Releases

xAI added conversational voice interaction to the standalone Grok experience.

Anthropic joined Palantir FedStart to accelerate deployment of Claude capabilities to U.S. government customers.

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.

Runway released the faster and cost-efficient Gen-4 Turbo video model.

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.

Runway raised $308 million in a General Atlantic-led round at a valuation above $3 billion.

V7 introduced Omni Reference for carrying subjects and visual elements into new images.

V7 introduced a fast, lower-cost Draft Mode for rapid iteration.

Midjourney released V7 with improved prompt precision, image coherence, Draft Mode, and Omni Reference.

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.

Runway launched Gen-4 References for consistent characters, locations, and objects.

Runway released Gen-4 for coherent and controllable video generation.

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.