Releases

Google releases EmbeddingGemma, an open multilingual embedding model optimized for on-device retrieval.

Replit introduced a read-only planning mode for safer collaboration with Agent.

CoreWeave entered an agreement to acquire OpenPipe and add reinforcement-learning post-training for AI agents to its developer platform.

Mistral AI introduced persistent memory capabilities for agents and applications.

Le Chat added custom MCP-server support, enterprise connectors and persistent memories.

Amazon introduced real-time visual product recognition and matching in the shopping app.

Anthropic completed a $13 billion Series F led by ICONIQ at a $183 billion post-money valuation.

HeyGen launched Video Agent to produce complete videos from a prompt, including script, visuals, voiceover, avatars, editing, and delivery.

Runway expanded node-based workflows for multi-stage media generation and post-production.

Scale updated its mission to developing reliable AI systems for the world’s most important decisions, reflecting its expansion from data infrastructure into applications and evaluation.

The U.S. defense department awarded Scale a five-year production agreement with an initial $100 million ceiling for data operations, computer vision, GenAI, and Donovan capabilities.

Hugging Face discontinued HUGS model-deployment containers and directed users toward enterprise collections and other deployment paths.

Oracle had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $635.2 billion as of Aug 31, 2025 (NYSE: ORCL), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Anthropic disclosed that annualized revenue had exceeded $5 billion by August 2025.

Oracle opened beta access to Google Vertex AI through OCI Generative AI.

Cohere released its first dedicated machine-translation model, supporting 23 languages and private deployments.

xAI released a speedy and economical reasoning model optimized for agentic coding.

Microsoft AI releases MAI-Voice-1, its first in-house expressive speech-generation model, through Copilot experiences.

Microsoft AI begins public testing of MAI-1 Preview, its first end-to-end internally trained foundation model.

HeyGen made Avatar IV available through its API for programmatic talking-video generation.

Krea launched controllable, frame-consistent real-time video generation from text, painting, webcam, or screen input.

NVIDIA reported Q2 fiscal 2026 revenue of $46.7 billion, up 56% year-over-year and 6% sequentially. Data Center revenue reached $41.1 billion. Net income was $26.4 billion (GAAP). NVIDIA approved an additional $60 billion share repurchase authorization.

Perplexity introduced Comet Plus, a subscription program designed to fund participating publishers and premium content.

xAI and X filed a U.S. federal antitrust suit alleging that Apple and OpenAI conspired to disadvantage rival generative-AI products and Grok in App Store distribution.

NVIDIA began availability of its Blackwell-powered Jetson Thor robotics computer.

xAI released the trained Grok-2 checkpoint for community use under the Grok 2 Community License.

DeepSeek released a hybrid thinking model with improved reasoning efficiency and agent capabilities.

Cohere launched a controllable hybrid reasoning model for complex enterprise agents across 23 languages.

Rogo announced a strategic partnership with LSEG to expand access to financial data in AI workflows.

Clay introduced browser interaction capabilities that let Claygent navigate forms, filters, and interactive data sources.

xAI published the Grok 4 model card covering evaluations, safeguards, abuse potential and dual-use capabilities.

EliseAI disclosed that it had surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue earlier in 2025.

EliseAI reported that full-time headcount had grown from 150 to more than 300 since its Series D.

EliseAI raised a $250 million Series E led by Andreessen Horowitz.

xAI released the Collections API for file upload, embeddings and retrieval-augmented inference.

Cohere announced former Uber executive Francois Chadwick as chief financial officer alongside its funding round.

Radical Ventures and Inovia Capital co-led a $500 million financing with AMD, NVIDIA, PSP, Salesforce Ventures and HOOPP participating.

Perplexity introduced managed Comet browser access for Enterprise Pro customers.

Meta released DINOv3, a scaled self-supervised vision foundation model for high-quality visual features.

Co-founder Igor Babuschkin left xAI to launch an investment firm focused on AI safety research.

Perplexity submitted a nonbinding $34.5 billion offer to acquire Google's Chrome browser; Google had not offered Chrome for sale.

Mistral AI updated its enterprise model tier with Mistral Medium 3.1.

NVIDIA expanded its robotics stack with updated GR00T and Cosmos models and new Omniverse libraries.

Reflection announced a strategy centered on releasing frontier open models and building a scalable commercial model around customizable open intelligence.

Perplexity added OpenAI's GPT-OSS models immediately upon their release.

Rogo added OpenAI's GPT-5 to its model-agnostic financial response engine.

Midjourney introduced higher-definition output for its video model.

OpenAI released GPT-5 across ChatGPT and the API, including mini, nano, and Pro variants.

Chai Discovery raised a $70 million Series A led by Menlo Ventures.

Cohere launched North broadly as its secure, customizable agentic AI platform for enterprises and governments.