Releases

HeyGen released Avatar V, a human-centric avatar model supporting multi-angle consistency, long-form stability, and identity-preserving generation from a 15-second recording.

Meta and CoreWeave announced an expanded $21 billion agreement under which Meta would use CoreWeave Cloud to scale AI inference workloads.

Meta Superintelligence Labs introduced Muse Spark, a multimodal model designed for efficient broad intelligence.

Modal added NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU instances.

Modal opened a beta filesystem API for programmatic sandbox file operations.

Anthropic released Claude Mythos Preview as a gated frontier model for vetted Project Glasswing partners, focusing its advanced cybersecurity capabilities on defensive use.

Anthropic launched Project Glasswing with major technology and infrastructure partners to use frontier AI for defensive cybersecurity and critical-software protection.

Cursor launched a dedicated Agents Window for orchestrating multiple coding agents.

Cursor launched Design Mode for visually iterating on user interfaces with agents.

Cursor 3.0 introduced the Agents Window, parallel work across local, worktree, cloud, and SSH environments, and Design Mode.

Perplexity launched tax research and preparation workflows in Computer.

Microsoft makes MAI-Voice-1 available to developers in Microsoft Foundry with custom-voice support and safety controls.

Microsoft AI launches MAI-Image-2 for faster, higher-quality image generation in Copilot and Microsoft Foundry.

Microsoft AI launches MAI-Transcribe-1 for high-speed multilingual speech-to-text through Microsoft Foundry.

Google releases Gemma 4 open models and makes them available through Google Cloud's AI development stack.

Abridge reportedly raised an additional $316 million extension to its Series E.

Baidu upgraded its self-evolving agent and reported state-of-the-art MLE-Bench performance.

Baidu expanded Miaoda with enterprise and mobile editions and standalone application generation.

Baidu upgraded GenFlow's multi-agent productivity capabilities.

Perplexity launched Computer inside Slack for completing work from shared channel context.

The Information reported in May 2026 that Baseten's annualized revenue tripled from about $200 million to about $600 million during the first quarter of 2026. Baseten later said its revenue had grown 20x over the prior year when announcing its Series F.

The Financial Times reported on 8 April 2026, citing figures it had seen, that Perplexity's estimated annual recurring revenue jumped about 50% in a month to more than $450 million in March after the launch of its Computer agent and usage-based pricing.

Revelio Labs estimated Sierra's workforce at approximately 756 employees in the first quarter of 2026.

Applied Intuition launched Applied Edge, a field-deployable mobile operations center for developing, testing and operating autonomous systems.

A third-party workforce dataset estimated 177 Reflection employees in the first quarter of 2026. This is not a company-reported count.