Releases

Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs announced a new AI services company focused on deploying Claude at mid-sized enterprises.

Scale signed a memorandum of understanding with the U.S. Department of Energy to explore AI-ready scientific data infrastructure, evaluations, and model applications for the Genesis Mission.

Anthropic disclosed that annualized run-rate revenue had crossed $47 billion earlier in May 2026.

CoreWeave added guided self-service and SUNK Anywhere so research teams could deploy production-grade Slurm-on-Kubernetes training on CoreWeave and other clouds.

CoreWeave launched private cross-cloud networking alongside SUNK Anywhere and LOTA Cross-Cloud to simplify distributed AI workloads.

LOTA Cross-Cloud extended CoreWeave’s local object-transport acceleration to data held outside CoreWeave regions.

Perplexity expanded Computer with connected workplace applications and enterprise workflows.

SpaceXAI launched voice cloning from short recordings for text-to-speech and voice-agent APIs.

IBM published the 8B base and instruct Granite 4.1 models.

IBM published the 30B base and instruct Granite 4.1 models.

IBM published the 3B base and instruct Granite 4.1 models.

IBM released Granite 4.1 language, vision, speech, embedding and Guardian models under Apache 2.0.

AWS expanded Quick with a desktop application, Free and Plus plans, visual-asset generation and new integrations.

AWS announced a managed OpenAI-powered agent runtime integrated with Bedrock and AWS controls.

AWS and OpenAI expanded their partnership to offer OpenAI frontier models through Amazon Bedrock in limited preview.

NVIDIA released an open multimodal model unifying vision, audio and language for efficient agents.

Mistral AI opened Workflows in public preview, enabling visual composition of enterprise AI agents and automations.

Meta agreed to deploy tens of millions of AWS Graviton cores for CPU-intensive agentic AI workloads.

OpenAI and Microsoft announce the next phase of their partnership with amended commercial terms.

OpenAI and Microsoft announced the next phase of their partnership with amended commercial terms.

OpenAI discontinued the standalone Sora product as its video strategy shifted to newer experiences and models.

The efficient V4 Flash preview became available through DeepSeek's API.

DeepSeek introduced the V4 family through Pro and Flash preview API models.

The V4 Pro preview became available through OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible interfaces.

Cohere and Aleph Alpha announced plans to combine into a transatlantic sovereign-AI company operating as Cohere; completion remained subject to approvals.