Releases

Anthropic upgraded its developer Console with tools for prompt development, evaluation, collaboration, and production deployment.

The U.S. Defense Innovation Unit selected Scale to lead Project Thunderforge with Anduril and Microsoft, integrating AI agents into operational military planning.

Google begins testing AI Mode, a conversational Search experience for complex, multimodal questions and follow-ups.

CoreWeave entered an agreement to acquire Weights & Biases and add experiment tracking, model management, evaluation, and monitoring to its AI cloud platform.

Genspark announced a $100 million Series A alongside its AI search, browser, and agents mobile super app.

Microsoft introduces Dragon Copilot, combining ambient clinical documentation, dictation and healthcare workflow assistance.

Anthropic raised $3.5 billion led by Lightspeed Venture Partners at a $61.5 billion post-money valuation.

The Information put Baseten's annualized revenue at about $30 million in March 2025, a month after its Series C.

Sacra estimates that Perplexity reached $100 million in annual recurring revenue in March 2025, up 59% from $63 million at the end of 2024. Third-party estimate, not a company disclosure.

Moonshot released a preview checkpoint for formal mathematical theorem proving.

Moonshot introduced the Kimina-Prover line of open models for formal theorem proving.

Glean reported surpassing $100 million in annual recurring revenue in its fiscal year, less than three years after launch.

Oracle had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $464.5 billion as of Feb 28, 2025 (NYSE: ORCL), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

IBM completed the HashiCorp acquisition, adding Terraform and Vault to its hybrid-cloud and AI platform.

Anthropic launched a public Transparency Hub describing its safety, governance, security, and responsible-deployment practices.

OpenAI released GPT-4.5 as a research preview in ChatGPT and the API.

ElevenLabs launched transcription powered by Scribe.

ElevenLabs released Scribe, its first major speech-to-text model.

IBM released updated compact time-series models for long-range forecasting.

IBM updated its open safety model for detecting risks in prompts and responses.

IBM released a compact vision-language model for document and chart understanding.

IBM released the 8B Granite 3.2 model with controllable reasoning capabilities.

IBM released the 2B Granite 3.2 model with controllable reasoning capabilities.

Amazon announced a generative-AI version of Alexa with natural conversation, personalization and agentic task completion.

Microsoft releases Phi-4 Multimodal, a 5.6-billion-parameter model jointly processing speech, vision and text.

Microsoft releases Phi-4 Mini, a compact long-context language model with multilingual and function-calling capabilities.

Lovable announced $15 million in additional early-stage funding to expand its European team and product.

Replit released Agent 2 with real-time application design preview.

IBM agreed to acquire DataStax to add vector data, Astra DB and Langflow capabilities to watsonx.

Perplexity announced a $50 million venture fund to invest in early-stage AI startups.

Anthropic introduced Claude Code as a terminal-based agentic coding tool in limited research preview.

Anthropic released Claude 3.7 Sonnet, its first hybrid reasoning model with standard and extended-thinking modes.

Scale entered a five-year partnership with Qatar’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology to deploy AI applications, analytics, automation, and workforce programs across government.

Mercor raised a $100 million Series B led by Felicis.

Bloomberg reported, citing a person familiar with the matter, that Together AI had recently surpassed $100 million in annualized revenue, up from $30 million in February 2024, as it raised $305 million at a $3.3 billion valuation.

Together AI reported that its AI Acceleration Cloud was used by more than 450,000 developers.

Together AI raised a $305 million Series B led by General Catalyst and co-led by Prosperity7.

OpenEvidence raised $75 million in a Series A led by Sequoia Capital.

Hugging Face released SmolVLM2 at 256M, 500M, and 2.2B parameters with support for video understanding as well as images and text.

Baseten raised a $75 million Series C co-led by IVP and Spark Capital to expand mission-critical AI inference infrastructure.

xAI unveiled Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini with reasoning modes, DeepSearch and Think capabilities trained on Colossus.

Microsoft Research and Xbox introduce Muse, a generative world and action model trained on gameplay sequences.

At launch, Thinking Machines Lab was reported to have approximately 30 employees, including a number of former OpenAI researchers and engineers.

Mira Murati publicly introduced Thinking Machines Lab and its mission to build AI systems that are more understandable, customizable and collaborative.

Perplexity released R1 1776, an open-weight post-trained version of DeepSeek-R1 intended to reduce censorship while retaining reasoning capability.

Abridge reported deployments at more than 100 U.S. health systems.

Abridge introduced a contextual reasoning architecture that combines conversations, historical patient context, documentation preferences and revenue-cycle requirements.

Abridge raised $250 million in a Series D co-led by Elad Gil and IVP to expand AI capabilities and commercial deployments.

Mistral AI reported one million Le Chat mobile app downloads; downloads are an adoption proxy, not unique active users.

South Korea's privacy regulator suspended new downloads while reviewing personal-data protections.