Releases

Scale expanded SEAL into Scale Labs, a broader research organization focused on evaluation, agents, multimodal systems, post-training, deployments, and oversight.

OpenAI released GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.4 Pro for professional work, coding, computer use, and long-context tasks.

Modal launched Directory Snapshots for capturing and restoring sandbox filesystem state.

Modal added integrated changelog visibility and workflow improvements to its CLI.

CoreWeave announced an agreement to provide AI inference infrastructure for Perplexity.

Cohere joined Aston Martin Aramco as official generative-AI partner to support engineering and business innovation.

Scale launched SWE Atlas, initially releasing Codebase QnA to evaluate how coding agents investigate and reason about real software systems.

Microsoft Research releases Phi-4 Reasoning Vision, a 15-billion-parameter open-weight multimodal reasoning model.

Perplexity expanded Computer as the unifying interface for search, research, creation and actions.

AWS made centralized policy controls for agent-tool interactions generally available.

Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite for low-cost, high-throughput multimodal workloads.

Moonshot published its distributed model-checkpointing engine.

Moonshot published optimized kernels for Kimi Delta Attention.

Moonshot released its expert-parallel communication library for large MoE training and inference.

Moonshot published Mixture-of-Block Attention code and research for efficient long-context modeling.

Baidu launched a general-purpose agent for multi-step productivity workflows.

Scale launched high-fidelity simulated environments for training and testing agents on tool use, computer use, coding, and professional workflows.

Amazon and OpenAI announced joint development of a stateful environment for long-running agents on Amazon Bedrock.

Amazon and OpenAI announced that next-generation Trainium4 is expected to begin delivery in 2027.

Amazon announced an initial $15 billion investment in OpenAI followed by up to $35 billion more under preset conditions.

OpenAI and Amazon announced a strategic partnership spanning investment, AWS compute, and distribution of OpenAI models and products.

OpenAI announced $110 billion of new investment from Amazon, NVIDIA, and SoftBank at a $730 billion pre-money valuation.

CoreWeave reported fiscal 2025 revenue of $5.131 billion, up 168% year over year, with $66.8 billion of revenue backlog.

Samsung partnered with Perplexity to integrate its APIs and AI search capabilities into Samsung devices.

Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash Image for fast, controllable image generation and editing.