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Google and the United Nations system have jointly launched the UN System Data Commons, a new open-source platform that pulls global statistics from across UN agencies into a single, AI-searchable…
Anthropic is collapsing Claude Cowork and its standard chat interface into a single product, while simultaneously launching Claude Docs and Claude Slides — built-in document and presentation creation…
OpenAI has temporarily stopped accepting new subscribers and upgrades to ChatGPT Pro's top $200-per-month tier, according to the company's own support documentation. The freeze affects only new…
Anthropic released Claude for Financial Advisors on September 14, 2026, a plugin bundling connectors to major custodians, portfolio platforms and CRMs with workflow skills built around a financial…
Cohere has released North Small Translate, an open-weight machine translation model the company says outperforms commercial services from DeepL and Google on a standard industry benchmark, while…
Together AI introduced preemptible compute for its Together GPU Clusters on September 10, a new capacity tier priced at half the standard on-demand rate for workloads that can tolerate being…
NVIDIA used the run-up to IBC 2026 — the broadcast industry's flagship conference, running September 11-14 in Amsterdam — to announce a major expansion of NVIDIA AI for Media, its collection of…
xAI has announced the retirement of grok-imagine-image-quality, one of its Grok Imagine image-generation model slugs, effective November 2, 2026, according to the company's release notes dated…
Runway has launched Team, a new subscription tier built for groups of creators working together, with shared project storage, a pooled monthly credit balance, and collaboration tools layered on top…
The Institute of Foundation Models (IFM), the model-building arm of Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), released K2 Horizon on September 3, 2026 — a family of six…
Runway published research on August 31, 2026 introducing Solaris, which it calls the first entry in a new family of AI systems: "Interface World Models." Rather than generating code that a browser or…
Robotics startup Perceptron AI has released Isaac 0.5, a 36-billion-parameter open-weight model that combines video understanding, embodied reasoning, and robot control in a single system, with…
IBM has released Granite-4.2-8B, an 8-billion-parameter open-weight reasoning model built with native chain-of-thought reasoning baked into the architecture, available under the Apache 2.0 license.…
Anthropic will not raise Claude Sonnet 5's API pricing on September 1 as originally planned, according to a note on the official Claude Platform pricing page. The $2 per million input token / $10 per…
Z.ai (Zhipu AI) has released GLM-5.3-Flash, a new open-weight large language model that pairs a large total parameter count with a small active-parameter footprint, aimed at cutting inference cost…
Perplexity has launched Portable Computer, a version of its Perplexity Computer agent that runs entirely on local hardware instead of the cloud, built jointly with NVIDIA for the DGX Spark desktop AI…
OpenAI is bringing ChatGPT for Teachers to 55 additional U.S. school systems across 20 states, extending free access to more than 100,000 additional educators and staff, and pairing the expansion…
Tencent released an open-source preview of a new large language model called Hy4 preview on August 28, 2026, publishing the weights on Hugging Face, ModelScope, GitCode, and CNB. The model is aimed…
xAI is widening access to Grok Bot, its autonomous AI-agent product, bundling it into every SuperGrok tier plus Cursor Pro, Cursor Pro+, Cursor Ultra, and Cursor Teams plans, just two weeks after the…
Google is replacing Gemini Notebook's simple daily usage caps with flexible, compute-based limits that take prompt complexity into account and refresh every five hours instead of once a day. What's…
OpenAI opened registration on August 25 for the WebMCP Challenge, a 10-day hackathon inviting developers to build websites and apps that expose their functionality directly to AI agents using WebMCP,…
OpenAI will begin showing advertisements to ChatGPT users on its Free and Go subscription tiers in India, extending its ads business to one of the app's largest markets. What's new The rollout starts…
Anthropic has opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a shared specification that lets AI agents safely operate physical lab and manufacturing equipment, including…
Anthropic is opening 10,000 seats for scientists around the world to access Claude subscriptions for free or at a discounted rate for one year, through a new Claude team plan built specifically for…
Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, an open-weight model on Hugging Face that the team describes as the first look at a reworked architecture meant to underpin its next-generation…
Google Cloud introduced Gemini Enterprise for Legal on August 25, a purpose-built AI agent platform for law firms and corporate legal departments, launching in preview alongside a parallel Gemini…
AWS has published the Agentic Data Operations Platform (ADOP), an open-source reference architecture that uses AI agents running on Amazon Bedrock to automate the setup work involved in standing up a…
Cursor, the AI coding editor maker owned by Anysphere, launched Origin on August 17-18, 2026 — a Git repository hosting platform positioned as a direct alternative to GitHub, built on a storage…
Liquid AI has released LFM2.5-DSpark, a family of open-weight speculative-decoding draft models built to speed up inference on its LFM2.5 model line without changing output quality. What's new Per…
OpenAI has cut API pricing for GPT-5.6 Sol, its current-generation frontier model, dropping input token costs by 20% and output token costs by 33%. The change, logged in the OpenAI API changelog on…
Anthropic has launched Claude Academy, a new educational platform meant to teach individuals and organizations how to use AI safely and effectively, built on the same instructional approach the…
Liquid AI has released LFM2.5-VL-3B, a 3.1-billion-parameter open-weight vision-language model built to run on phones, laptops, and single GPUs, with the company describing it as "our most capable…
Google's Gemini API pricing page now shows a scheduled price increase for its newest Flash-tier models, Gemini 3.7 Flash and Gemini 3.6 Flash, set to roughly double both input and output token…
NVIDIA has published Nemotron 3 Ultra Teacher-Chat, an open-weight conversational model designed less for direct chatbot use than as a "teacher" for training smaller models — generating…
DeepSeek will move DeepSeek-V4-Pro and DeepSeek-V4-Flash to a peak/off-peak pricing structure starting at 16:00 UTC on August 16, 2026, giving developers a way to cut inference costs by shifting…
DeepSeek has released DeepSeek Harness v0.1 in developer preview, an open-source agent runtime built around a single architectural idea: every part of an agent, from the model to the sandbox to the…
Alibaba's Qwen team has published Qwen3.8-27B, a 27-billion-parameter open-weight vision-language model that natively supports a 262,144-token context window, extensible to 1 million tokens, aimed at…
Cohere's research arm, Cohere Labs, published North Micro Vision on August 12, 2026, a compact open-weight vision-language model built to preserve fine visual detail — tables, charts, screenshots,…
Alibaba's Qwen team has published weights for Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B on Hugging Face, a mixture-of-experts language model with 2.4 trillion total parameters and 95 billion active per token. The model card…
The Gemini app has crossed 1 billion monthly active users, Google announced, marking what the company describes as the fastest a product has ever grown in its history. What's new In a post on the…
Anthropic will not raise the price of Claude Sonnet 5 as previously scheduled. The company's Claude Platform release notes confirm that the introductory rate of $2 per million input tokens and $10…
xAI has launched Grok Bot, a new class of "durable AI teammates" that run persistently in the cloud rather than as one-off chat sessions, according to an August 11 update to the release notes on…
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight mixture-of-experts model built for high-volume agentic tasks, alongside NeMo Switchyard, an open-source library that routes…
NVIDIA published an updated release of Magpie TTS Multilingual on Hugging Face on August 10, 2026, expanding its open-weights text-to-speech model to 12 languages and publishing latency and accuracy…
OpenAI has sharply cut prices on two of its GPT-5.6 family models and replaced its Priority Processing add-on with a new Fast mode option across the API. What's new Per OpenAI's developer changelog,…
Meta released open weights for Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter agentic model built to run entirely on a single consumer GPU, making it the company's first Meta Superintelligence Labs model aimed…
OpenAI is adding a new Premium seat tier to ChatGPT Business, giving individual users five times more usage than the standard seat and removing the platform's five-hour usage limit, the company…
Liquid AI released LFM2.5-2.6B on August 4, an open-weight, 2.6-billion-parameter model built specifically to run local agentic workloads entirely on-device, rather than routing tool calls and…
