Releases

Baidu released a sparse multimodal reasoning model activating only 3B parameters.

Databricks introduced ai_parse_document for multimodal PDF and document understanding integrated with Agent Bricks, AI Search and AI/BI.

Meta released speech-recognition models covering more than 1,600 languages plus an open corpus for 350 underserved languages.

Moonshot released the reasoning-focused K2 Thinking model for long-horizon agentic tasks.

Perplexity released a redesigned Comet Assistant with improved browsing and task execution.

Google Cloud announces general availability of Ironwood, its seventh-generation TPU for training and inference.

Scale announced expansion across New York, London, Washington, D.C., Doha, and St. Louis to support enterprise, government, and international growth.

AWS and OpenAI announced a seven-year strategic infrastructure agreement for OpenAI workloads using EC2 UltraServers and NVIDIA GPUs.

OpenAI and AWS announced a multi-year strategic partnership under which OpenAI would access AWS compute infrastructure.

Moonshot released its open-source Kimi coding agent and command-line interface.

Perplexity introduced Privacy Snapshot to show users how Comet and its assistant handle data and permissions.

The proposed Core Scientific acquisition was terminated after Core Scientific stockholders did not approve the all-stock merger agreement; the commercial partnership continued.

CoreWeave announced the acquisition of Marimo, creator of an open-source reactive Python notebook, to unify experimentation and production workflows.

Perplexity launched a free AI-powered patent search and analysis experience.

AWS brought online a large Trainium2 compute cluster in Indiana for Anthropic model training.

Amazon announced approximately 14,000 corporate job reductions while restructuring around fewer management layers and increased AI investment.

OpenAI completed a recapitalization establishing OpenAI Group PBC as a public benefit corporation controlled by the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation.

The core Hugging Face Hub Python client reached v1.0 with a redesigned hf CLI, httpx networking, and Xet-based file transfers.

xAI launched Grokipedia, an AI-assisted encyclopedia and knowledge reference product.

Anthropic launched a beta Excel add-in capable of reading, analyzing, modifying, and creating workbooks.

Mistral AI launched AI Studio as an enterprise production platform for building, evaluating, observing, governing and deploying AI applications.

Google Cloud and Anthropic expand their infrastructure partnership, with Anthropic planning access to up to one million TPUs for Claude training and serving.

DeepSeek introduced its open OCR and document-understanding research family based on visual-text compression.

DeepSeek published its optical-compression model for OCR and document understanding.

Amazon released a universal time-series foundation model for univariate, multivariate and covariate-informed forecasting.

Anthropic launched connectors, skills, and domain support for scientific and life-sciences workflows.

Baidu released a compact multilingual vision-language model for document parsing.

Anthropic introduced reusable Skills across Claude apps, Claude Code, and the API.

Oracle announced new embedded agents across finance, HR, supply chain, sales, marketing and service.

Oracle introduced a marketplace for validated partner-built Fusion application agents.

CoreWeave expanded AI Object Storage with a unified dataset across regions, clouds, and on-premises environments and automated pricing designed to lower typical storage costs by more than 75%.

CoreWeave agreed to provide Poolside with a cluster of more than 40,000 NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 GPUs and support its Project Horizon AI campus.

xAI made web search, X search and code execution tools generally available through its API.

Google launches Veo 3.1 with richer audio, stronger narrative control and reference-image guidance.

NVIDIA began shipping DGX Spark personal AI supercomputers to developers.

Anthropic released Claude Haiku 4.5, offering near-frontier coding performance at lower cost and latency.

Oracle expanded its AI infrastructure roadmap to multi-gigawatt clusters and hundreds of thousands of GPUs.

Oracle unveiled its resilient low-latency networking fabric for very large GPU clusters.

Oracle announced a multi-gigawatt AI supercluster architecture targeting up to 800,000 NVIDIA GPUs.

Oracle added an in-database framework for building agents grounded in enterprise data.

Oracle launched an Apache Iceberg-compatible autonomous lakehouse for AI and analytics across clouds.

Oracle released its AI-native flagship database generation with integrated agentic and vector capabilities.

Anthropic and Salesforce expanded their partnership to make Claude a preferred model for regulated Agentforce deployments.

AWS made the managed agent platform generally available across nine regions.

Microsoft AI announces MAI-Image-1, its first image-generation model developed entirely in-house.

AWS launched the conversational agentic teammate at the center of Quick Suite.

AWS launched an agentic workspace combining research, business intelligence and workflow automation.

Google Cloud launches Gemini Enterprise as an enterprise agentic platform connecting models, data, agents and governance.

IBM added lifecycle observability, monitoring and policy controls for enterprise agents.

Red Hat introduced a unified platform generation for model training, inference and agent workloads.