Releases

Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs announced a new AI services company focused on deploying Claude at mid-sized enterprises.

HeyGen released HyperFrames as an Apache 2.0 open-source framework for agentic, programmatic video creation.

Scale signed a memorandum of understanding with the U.S. Department of Energy to explore AI-ready scientific data infrastructure, evaluations, and model applications for the Genesis Mission.

Anthropic disclosed that annualized run-rate revenue had crossed $47 billion earlier in May 2026.

Sacra estimates Replit hit $525 million in annualized revenue in April 2026, up from $300 million at the end of 2025. Third-party estimate; Replit has not disclosed current revenue and says only that it is on track for $1 billion in ARR by the end of 2026.

Moonshot AI's annual recurring revenue surpassed $200 million in April 2026 as subscription and API revenue accelerated, according to the adviser statement accompanying its roughly $2 billion funding round announced on 7 May 2026.

Cursor described its continuously improving agent harness and the feedback loops used to develop coding agents.

CoreWeave added guided self-service and SUNK Anywhere so research teams could deploy production-grade Slurm-on-Kubernetes training on CoreWeave and other clouds.

CoreWeave launched private cross-cloud networking alongside SUNK Anywhere and LOTA Cross-Cloud to simplify distributed AI workloads.

LOTA Cross-Cloud extended CoreWeave’s local object-transport acceleration to data held outside CoreWeave regions.

Perplexity expanded Computer with connected workplace applications and enterprise workflows.

SpaceXAI launched voice cloning from short recordings for text-to-speech and voice-agent APIs.

Rogo reported use by more than 35,000 professionals across more than 250 investment banks and investment firms.

Rogo raised $160 million in Series D financing led by Kleiner Perkins, bringing total funding above $300 million.

ElevenLabs launched ElevenMusic as a dedicated music-creation application.

IBM published the 8B base and instruct Granite 4.1 models.

IBM published the 30B base and instruct Granite 4.1 models.

IBM published the 3B base and instruct Granite 4.1 models.

IBM released Granite 4.1 language, vision, speech, embedding and Guardian models under Apache 2.0.

AWS expanded Quick with a desktop application, Free and Plus plans, visual-asset generation and new integrations.

AWS announced a managed OpenAI-powered agent runtime integrated with Bedrock and AWS controls.

AWS and OpenAI expanded their partnership to offer OpenAI frontier models through Amazon Bedrock in limited preview.

NVIDIA released an open multimodal model unifying vision, audio and language for efficient agents.

Lovable released native mobile applications for iOS and Android.

Palantir renamed AIP Agent Studio to AIP Chatbot Studio and continued expanding governed agent-building capabilities.

Mistral AI opened Workflows in public preview, enabling visual composition of enterprise AI agents and automations.

Meta agreed to deploy tens of millions of AWS Graviton cores for CPU-intensive agentic AI workloads.

OpenAI and Microsoft announce the next phase of their partnership with amended commercial terms.

OpenAI and Microsoft announced the next phase of their partnership with amended commercial terms.

NVIDIA had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $5.060 trillion as of Apr 26, 2026 (NASDAQ: NVDA), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

OpenAI discontinued the standalone Sora product as its video strategy shifted to newer experiences and models.

The efficient V4 Flash preview became available through DeepSeek's API.

DeepSeek introduced the V4 family through Pro and Flash preview API models.

The V4 Pro preview became available through OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible interfaces.

Cohere and Aleph Alpha announced plans to combine into a transatlantic sovereign-AI company operating as Cohere; completion remained subject to approvals.

Reflection's CEO confirmed the company had closed a $2.5 billion Series C financing to fund open-weight frontier-model development and compute commitments.

SpaceXAI released its first named Think Fast speech-to-speech voice-agent model.

OpenAI released GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro as upgraded frontier models for complex knowledge work and reasoning.

Listen launched Research Library as a searchable cross-study repository for customer interviews and findings.

Perplexity published its approach to building and evaluating accuracy in frontier AI systems.

Google Cloud announces that future Vertex AI services and roadmap evolution will be delivered through Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.

Google Cloud launches Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform as the evolution of Vertex AI for building, scaling and governing AI agents.

Synthesia opened or expanded offices in Austin, Berlin, Paris, and Zurich and said enterprise contracts over $100,000 had tripled over twelve months.

Anthropic committed more than $100 billion to AWS over ten years for up to five gigawatts of Trainium capacity; Amazon committed $5 billion immediately and up to $20 billion more.

OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.0 with stronger world knowledge, instruction following, detail, and an images-with-thinking mode.

Kimi added agentic presentation and slide creation capabilities.

Kimi expanded its workspace features for producing and editing work artifacts.

Moonshot documented Kimi Researcher as a deep-research workflow within its agent suite.

Kimi expanded its multi-agent swarm system to coordinate parallel specialist agents.

Moonshot released Kimi K2.6 with improved agent capabilities and published model weights.

Scale acquired ICG Solutions and its LUX real-time streaming-data analytics platform to expand its national-security AI stack; ICG initially remained a wholly owned subsidiary.

Anthropic disclosed that annualized run-rate revenue had surpassed $30 billion, up from about $9 billion at the end of 2025.

Amazon made an additional $5 billion investment in Anthropic and said it could invest up to a further $20 billion.

Anthropic committed more than $100 billion over ten years to AWS technologies in an agreement securing up to five gigawatts of compute capacity for Claude.

SpaceXAI announced its speech-to-text and text-to-speech APIs with multilingual support and developer pricing.

Anthropic Labs launched Claude Design for creating polished designs, prototypes, slides, and other visual work.

Physical Intelligence introduced π0.7, a steerable general-purpose robot model with stronger compositional generalization across tasks and embodiments.

Perplexity launched Personal Computer on Mac for local-file, application and browser workflows.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 with improved software engineering, vision, complex multi-step work, and new cybersecurity safeguards.

Abridge partnered with the New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA to integrate peer-reviewed evidence shaped by clinical conversations into clinician workflows.

Skild acquired Zebra Technologies' robotics division, formerly Fetch Robotics, including its Symmetry Fulfillment orchestration platform.

OpenAI reported more than 900 million weekly users of ChatGPT.

Baidu released an open-weight 8B DiT text-to-image model.

SpaceXAI launched batch and streaming speech transcription in 25 languages.

Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash Audio for real-time and batch audio understanding and generation.

Notion added agent skills, lower-cost model choices, credit visibility, enhanced integrations, and Custom Agent-powered database autofill.

Midjourney released V8.1 with faster rendering, stronger prompt adherence, and native 2K HD images.

Cursor released Composer 2, a specialized coding model trained for long-horizon agentic software engineering.

Jane Street agreed to purchase $6 billion of CoreWeave AI cloud services and invest $1 billion in CoreWeave equity.

Rogo launched Sisyphus, an autonomous security system for financial AI infrastructure.

Cursor 3.1 upgraded voice input for directing coding agents.

Cursor 3.1 introduced a tiled multi-agent layout and upgraded voice input.

ElevenLabs introduced local and on-premise deployment options for enterprise voice AI.

CoreWeave announced a multi-year agreement to support development and deployment of Anthropic’s Claude model family.

Perplexity added personal financial-analysis and CFO-style workflows to Computer.

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.