MiniMax released the weights for H3, its general-purpose omni-modal generation model, on August 3, 2026, three days after first unveiling the model. "Today, we are officially open-sourcing MiniMax…
Vercel, together with Amazon Web Services, Anysphere (maker of Cursor), GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI, published Agent Plugins 1.0.0 on August 6, 2026 — an open, vendor-neutral packaging format meant…
Meta has entered the AI coding-agent market with Muse Code, a terminal-based agent unveiled in beta on August 5, 2026, built on the company's updated Muse Spark 1.2 model. What's new According to…
DeepSeek has told developers to expect a substantial jump in what it charges for API access, according to a notice now live on its official API pricing page. The company has not set a date or…
OpenAI introduced three new education plugins for ChatGPT Work and Codex, timed to the fall return to classrooms, aimed at helping college students, K-12 educators, and college educators use agentic…
NVIDIA is open-sourcing the cuFile APIs that let GPUs read from and write to storage directly, and it has launched Storage-Next, an industry-wide initiative with more than 40 storage and flash…
NVIDIA made Alpamayo 2 Super, its frontier open-weights reasoning model for robotaxis and autonomous vehicles, available for commercial use on August 4, 2026, under a license that permits…
Mistral AI released Shieldstral-1.0-3B on August 4, 2026, an open-weights safety classifier that takes a moderation policy as a plain-language question at inference time instead of requiring the…
NVIDIA has published NemotronLabs VoiceChat, an 11-billion-parameter end-to-end speech model the company describes as the first open full-duplex voice model that can call tools mid-conversation,…
Replit dropped prices across its Cloud platform on August 1, cutting Autoscale compute costs by more than 80% and database storage costs by more than 75%, with the new rates applied automatically to…
The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) has launched the OlmoEarth Platform, open infrastructure designed to take its OlmoEarth Earth-observation models from research fine-tuning to running inference across…
Liquid AI has released two new open-weight encoder models, LFM2.5-Encoder-230M and LFM2.5-Encoder-350M, aimed at classification and routing workloads that need to run continuously and cheaply on CPUs…
A Google creative technologist named Raph has built and open-sourced Glanceboard, a family scheduling tool that turns calendar and weather data into a personalized illustration shown on an e-ink…
OpenAI disclosed Friday that its models now reach more than one billion active users and more than two million businesses, one of the company's most specific public statements yet about the scale of…
OpenAI slashed API pricing for two of its three GPT-5.6 models on July 30, cutting the cost of GPT-5.6 Luna by 80% and GPT-5.6 Terra by 20%, according to the company's official API changelog. What's…
OpenAI announced ChatGPT for Academic Researchers on July 29, a program offering free access to its frontier models and research tools to academics, starting with 10,000 researchers this summer and…
Google has introduced Gemini Spark, an autonomous personal AI agent built on Gemini 3.6 Flash, to users in India, expanding a feature it first previewed at Google I/O 2026 into general availability…
Cohere has introduced North Automations, a new orchestration layer for its North enterprise AI platform that lets employees describe a multi-step business process in plain language and have several…
Moonshot AI has published the full weights of Kimi K3 on Hugging Face, delivering on the timeline it set 11 days ago when it first unveiled the 2.8-trillion-parameter model. The model card, now live…
The Swiss AI Initiative — a joint effort of ETH Zurich, EPFL, and the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) — released Apertus 1.5, an update to its fully open language model family that adds…
xAI has shipped Grok for Excel, a free Microsoft 365 add-in that puts its Grok assistant directly inside spreadsheets. "Today we're bringing Grok into Microsoft Excel," the company said in its…
NVIDIA has open-sourced a Medical Physics Simulation framework, a GPU-accelerated capability within NVIDIA Isaac for Healthcare that lets medical robotics developers simulate anatomy-device…
OpenAI has added organization- and project-level spend limits to the API platform, letting developers cap monthly API costs or enforce hard limits that fail requests once a limit is reached. What's…
Poolside released Laguna S 2.1 on July 21, 2026, an open-weight foundation model built for agentic coding and long-horizon software engineering tasks, which the company is positioning as the West's…
