Releases

A $55 million employee tender led by DST Global valued Clay at $5 billion.

Genspark updated its workspace around voice-first task delegation and autonomous work completion.

Modal added richer observability and management controls for running Sandboxes.

Modal became available through the AWS and Google Cloud marketplaces.

Cohere launched Model Vault for dedicated, fully managed and isolated model inference.

xAI launched next-generation image and video generation through the Grok Imagine API, alongside a Batch API for high-volume workloads.

Decagon said more than 100 new global enterprise customers joined during its fiscal year.

Decagon raised a $250 million Series D led by Coatue Management and Index Ventures.

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.

Mercor released the open APEX-Agents benchmark for long-horizon professional work; frontier agents completed fewer than 25% of tasks on the initial evaluation.

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.

Krea launched a real-time image editing experience that responds interactively while users paint.

Black Forest Labs released compact FLUX.2 [klein] models for fast and interactive visual generation.

Listen reported a panel of more than 30 million pre-qualified participants across demographics and geographies.

Nine months after launch, Listen reported interviewing more than one million people for hundreds of enterprise customers.

Listen raised a $69 million Series B led by Ribbit Capital, bringing total equity funding to $100 million.

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.

EliseAI highlighted 2025 launches including its Maintenance App, SentimentAI, AI-Guided Tours, Lease Audits, and Fee Transparency Suite.

Chai Discovery and Eli Lilly announced a collaboration to apply AI models to biologics discovery.

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.

Surge launched a catalog of ready-to-license frontier datasets and RL environments covering tool use, professional work, instruction following, and advanced science.