Releases

Perplexity partnered with Motorola to pre-install its app and integrate Perplexity Assistant into Moto AI on new devices.

Listen publicly launched its AI-first research platform for recruiting participants, conducting voice interviews, and analyzing results within hours.

Listen introduced an adaptive AI interviewer capable of running thousands of qualitative voice and video interviews in parallel.

Listen disclosed $27 million raised across seed and Series A rounds led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Conviction and Pear VC.

Microsoft begins rolling out its Wave 2 spring release with Researcher, Analyst, Agent Store, richer creation and expanded enterprise search.

OpenAI released its native multimodal image-generation model gpt-image-1 through the API.

Genspark launched an agentic presentation generator that researches, structures, designs, and edits complete slide decks.

Physical Intelligence introduced π0.5, a vision-language-action model focused on open-world generalization and unseen environments.

xAI added conversational voice interaction to the standalone Grok experience.

Together launched a web-based fine-tuning platform with preference optimization, continued training, deployable checkpoints, and weight ownership.

Anthropic joined Palantir FedStart to accelerate deployment of Claude capabilities to U.S. government customers.

Meta released vision encoders for images and video designed to support recognition, localization and multimodal systems.

Google introduces Gemini 2.5 Flash with hybrid reasoning and controls over how much the model thinks.

IBM added the Granite 3.3 8B instruction model to watsonx.ai and open distribution channels.

IBM added the Granite 3.3 2B instruction model to watsonx.ai and open distribution channels.

Modal raised asynchronous function-call input capacity to one million items.

OpenAI released Codex CLI, an open-source coding agent that runs in the terminal.

OpenAI released o4-mini, a smaller reasoning model optimized for fast, cost-efficient reasoning.

OpenAI released o3, a reasoning model with strong performance across coding, mathematics, science, and visual tasks.

Notion launched an AI-powered email client with automatic labeling, contextual drafting, custom views, and scheduling.

Adobe Ventures made a strategic investment in Synthesia as enterprise adoption of AI video accelerated.

Synthesia announced that annual recurring revenue had surpassed $100 million.

Cohere introduced Embed 4 for multimodal retrieval across text, images and complex enterprise documents in more than 100 languages.

xAI launched Grok Studio, a browser workspace for drafting documents, writing code and building projects with Grok.

Anthropic launched Research for multi-step cited investigation across the web and Google Workspace.