Releases

Morgan Stanley arranged $5 billion of debt financing and xAI separately raised $5 billion in strategic equity to fund AI infrastructure and product development.

Suno acquired WavTool to add advanced digital-audio-workstation technology.

Baidu open-sourced ten ERNIE 4.5 variants spanning dense and mixture-of-experts text and vision-language models.

Meta consolidated its frontier AI efforts into Meta Superintelligence Labs, led by Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang with Nat Friedman overseeing AI products and applied research.

Google releases Gemma 3n weights and tools for efficient multimodal AI on edge devices.

ElevenLabs released Voice Design v3 for creating voices from natural-language descriptions.

Oracle and xAI made Grok 3 and Grok 3 Mini available through OCI Generative AI.

Google DeepMind introduces AlphaGenome to predict regulatory effects of DNA sequence variants at high resolution.

Harvey made its customizable Workflow Builder available to all customers; the product later became Agent Builder.

Google DeepMind introduces an on-device vision-language-action model that runs locally on robots.

Harvey raised $300 million at a $5 billion valuation.

Google transfers the A2A protocol project to the Linux Foundation to support neutral, industry-wide governance.

Mistral AI released Mistral Small 3.2 with improved instruction following, function calling and reduced repetition.

Meta and EssilorLuxottica introduced performance-focused Oakley Meta HSTN AI glasses.

Harvey and LexisNexis partnered to integrate primary law, Protégé, and Shepard's citations and co-develop legal workflows.

Midjourney released its first image-to-video model to the full community.

Databricks introduced managed Model Context Protocol servers for Unity Catalog functions, Genie spaces and AI Search indexes.

Google introduces Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite as a high-throughput, low-cost model in preview.

Google makes Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash generally available for developers and enterprises.

Cursor introduced the $200-per-month Ultra tier for power users with substantially higher usage.

Moonshot released a 72B software-engineering model optimized using reinforcement learning.

Runway released an MCP server for connecting compatible AI agents to generation tools.

Databricks introduced a simplified business-user front door to Genie spaces, dashboards and apps.

AI/BI Genie became generally available across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, alongside a new knowledge store and planned Deep Research mode.

Meta made a $14.3 billion strategic investment for a 49% non-voting minority stake in Scale AI, valuing the independent company at over $29 billion and expanding the commercial partnership.

Founder and CEO Alexandr Wang left day-to-day management to join Meta’s AI efforts while remaining a Scale director; Chief Strategy Officer Jason Droege became interim CEO.

Perplexity closed a $500 million financing led by Accel at a $14 billion valuation.

Meta made a $14.3 billion non-voting minority investment in Scale AI and expanded the companies' commercial relationship; Scale was valued above $29 billion.

Disney and Universal filed copyright litigation challenging Midjourney's model training and outputs.

Databricks and Microsoft expanded integration across Azure Databricks, Microsoft 365 and governed enterprise agents.

Databricks released MLflow 3 with unified tracking, evaluation, observability and governance for models and agents.

Databricks introduced Agent Bricks, which generates task-specific data and benchmarks to optimize agents for enterprise use cases.

Databricks introduced Lakebase, a serverless Postgres category designed for operational data and AI agents.

Hugging Face and NVIDIA introduced a managed service for research organizations to access large GPU clusters for foundation-model training.

Perplexity partnered with European model providers to bring additional European AI models to global users.

Mistral AI announced Mistral Compute, a sovereign European AI cloud developed with NVIDIA infrastructure and European partners.

Meta released V-JEPA 2 for video understanding, physical-world prediction and zero-shot robot planning.

NVIDIA expanded DGX Cloud Lepton with European cloud providers, AWS and Azure participation, and Hugging Face training integration.

Replit launched import workflows for turning designs into applications.

Perplexity published work on accelerating Sonar inference through speculative decoding.

Mistral AI released Magistral Small and Magistral Medium, its first reasoning-focused model family.

OpenAI released o3-pro for more reliable reasoning by using additional compute.

Cohere announced work with the UK government to support secure AI adoption and public-sector productivity.

Cohere and the Government of Canada agreed to explore secure generative AI for public-sector operations.

Cursor disclosed more than $500 million in annual recurring revenue and adoption by over half of the Fortune 500.

Cursor raised $900 million at a $9.9 billion valuation from Thrive, Accel, Andreessen Horowitz, and DST.

xAI released a Management API for programmatic API-key administration.

Anthropic expanded access and deployment support for approved US national-security customers.

Perplexity expanded Finance with richer market data and research tools for investors.

Cursor 1.0 introduced one-click MCP server installation and tool connectivity.