Meituan released LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts language model, on Hugging Face under the MIT license — the latest and largest entry in its LongCat family, and one it says…
Moonshot AI unveiled Kimi K3 on July 16, 2026, a 2.8-trillion-parameter model the company calls the world's first open 3-trillion-class model. The API is live today on Kimi.com, Kimi Work, Kimi Code,…
Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, released Inkling on July 15, 2026 — its first open-weight model and a direct challenge to the "one-size-fits-all"…
Google is renaming NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, folding its source-grounded research tool more tightly into the Gemini ecosystem while giving it a significant new capability: a secure cloud…
A German research consortium has released Soofi-S-30B-A3B, an open-weights foundation model built as a sovereign European alternative to US and Chinese AI systems, with training run entirely on…
ElevenLabs formally launched its Canadian business on July 7, 2026, appointing a dedicated General Manager, committing to double its Canadian headcount this year, and opening its first Canadian…
Anthropic launched Claude for Teachers on July 14, 2026, giving verified K-12 educators in the US free access to premium Claude capabilities built around lesson planning, differentiation, and…
NVIDIA published Nemotron-3-Embed-8B-BF16 on Hugging Face on July 14, 2026, an open-weights text embedding model built for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and semantic search across 34…
Together AI introduced Provisioned Throughput on July 8, 2026, a reserved-capacity purchasing option aimed at teams running open-weight models in production who need guaranteed performance rather…
OpenAI's head of safety systems, Johannes Heidecke, is leaving the company, following a reorganization that merges OpenAI's safety and research teams under a single leader. What's new Per Wired,…
Meta shut down a feature that let people @-mention any public Instagram account inside Meta AI and generate images referencing that account's photos, three days after it shipped, following objections…
Cohere has open-sourced Cohere Transcribe Arabic, a 2B-parameter automatic speech recognition model purpose-built for Arabic dialects, code-switching, and business/developer speech, releasing the…
Salesforce has made its Agentforce Commerce suite of AI shopping agents generally available, with Shopper Agent, Buyer Agent, and Merchant Agent now live and natively integrated into ChatGPT, ahead…
Fidji Simo, OpenAI's CEO of Applications and the company's second-highest-ranking executive, announced on July 9, 2026 that she is stepping back from her full-time role to focus on recovering from a…
OpenAI is shutting down Atlas, the standalone AI-powered browser it launched less than a year ago, and moving its agentic browsing features into the core ChatGPT desktop app and a Chrome extension.…
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Work, a new agent inside ChatGPT designed to take on a goal, work independently across a user's connected apps and files for hours if needed, and hand back finished output…
Anthropic has launched a public beta of Claude Code and Claude Cowork for Claude for Government Desktop, a FedRAMP High authorized offering built for U.S. federal, state, and local government…
Hugging Face has released version 0.6.0 of LeRobot, its open-source robot-learning library, headlined by a new class of "world model" policies that predict what will happen next before a robot…
Z.ai, the Beijing-based lab formerly known as Zhipu AI, has launched ZCode, a free desktop coding environment built specifically around its flagship GLM-5.2 model. The release, which rolled out the…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees at an internal town hall on July 2, 2026 that the company's AI agent development has not moved as fast as leadership expected, an unusually candid admission…
Mistral has released Leanstral 1.5, a free Apache-2.0 licensed model built specifically for formal verification and proof engineering in Lean 4, and it has effectively maxed out one of the field's…
Meta has quietly rate-limited Conversation Focus, an on-device AI feature on its smart glasses that amplifies a speaker's voice in noisy settings, capping free use at three hours a month and tying…
Chinese delivery-app giant Meituan open-sourced LongCat-2.0 on June 30 — a 1.6-trillion-parameter coding model it says is the first of its scale trained and served end-to-end on domestic Chinese…
Meta has quietly launched Pocket, an experimental app that lets users generate and play small interactive games — which it calls "gizmos" — from a single text prompt, without any official company…
