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Google released Gemini 3.1 Pro on February 19, 2026, reporting more than double the reasoning performance of its predecessor on key benchmarks. The model scored 77.1% on ARC-AGI-2, a test designed to measure general intelligence capabilities
Zhipu AI released GLM-5 on February 13, 2026, a 744 billion parameter open-source model trained entirely on Huawei Ascend chips without a single NVIDIA GPU
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Apple just admitted it cannot build a competitive voice assistant alone. On February 12, 2026, the company announced a multi-year partnership with Google to rebuild Siri from the ground up using Gemini AI
Suno released major updates to V5 Studio on February 6, 2026, adding warp markers, FX removal, alternate takes, and time signature control
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory successfully completed the first autonomous drive on Mars where the rover's path was planned using Anthropic's Claude AI. Perseverance completed two separate drives totaling nearly 1,500 feet, with the first drive covering 689 feet and the second spanning 807 feet
The four largest technology companies have collectively committed $650 billion toward AI infrastructure spending in 2026, marking a dramatic 67 percent increase from 2025 investments
For years, AI music generation was a party trick. You typed a prompt, waited a few seconds, and got something that sounded like a song recorded through a hotel wall
Perplexity launched Model Council on February 5, 2026, a feature that runs the same query across multiple frontier AI models simultaneously and synthesizes a single, cross-validated answer. The feature is available to Perplexity Max subscribers at $200 per month
On February 5, 2026, OpenAI shipped GPT-5.3-Codex within minutes of Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 release. This wasn't coincidence
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.6 on February 5, 2026, introducing agent teams that coordinate across parallel tasks, a 1 million token context window (5x the previous limit), and 128K output tokens
Google announced that Gemini has reached 750 million monthly active users, representing growth of 100 million users from the previous quarter's 650 million