Releases

Gemini 2.0 Flash becomes generally available through the Gemini API, Google AI Studio and Vertex AI.

Australia directed federal entities to remove and prevent DeepSeek products on government systems and devices.

CoreWeave became the first cloud provider to make rack-scale NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 instances generally available through its Kubernetes service.

xAI released the standalone Grok app for Android.

Anthropic published and tested Constitutional Classifiers, a safeguard approach designed to resist broad classes of jailbreaks.

OpenAI launched deep research, an agentic ChatGPT capability for multi-step web research and synthesis.

Moonshot released Moonlight, a 16B MoE model used to evaluate Muon optimization at scale.

xAI completed the second phase of Colossus 1, doubling the interconnected cluster to roughly 200,000 NVIDIA H100/H200 GPUs.

OpenAI released o3-mini, a cost-efficient reasoning model optimized for science, mathematics, and coding.

ElevenLabs raised $180 million at a $3.3 billion valuation.

Italy's data-protection authority ordered an immediate restriction on DeepSeek's processing of Italian users' personal data.

Mistral AI released Mistral Small 3, a 24B latency-optimized open-weight model.

Google rolls out Gemini 2.0 Flash as the default model in the Gemini app.

CoreWeave detailed Mission Control capabilities for infrastructure validation, proactive node replacement, fleet health, and AI cluster observability.

Perplexity introduced Sonar Reasoning and Sonar Reasoning Pro for search-grounded analytical queries.

Hugging Face launched a unified inference layer that lets developers call models across multiple providers through one API and billing experience.

IBM launched an AI-powered delivery platform for consultants and client transformation work.

DeepSeek released scaled 1B and 7B Janus-Pro checkpoints with improved understanding and image generation.

DeepSeek's assistant reached number one among free iPhone applications in the United States as adoption surged.

DeepSeek temporarily limited new registrations following a large-scale malicious cyberattack.

NVIDIA had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $3.493 trillion as of Jan 26, 2025 (NASDAQ: NVDA), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Hugging Face launched Open R1 to openly reproduce and extend the data, training, and evaluation pipeline behind reasoning models.

Scale and the Center for AI Safety published Humanity’s Last Exam, assembled from nearly 1,000 contributors across more than 500 institutions in 50 countries.

Hugging Face released a 500M vision-language model for low-memory multimodal inference.

Hugging Face released a 256M vision-language model small enough for highly constrained devices while supporting image-and-text tasks.