

DeepSeek released the Qwen 7B-based distilled R1 reasoning checkpoint.

DeepSeek released the Qwen 32B-based distilled R1 reasoning checkpoint.

DeepSeek published R1 under the MIT License and made it available on web and API.

DeepSeek published its pure reinforcement-learning reasoning checkpoint.

DeepSeek introduced its reinforcement-learning reasoning model family and technical report.

Rogo partnered with Crunchbase to bring private-company and funding intelligence into its AI Analyst.

Physical Intelligence introduced π0-FAST, using efficient FAST action tokenization for autoregressive robot control.

Cursor stated that the editor was used by millions of programmers; value records a conservative two-million lower bound.

Cursor disclosed that annual recurring revenue had surpassed $100 million.

Cursor raised $105 million in Series B funding from Thrive Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Benchmark, and existing investors at a reported $2.6 billion post-money valuation.