Releases

NVIDIA introduced a 34-billion-parameter open reasoning vision-language-action model for level 4 robotaxi development.

Oracle expanded guardrails to moderate image inputs and support version pinning.

SpaceXAI made its fast agentic coding model available through the API in public beta.

Perplexity brought Computer workflows into Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook.

Mistral AI held its AI Now Summit to announce new models, products and enterprise capabilities.

Mistral AI expanded Vibe with a unified agent experience across coding and software-development workflows.

Mistral AI launched Search Toolkit for building grounded search, retrieval and research applications.

Anthropic raised $65 billion in Series H funding led by Altimeter, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia, at a $965 billion post-money valuation.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 with stronger coding, agentic, computer-use, and professional-work capabilities plus dynamic workflows in Claude Code.

Mistral AI introduced Physics AI for industrial engineering, simulation and scientific workloads.

SpaceXAI launched Grok Build, an agentic coding product running from the terminal, for SuperGrok and X Premium+ subscribers.

Mistral AI signed a definitive agreement to acquire Emmi AI, expanding into physics-aware AI for engineering and industry; terms were not disclosed.

Perplexity open-sourced Bumblebee, a security framework for agent systems.

Mistral AI Studio added Model Context Protocol connectors for integrating enterprise systems and tools.

Le Chat added remote agents and a Work mode for enterprise knowledge and task execution.

Mistral AI released Mistral Medium 3.5 with improved agentic and enterprise production capabilities.

Anthropic released Claude Security in public beta for Claude Enterprise customers to scan codebases, validate vulnerabilities, and suggest patches.

Modal reported an annualized revenue run rate exceeding $300 million at the time of its Series C.

Modal raised $355 million in Series C financing at a $4.65 billion post-money valuation.

Cohere announced agreements to advance sovereign AI deployments with Indra Group and Multiverse Computing.

Cohere released Command A+, a 218B-total/25B-active MoE model for multilingual, multimodal reasoning and agentic work.

Scale partnered with Carahsoft to make its GenAI Platform, test-and-evaluation capabilities, and deployment services available through U.S. government procurement schedules.

NVIDIA reported Q1 fiscal 2027 record revenue of $81.6 billion, up 85% year-over-year and 20% sequentially. Data Center revenue reached a record $75.2 billion (+92% YoY). Net income was $58.3 billion (GAAP). NVIDIA approved an additional $80 billion share repurchase and raised the quarterly dividend from $0.01 to $0.25 per share.

Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents integration adopted Modal Sandboxes for secure execution.

Cohere acquired biopharma AI specialist Reliant AI, adding its research team, biomedical datasets and domain technology to North for Pharma.

Google expands Antigravity with new capabilities and integration into Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.

Google introduces Gemini Omni, a native multimodal model family designed to accept and generate across multiple media, beginning with video.

Google launches Gemini 3.5 Flash across Google AI Studio, Antigravity and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.

Baidu reported AI Cloud Infrastructure revenue of RMB8.8B for Q1 2026, up 79% year over year.

Anthropic acquired Stainless, an SDK and MCP server tooling company that had powered generation of Anthropic's official SDKs.

Scale marked its tenth anniversary, reporting more than 700 customers served, 15 billion human decisions applied to model development, work across 150 languages and locales, and over $1 billion paid to contributors.

Perplexity added data analysis, coding and visualization workflows for business teams to Computer.

CoreWeave launched secure isolated sandboxes for reinforcement learning, agent tool use, and model evaluation at scale.

Perplexity published details of the security architecture and safeguards built into Computer.

Artificial Analysis data placed CoreWeave first for Kimi K2.6 inference throughput and price-performance among evaluated providers.

Baidu released a more compact flagship model with stronger agents, reasoning and creative abilities.

Scale completed SWE Atlas by adding Test Writing and Refactoring alongside Codebase QnA, producing a 284-task software-engineering evaluation suite.

Perplexity broadened Personal Computer availability to all users on Mac.

The U.S. defense department increased the potential ceiling of its Scale production agreement from $100 million to $500 million following rapid adoption across military components.

Perplexity added structured financial search and retrieval to the Agent API.

SpaceXAI added deep app connectors to Grok, followed by persistent Skills for documents, decks, spreadsheets and workflows.

SpaceXAI agreed to provide Anthropic access to Colossus 1, with both companies also expressing interest in multi-gigawatt orbital AI compute.

The former xAI operation ceased functioning as a separate company and was folded into SpaceX as its AI division, using the SpaceXAI identity.

Anthropic agreed to use all compute capacity at SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center, adding more than 300 megawatts and over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs.

IBM announced an agentic control plane for deploying and governing agents from multiple sources.

Perplexity launched specialized professional-finance workflows in Computer.

Perplexity added premium clinical and health-information sources to its health experience.

Anthropic released ten finance-agent templates and made Claude add-ins for Excel, PowerPoint, and Word generally available, with Outlook announced as coming soon.

Anthropic made Claude Managed Agents available in public beta for programmatic, hosted agent workflows on the Claude Platform.

Perplexity launched Computer inside Microsoft Teams.

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.

SpaceXAI released its first named Think Fast speech-to-speech voice-agent model.

OpenAI released GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro as upgraded frontier models for complex knowledge work and reasoning.

Perplexity published its approach to building and evaluating accuracy in frontier AI systems.

Google Cloud announces that future Vertex AI services and roadmap evolution will be delivered through Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.

Google Cloud launches Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform as the evolution of Vertex AI for building, scaling and governing AI agents.

Anthropic committed more than $100 billion to AWS over ten years for up to five gigawatts of Trainium capacity; Amazon committed $5 billion immediately and up to $20 billion more.

OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.0 with stronger world knowledge, instruction following, detail, and an images-with-thinking mode.

Kimi added agentic presentation and slide creation capabilities.

Kimi expanded its workspace features for producing and editing work artifacts.

Moonshot documented Kimi Researcher as a deep-research workflow within its agent suite.

Kimi expanded its multi-agent swarm system to coordinate parallel specialist agents.

Moonshot released Kimi K2.6 with improved agent capabilities and published model weights.

Scale acquired ICG Solutions and its LUX real-time streaming-data analytics platform to expand its national-security AI stack; ICG initially remained a wholly owned subsidiary.

Anthropic disclosed that annualized run-rate revenue had surpassed $30 billion, up from about $9 billion at the end of 2025.

Amazon made an additional $5 billion investment in Anthropic and said it could invest up to a further $20 billion.

Anthropic committed more than $100 billion over ten years to AWS technologies in an agreement securing up to five gigawatts of compute capacity for Claude.

SpaceXAI announced its speech-to-text and text-to-speech APIs with multilingual support and developer pricing.

Anthropic Labs launched Claude Design for creating polished designs, prototypes, slides, and other visual work.

Perplexity launched Personal Computer on Mac for local-file, application and browser workflows.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 with improved software engineering, vision, complex multi-step work, and new cybersecurity safeguards.

Baidu released an open-weight 8B DiT text-to-image model.

SpaceXAI launched batch and streaming speech transcription in 25 languages.

Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash Audio for real-time and batch audio understanding and generation.

Jane Street agreed to purchase $6 billion of CoreWeave AI cloud services and invest $1 billion in CoreWeave equity.

CoreWeave announced a multi-year agreement to support development and deployment of Anthropic’s Claude model family.