Releases

Reuters reported DeepSeek was planning a second fundraising round ahead of a potential mainland IPO. The target valuation is retained as metadata because the round was not completed.

Sierra launched long-horizon agents that orchestrate inbound and outbound interactions over days or weeks using persistent context and planning.

Kimi K3 launched with native vision, agentic capabilities and a one-million-token context window.

Moonshot introduced Kimi K3, its 2.8T-parameter native multimodal frontier model family.

A Chinese stock-exchange filing disclosed an indirect 0.8265% stake and implied a RMB350.88B ($51.82B) company valuation.

Databricks signed a Coatue-led strategic-funding term sheet valuing the company at $188 billion, with proceeds targeted at Unity AI Gateway, Genie and Lakebase.

SpaceXAI added scheduled and trigger-based automations that run jobs and report results.

SpaceXAI introduced Grok 4.5 as its strongest model for coding, agentic tasks and knowledge work, trained alongside Cursor.

argenx gained early access to Chai's AI platform for de novo antibody discovery in immunology.

Fireworks reported serving more than 40 trillion tokens per day, over 95% from customer-specialized models.

Fireworks disclosed that annualized revenue run rate had surpassed $1 billion.

Fireworks AI raised a $1.505 billion Series D led by Atreides Management, Index Ventures, and TCV.

Synthesia announced that its latest EXPRESS-3 model powered the new Interactive Avatar API's real-time photorealistic and style avatars.

Synthesia launched a BYO-stack API for embedding real-time, interruptible, multilingual, action-capable avatars in applications.

Lovable added support for publishing Lovable-built applications for use inside ChatGPT, Claude, and compatible AI tools.

Thinking Machines published Inkling's full weights and made the model available for customization through Tinker.

Thinking Machines released Inkling, a 975B-total-parameter multimodal mixture-of-experts model with 41B active parameters and up to a one-million-token context window.

Perplexity launched secure isolated sandboxes for agent code execution and tool use.

SpaceXAI open-sourced the Grok Build coding-agent harness and terminal user interface.

NVIDIA introduced an edge-optimized Cosmos 3 model for real-time physical AI systems.

Chai Discovery raised a $400 million Series C led by Index Ventures.

Cognition reported that its combined team grew from 44 to 350 people in the year after joining with Windsurf.

Nebius agreed to supply approximately $1 billion of AI compute capacity to Reflection.

Cohere Labs documented the Tiny Aya family and community applications for compact open multilingual AI.

Listen added conversational MaxDiff testing for prioritizing concepts, messages, and product options.