Releases

Upper90 closed a $225 million credit facility to expand Crusoe Cloud infrastructure.

CoreWeave priced 37.5 million Class A shares at $40 each, with trading under CRWV scheduled to begin on Nasdaq the next day.

Anthropic published interpretability research tracing internal mechanisms underlying multilingual reasoning, planning, and unfaithful explanations.

Krea launched a 3D AI tool that generates assets from text or image inputs and connects them to its wider creative workflow.

Databricks and Anthropic established a partnership to offer Claude models natively through the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform.

Amazon introduced an AI shopping feature that continuously searches for new products matching natural-language interests.

Microsoft announces Analyst, a Microsoft 365 Copilot reasoning agent for data analysis, modeling and report creation.

Microsoft announces Researcher and Analyst as reasoning agents for multistep research and data analysis in Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Google introduces Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental as a thinking model for complex reasoning and coding tasks.

OpenAI launched native image generation in GPT-4o for precise, context-aware image creation and editing.

DeepSeek upgraded V3 with stronger reasoning, coding, writing, search and function calling.

Perplexity proposed combining with TikTok's US operations to create a new American company and make its recommendation system transparent.

Oracle launched tools to build, extend, test, deploy and manage agents for Fusion Applications.

Oracle disclosed a broad portfolio of embedded role-based agents across Fusion applications.

CoreWeave launched S3-compatible AI Object Storage with LOTA caching, exabyte-scale design, and performance targeted at training and inference.

Anthropic launched web search for Claude, enabling current answers with direct citations.

Perplexity improved Sonar, Sonar Pro and reasoning models while reducing API prices.

xAI made its image-generation model available through the developer API.

Meta began rolling out its AI assistant across 41 European countries and 21 overseas territories.

Fireworks added support for NVIDIA NIM microservices and compatible models on its inference platform.

NVIDIA introduced a reference design for AI-enabled enterprise storage and query-agent infrastructure.

NVIDIA introduced personal AI computers for local model prototyping and development.

NVIDIA expanded Cosmos with Reason, Transfer and Predict models plus physical AI data tools.

NVIDIA released GR00T N1, an open foundation model for humanoid robot reasoning and skills.

NVIDIA launched a blueprint for enterprise research agents that reason over business data.

NVIDIA released Nano, Super and Ultra open reasoning models for building agentic AI systems.

NVIDIA launched Dynamo to orchestrate and scale distributed generative AI inference.

NVIDIA introduced a Blackwell Ultra DGX SuperPOD design and Mission Control operations software for AI factories.

NVIDIA announced B300 and GB300 Blackwell Ultra systems optimized for AI reasoning.

Perplexity expanded its SoftBank partnership to launch Enterprise Pro in Japan.

Mistral AI released Mistral Small 3.1, adding multimodal understanding and stronger multilingual capabilities.

xAI acquired AI video-generation startup Hotshot, bringing its team and technology into xAI’s multimodal roadmap.

Baidu released its first deep-thinking reasoning model.

Baidu released its first flagship native multimodal foundation model.

Together launched self-service, single-tenant dedicated endpoints for hosted and custom fine-tuned models.

Databricks and Palantir partnered to combine data intelligence, ontology, and AI application capabilities.

Cohere released the 111B-parameter Command A, optimized for agents, RAG, tool use and multilingual enterprise workloads.

Cohere made Command A weights available for research and private deployment.

AWS made its unified environment for data, analytics, machine learning and generative AI generally available.

Anthropic released API features designed to reduce token use and improve long-running agent workflows.

Databricks enhanced agent evaluation with customizable LLM judges, human review workflows and OpenTelemetry-based MLflow tracing.

Google DeepMind introduces Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robotics-ER for embodied reasoning and robot control.

Google releases Gemma 3, a multimodal and multilingual open-model family designed to run on a single accelerator.

Harvey launched its client-facing agentic platform for professional legal workflows.

Harvey introduced agentic workflows in Assistant for transactional, litigation, financial-services, and other legal work.

Databricks released APIs for embedding Genie conversational analytics into applications, Teams, Slack and SharePoint.

OpenAI released the open-source Agents SDK for orchestrating single- and multi-agent workflows.

OpenAI launched the Responses API as a new foundation for building agentic applications with built-in tools.

CoreWeave entered a long-term agreement to provide AI infrastructure to OpenAI, with a contract value of up to $11.9 billion.

Mosaic AI Gateway added support for OpenAI-compatible external and custom model providers with centralized permissions, routing and monitoring.

Reflection disclosed a $105 million Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and CRV, bringing the announced financing total to $130 million.

Reflection disclosed a $25 million seed financing led by Sequoia Capital and CRV.

Reflection publicly described its plan to pursue superintelligence through autonomous coding systems and reinforcement learning.

Shield AI introduced a reusable autonomy catalog for mission behaviors and components.

EdgeOS became Hivemind Enterprise's production middleware and edge runtime.

Hivemind Commander provided mission planning and control within the Enterprise suite.

Hivemind Forge became the simulation and autonomy-development environment within Hivemind Enterprise.

Shield AI launched Hivemind Enterprise as a complete autonomy-development suite.

Shield AI completed a $240 million strategic financing at a $5.3 billion valuation.

Mistral AI launched its first OCR model and Document AI capabilities for high-quality document parsing.

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.