Releases

Moonshot released Kimi K2.5, adding native multimodal capabilities and stronger agentic coding.

DeepSeek published its second-generation visual causal-flow OCR model.

Agent Bricks Knowledge Assistant became generally available, powered by instructed retrieval and MLflow evaluation.

Mistral AI expanded Vibe into a fuller agentic development environment for software teams.

Synthesia raised a $200 million Series E to expand its enterprise AI video and workforce-learning platform.

NVIDIA agreed to test and validate CoreWeave’s platform software and reference architectures to accelerate deployment of AI factories.

NVIDIA employee count reported for fiscal year-end 2026.

NVIDIA had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $4.560 trillion as of Jan 25, 2026 (NASDAQ: NVDA), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Scale researchers released LHAW, a framework for generating underspecified long-horizon tasks and evaluating whether agents clarify ambiguity and recover performance.

Lower-bound adoption proxy based on four customer organizations named in the source: RBC, Ensemble Health Partners, SAP and Oracle.

Reported Cohere workforce in January 2026.

Cursor launched reusable Skills for packaging task-specific agent instructions and workflows.

Cursor launched specialized subagents for decomposing and parallelizing complex coding work.

Cursor 2.4 introduced subagents, reusable agent skills, and image generation capabilities.

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.

Cohere told investors in a February 2026 memo obtained by CNBC that it hit $240 million in annual recurring revenue in 2025, beating its $200 million target. Cohere declined to comment on the figure.

Sacra estimates Together AI's annualized revenue was about $618 million at the end of 2025. Third-party estimate, not a company disclosure.

Sacra estimates Replit's annualized revenue was about $300 million at the end of 2025. Third-party estimate, not a company disclosure.

Shield AI told Fortune in March 2026 it expects more than 80% revenue growth in 2026, which Fortune said equates to at least $540 million based on its 2025 revenue, implying about $300 million for 2025. Sacra separately estimates about $300 million for the year ending March 2025.

Baseten's annualized revenue stood at about $200 million at the start of the first quarter of 2026, before tripling during the quarter, according to The Information's May 2026 reporting.

Sacra estimates Applied Intuition hit $830 million in annual recurring revenue in 2025, up about 2x from $415 million in 2024. Third-party estimate, not a company disclosure.

Harvey hit an annual recurring revenue rate of $190 million by the end of 2025, founder and CEO Winston Weinberg shared on LinkedIn, up from $100 million in August 2025.

Scale told Forbes in May 2026 that it tallied just shy of $1 billion in revenue in 2025, up from $870 million in 2024, and expects to top $1 billion in 2026.

CFO Sarah Friar disclosed on 18 January 2026 that OpenAI's ARR grew from $2 billion in 2023 to $6 billion in 2024 and more than $20 billion in 2025.

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.