Releases

Runway raised a $315 million Series E at a $5.3 billion valuation.

Databricks disclosed a $1.4 billion annual revenue run-rate for its AI products.

Databricks completed about $5 billion of equity financing at a $134 billion valuation plus roughly $2 billion of additional debt capacity.

Suno added warp markers, Remove FX, alternates, and time-signature support to Studio.

Baidu released a 2.4T-parameter unified model trained jointly across text, image, video and audio.

CoreWeave introduced a new brand positioning centered on being the essential cloud platform for production AI.

CoreWeave introduced ARENA, a production-scale lab for testing AI workload performance, economics, and operational readiness before deployment.

Perplexity launched Model Council, allowing users to query multiple frontier models and synthesize their agreements and disagreements.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.6 with stronger coding, longer-running agentic work, improved knowledge work, and a one-million-token context window in beta.

OpenAI released GPT-5.3-Codex, an interactive agentic coding model for complex software and professional work.

ElevenLabs released a conversationally optimized v3 model with improved turn-taking, latency, and expressiveness.

ElevenLabs raised $500 million at an $11 billion valuation.

AIP Document Intelligence became generally available for extracting, structuring, and reasoning over documents.

Mistral AI released two second-generation Voxtral transcription models for production speech-to-text workloads.

Eleven v3 moved from alpha to general availability.

SpaceX acquired X.AI Holdings in an all-stock merger. Reporting tied to the transaction valued xAI at about $250 billion and SpaceX at $1 trillion, implying a combined $1.25 trillion value.

Anthropic named the Allen Institute and Howard Hughes Medical Institute as founding life-sciences partners to develop specialized AI agents and accelerate scientific discovery.

Moonshot opened public beta access to Kimi Claw, a persistent cloud agent workspace.

Baidu released an upgraded 0.9B document-parsing vision-language model.

Modal added richer observability and management controls for running Sandboxes.

Modal became available through the AWS and Google Cloud marketplaces.

Cohere launched Model Vault for dedicated, fully managed and isolated model inference.

xAI launched next-generation image and video generation through the Grok Imagine API, alongside a Batch API for high-volume workloads.

Moonshot released Kimi K2.5, adding native multimodal capabilities and stronger agentic coding.

DeepSeek published its second-generation visual causal-flow OCR model.