Microsoft has launched Microsoft Frontier Company, a new operating unit that embeds 6,000 engineers and industry specialists directly inside enterprise customers to design, deploy, and continuously…
DeepSeek has released DSpark, an add-on speculative-decoding module for its DeepSeek-V4 models, and published it on Hugging Face under an MIT license alongside a companion training codebase called…
Microsoft's AI For Good Lab partnered with the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library to build a set of AI tools that let visitors search Roosevelt's writings in plain language and converse with a…
Suno has introduced Spark, an incubator program that gives independent musicians grants and marketing support to make and promote new music on the platform — while binding participants to a clause…
Cursor released a native iOS app in public beta, letting developers launch and steer AI coding agents from their phone instead of only from a desktop editor. What's new Cursor for iOS is available…
Hugging Face and Cerebras have released an open, cascaded speech-to-speech voice AI demo built on Google DeepMind's Gemma 4 31B, pairing Cerebras's inference speed with a fully open, swappable model…
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Nano Omni on April 28, 2026, an open multimodal model designed for AI agent deployments that unifies video, audio, image, and text processing in a single architecture. The…
Amazon Web Services launched a new Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) organization on June 30, 2026, committing $1 billion to place AWS engineers directly inside enterprise customer organizations to…
Anthropic launched Claude Science on June 30, 2026, a dedicated AI workbench for scientific research that integrates more than 60 scientific databases into a single environment, enabling researchers…
Krea released the weights for its Krea 2 image generation models on June 23, 2026, making K2 Raw and K2 Turbo available for download under a permissive license. The release marks Krea's entry into…
NVIDIA launched Ising, a family of open-source AI models designed to serve as the control plane for quantum processors — the first such models publicly released. Ising addresses two foundational…
DeepSeek published DSpark on June 27, 2026 — a speculative decoding framework applied as an add-on module to its flagship DeepSeek-V4-Flash and V4-Pro models, boosting per-user generation speed by…
Liquid AI on June 25, 2026 released LFM2.5-230M, its smallest model yet — a 230-million-parameter non-transformer model that runs at 42 tokens per second on a Raspberry Pi 5 and outperforms models…
NVIDIA announced the Nemotron 3 family of open models on June 4, 2026 — a three-tier lineup built on a hybrid mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture that uses NVIDIA's 4-bit NVFP4 training format on…
Google unveiled Gemini Spark at its I/O developer conference on May 19, 2026 — a persistent, cloud-based AI agent designed to handle multi-step tasks across Gmail, Google Workspace, and third-party…
Anthropic on June 26, 2026 raised rate limits across the Claude API and collapsed its usage tier structure to three buckets — Start, Build, and Scale — eliminating the previous multi-tier ladder that…
Four of Google's most prominent AI researchers departed in a single week for rival labs, with three heading to Anthropic and one to OpenAI. The exits — including a Nobel laureate and one of the…
Nex AGI has released Nex-N2-Pro, a 397-billion-parameter open-source Mixture-of-Experts model under an Apache 2.0 license, alongside a smaller Nex-N2-mini variant. Built on the Qwen3.5-397B-A17B…
Google has open-sourced DiffusionGemma, an experimental 26-billion-parameter Mixture of Experts text-generation model that ditches token-by-token autoregressive decoding in favor of parallel block…
Google announced on June 15, 2026 that Veo 2.0 and Veo 3.0 — its current video generation models available via the Gemini API — will shut down on June 30, 2026. The same changelog entry confirmed…
Cohere released Command A+, its most capable model to date, on May 20, 2026 under an Apache 2.0 open-source license. The 218-billion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model is designed to run on minimal…
OpenAI has announced DevDay 2026, its annual developer conference, scheduled for September 29 at Fort Mason in San Francisco. Applications are open now through July 10, 2026, with accepted applicants…
Anthropic today launched Claude Tag in beta, a new product that adds Claude as a persistent member of Slack workspaces. Unlike existing point-in-time AI integrations, Claude Tag gives every member of…
Google announced on June 15, 2026 that six production video and image generation models in the Gemini API are being retired, with the first group -- three Veo models -- shutting down on June 30,…