Releases

Anthropic launched remote MCP integrations and expanded Claude Research across web, workspace, and connected tools.

DeepSeek released 7B and 671B theorem-proving models and ProverBench.

AWS released its most capable first-generation Nova model with a one-million-token context window.

Microsoft releases Phi-4 Mini Reasoning for efficient step-by-step mathematical reasoning on constrained hardware.

Microsoft releases Phi-4 Reasoning Plus, adding reinforcement learning for stronger and longer reasoning traces.

Microsoft releases Phi-4 Reasoning, a 14-billion-parameter model trained for complex multistep math, science and coding tasks.

Meta launched a standalone personalized AI assistant app built with Llama 4 and connected to meta.ai and AI glasses.

LeRobot introduced the SO-101, a refined low-cost open robot arm for collecting demonstrations and training robotic policies.

Baidu released an enhanced and lower-cost reasoning model.

Baidu released an enhanced ERNIE 4.5 with improved performance and lower pricing.

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

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.

xAI added conversational voice interaction to the standalone Grok experience.

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.

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.

Hugging Face acquired Pollen Robotics, maker of Reachy robots, to accelerate its open-source robotics strategy and connect physical hardware with the LeRobot ecosystem.

OpenAI released GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano in the API with improved coding and instruction following.

Databricks and Google Cloud expanded joint go-to-market and product integrations for Gemini models and enterprise AI.

Google introduces the open Agent2Agent protocol with more than 50 partners to enable interoperable agent collaboration.

Google Cloud releases the open-source Agent Development Kit for building and orchestrating multi-agent systems.

Google Cloud announces Ironwood, its seventh-generation TPU designed for large-scale inference and thinking models.

Anthropic launched Claude Max with substantially higher usage limits for frequent individual users.

IBM introduced z17 with Telum II and support for accelerated enterprise inference.

AWS released a unified speech-to-speech foundation model for low-latency conversational applications.

Meta released a multimodal safety classifier for Llama 4 inputs and outputs.

Meta previewed Behemoth as a teacher model for the Llama 4 family; it was not made generally available.

Meta released Llama 4 Maverick, a natively multimodal mixture-of-experts model for general AI workloads.

Meta released Llama 4 Scout, a natively multimodal mixture-of-experts model with a 10-million-token context window.

Hugging Face reported that Gradio had reached one million monthly users, reflecting its adoption for open AI demos and applications.

Microsoft updates Copilot with personalization through Memory, task execution through Actions, Deep Research and expanded Vision capabilities.

xAI made Grok 3 flagship models generally available through its API.

Anthropic announced its first developer conference focused on building with Claude and Claude Code.

CoreWeave submitted the first cloud-provider MLPerf Inference v5.0 results for NVIDIA GB200, reporting more than 800 tokens per second on Llama 3.1 405B.

Anthropic launched Claude for Education for universities, including a learning mode and institution-wide deployments.

Moonshot published the reasoning-oriented Kimi-VL A3B Thinking checkpoint.

Moonshot published the instruction-tuned Kimi-VL A3B checkpoint.

Moonshot introduced Kimi-VL, an open-weight mixture-of-experts vision-language family.

Baidu officially released version 3.0 of its deep-learning framework.

Baidu deployed its P800 accelerator in AI computing services.

Baidu made access to its latest ERNIE models free on PC and mobile.

Amazon began testing an agentic AI feature that can purchase products from other brands' websites for customers.

Amazon released a browser-use foundation model through the Nova Act research preview.

Amazon introduced Nova Act, a model and SDK for building agents that reliably complete browser-based user-interface tasks.

Anthropic updated its Responsible Scaling Policy to version 2.1.

OpenAI announced $40 billion in new funding led by SoftBank at a $300 billion post-money valuation.

CoreWeave’s Class A common stock began public trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under ticker CRWV.

xAI acquired social network X in an all-stock deal valuing X at $33 billion in equity and xAI at $80 billion, combining data, models, compute and distribution.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.