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Pika Labs launched AI Selves on March 7, 2026, a feature that creates persistent AI video avatars from user-uploaded reference material. Each AI Self has memory, personality traits, and can appear in any scene the creator generates through Pika's existing text-to-video pipeline
Anthropic launched the Claude Marketplace on March 6, 2026, a procurement platform where enterprises can spend their existing Anthropic commitments on third-party applications built on Claude
ElevenLabs launched its Iconic Voice Marketplace in early March 2026, a licensing platform where celebrity voices are made available to businesses and creators for commercial use
IBM released Granite 4.0 1B Speech on March 6, a compact multilingual speech model that now ranks first on the OpenASR Leaderboard for automatic speech recognition
Hugging Face launched Modular Diffusers on March 5, replacing the monolithic DiffusionPipeline with a composable block system
Google merged three separate AI creative tools into one platform in March 2026. Flow now combines Whisk (mood boards and collages), ImageFX (text-to-image generation), and Flow's original video capabilities into a single workspace powered by Veo 3.1 and Nano Banana
Lightricks released LTX-2.3 on March 5, 2026, a 22-billion-parameter open-source video generation model with native audio, portrait video support, and a companion desktop editor that runs the entire model locally. The release ships under Apache 2.0, making it free for commercial use and fine-tuning
Kiwi-Edit, a new open-source video editing framework from NUS ShowLab, launched on March 5, 2026, combining text instruction guidance with reference image control to handle both global and local video edits at 720p resolution
Luma launched Creative AI Agents on March 5, 2026, powered by its new Uni-1 model. The system handles end-to-end creative production across text, image, video, and audio, coordinating with external models like Google Veo 3, Nano Banana Pro, ByteDance Seedream, and ElevenLabs
OpenAI launched GPT-5.4 on March 5, 2026, introducing native Computer Use mode that lets the model read screens and control mouse and keyboard inputs directly. The release also brings a 1M token context window, 33% fewer factual errors across benchmarks, and 47% token efficiency gains
Google just killed three products and replaced them with one. On February 25, 2026, the company merged Flow, Whisk, and ImageFX into a single creative workspace powered by Veo 3.1, Nano Banana, and Gemini
OpenAI released the Codex coding agent app for Windows on March 4, 2026, expanding beyond the Mac-only launch. The app is temporarily free for ChatGPT Free and Go subscribers, with doubled rate limits for all paid tiers
Helios is a 14-billion-parameter open-source video model that runs at 19.5 FPS on a single NVIDIA H100, generating up to 60 seconds of video in real time. Built by Peking University, ByteDance, and Canva, it launched under the Apache 2.0 license on March 4, 2026
OpenAI released GPT-5.3 Instant on March 3, 2026, replacing GPT-5.2 Instant as the default model in ChatGPT. The update reduces hallucinations by 26.8% on high-stakes queries, eliminates the preachy tone users complained about, and ships to all ChatGPT users including the free tier
Xiaohongshu's Intelligent Creation team released FireRed-Image-Edit 1.1 on March 3, 2026, achieving a composite score of 7.94 across five authoritative benchmarks and claiming the top spot among open-source image editing models
Alibaba's Qwen team just released Qwen 3.5 Small, a series of four open-source models ranging from 0.8B to 9B parameters that run on phones, IoT devices, and browser tabs. The smallest model operates on a seven-year-old Samsung Galaxy S10E at 12 tokens per second
AMD launched the Ryzen AI 400 Series desktop processors at MWC 2026 on March 2, marking the first time its XDNA 2 NPU and RDNA 3.5 integrated graphics are available in a desktop form factor
OpenAI closed a $110 billion funding round on February 27, 2026, the largest private financing in history. The deal values the company at $730 billion, more than doubling its $300 billion valuation from just 12 months earlier
Meta Platforms signed a three-year AI content licensing deal with News Corp worth up to $50 million per year. The agreement gives Meta access to News Corp's US and UK news archives to train AI models and power real-time responses in Meta AI products across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messe...
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