Releases

Perplexity announced a $50 million venture fund to invest in early-stage AI startups.

Anthropic introduced Claude Code as a terminal-based agentic coding tool in limited research preview.

Anthropic released Claude 3.7 Sonnet, its first hybrid reasoning model with standard and extended-thinking modes.

Scale entered a five-year partnership with Qatar’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology to deploy AI applications, analytics, automation, and workforce programs across government.

Hugging Face released SmolVLM2 at 256M, 500M, and 2.2B parameters with support for video understanding as well as images and text.

xAI unveiled Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini with reasoning modes, DeepSearch and Think capabilities trained on Colossus.

Microsoft Research and Xbox introduce Muse, a generative world and action model trained on gameplay sequences.

Perplexity released R1 1776, an open-weight post-trained version of DeepSeek-R1 intended to reduce censorship while retaining reasoning capability.

South Korea's privacy regulator suspended new downloads while reviewing personal-data protections.

Mistral AI released Mistral Saba, a 24B regional language model optimized for Arabic and languages of the Middle East and South Asia.

Perplexity launched Deep Research, an autonomous mode that performs many searches, evaluates sources and writes cited reports.

Harvey raised $300 million at a $3 billion valuation in a Sequoia-led Series D.

Scale published MASK as part of its safety research program for testing whether models knowingly state beliefs inconsistent with their internal representations.

Scale released FORTRESS to evaluate frontier-model safeguards against dual-use national-security and public-safety risks.

Perplexity released a faster in-house Sonar model built on Llama 3.3 70B and served through Cerebras for Pro search.

Cohere and RBC began co-developing North for Banking for secure, regulated financial-services work.

Cohere introduced Compass as North's multimodal search and discovery backbone for governed enterprise data.

Cohere opened early access to North, an all-in-one secure AI workspace combining models, enterprise search and agents.

A consortium led by xAI submitted an unsolicited $97.4 billion offer for the nonprofit controlling OpenAI; the proposal was rejected and did not proceed.

Anthropic launched the Economic Index to measure how AI is being used across occupations and tasks.

Meta released PARTNR, a benchmark, dataset and planning model for human-robot collaboration on household tasks.

Mistral AI relaunched Le Chat with iOS and Android apps, Pro and Team plans, faster inference, image generation and an Enterprise preview.

Meta researchers introduced a non-invasive deep-learning system for decoding typed sentences from EEG and MEG brain recordings.

Google releases Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite in public preview as its lowest-cost Gemini 2.0 model.

Google releases an experimental Gemini 2.0 Pro for coding and complex prompts with a two-million-token context window.