Releases

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.

Cursor introduced Memories in beta so the editor could retain useful project context and conventions.