Releases

DeepSeek reportedly raised more than RMB50B ($7.4B) in a founder-controlled structure at a valuation exceeding $50B.

Databricks announced Unity AI Gateway as a unified governance and control plane across hosted and external AI assets.

Databricks announced native Grok model availability in Agent Bricks through a partnership with SpaceXAI.

Databricks expanded Agent Bricks with model choice, memory, document intelligence, sandboxes, registry support and multi-agent development capabilities.

Databricks announced an agreement to acquire AI SOC company Panther to expand its agentic security-lakehouse offering.

SpaceXAI launched a Microsoft PowerPoint add-in for creating and refining presentations with Grok.

SpaceXAI moved Imagine Video 1.5 out of preview into general API availability with improved quality and speed.

CoreWeave was selected for inclusion in the Nasdaq-100 Index about fifteen months after its IPO.

SpaceXAI added a dashboard for managing many concurrent coding sessions and dispatching work.

Anthropic suspended access to Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after a US government export-control directive concerning model safeguards.

Perplexity integrated Deep Research into Computer so research could flow directly into documents, spreadsheets, presentations and workflows.

SpaceXAI added a built-in plugin marketplace to Grok Build.

Google releases DiffusionGemma as an open diffusion-based model in the Gemma ecosystem.

Cohere established its compact North Small family with North Mini Code for developer workflows.

Cohere launched its first compact model built specifically for developer and coding workflows.

Anthropic released Claude Mythos 5 to a limited set of vetted cybersecurity partners through trusted-access programs.

Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, a Mythos-class model adapted with safeguards for general use across Claude products and the API.

IBM introduced a system for composing model adapters into deployable specialized models.

IBM released modular adapter functions for RAG, safety and core model capabilities.

IBM positioned its open Mellea generative-programming library as the runtime for modular Granite adapters.

Perplexity launched a set of Computer workflows for growing small and midsize businesses.

Pinterest committed $4 billion through 2031 for AWS infrastructure including Trainium and Graviton to power AI discovery.

NVIDIA made the 550-billion-parameter Nemotron 3 Ultra open model available for long-running agent workflows.

Reuters reported DeepSeek was set to raise about RMB50B from investors including Tencent and CATL, at a projected $52B-$59B post-money valuation.

SpaceXAI released grok-imagine-video-1.5-preview through the API for image-to-video generation.

Meta introduced an AI business agent that can learn from a company's public content and support customer conversations across Meta surfaces.

Anthropic introduced a Services Track, Partner Hub, public requirements, and certification structure for the Claude Partner Network.

Perplexity introduced local and hybrid execution that moves selected Computer workloads onto users' machines.

Microsoft AI announces MAI-Voice-2 Flash as a lower-cost, ultra-efficient speech-generation variant.

Microsoft AI launches MAI-Voice-2 with natural multilingual speech generation and safeguarded short-sample voice adaptation.

Microsoft AI launches MAI-Transcribe-1.5 with high-speed transcription and support for domain terminology across 43 languages.

Microsoft AI launches a lower-cost, latency-optimized Flash variant of MAI-Image-2.5.

Microsoft AI launches MAI-Image-2.5 for high-fidelity text-to-image generation and controllable image editing.

Microsoft AI launches MAI-Code-1-Flash, an efficient agentic coding model integrated into GitHub Copilot and VS Code.

Microsoft AI launches MAI-Thinking-1, its flagship in-house reasoning model for complex instructions, mathematics and coding.

Microsoft AI introduces Frontier Tuning, using reinforcement-learning environments to adapt MAI models to organization-specific workflows.

Microsoft introduces Agent 365 as the trust, management and observability layer for enterprise AI agents.

Microsoft IQ becomes generally available across GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Foundry and Copilot Studio as an enterprise context layer for agents.

Microsoft introduces an integrated enterprise agent platform spanning GitHub, Foundry, Microsoft IQ, Copilot Studio, security and governance.

Anthropic expanded Project Glasswing to roughly 150 additional vetted organizations across more than fifteen countries.

OpenAI expanded Codex with reusable plugins and a Sites workflow for building and publishing complete web experiences.

Oracle, OpenAI and infrastructure partners marked construction progress on a multi-billion-dollar Michigan AI data-center campus.

Moonshot previewed an intermediate K2-generation model before Kimi K3.

Baidu released an enterprise edition of its general-purpose productivity agent.

SpaceXAI added the Composer 2.5 model option for long-running tasks and complex instruction following in Grok Build.

Anthropic confidentially submitted a draft Form S-1 registration statement to the SEC for a proposed initial public offering; pricing and share count were not yet set.

CoreWeave announced an industry-first bring-up and validation milestone for the NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 platform.

NVIDIA announced the Vera Rubin platform had ramped into full production for agentic AI factories.

NVIDIA announced an open humanoid reference design to accelerate physical AI research and development.

NVIDIA launched Cosmos 3 as an open frontier world foundation model for physical AI and formed the Cosmos Coalition.