Releases

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.