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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
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
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
ElevenLabs raised $500 million at an $11 billion valuation on February 4, 2026, tripling its worth in roughly one year. NVIDIA backed the round
On February 4, 2026, Kuaishou launched Kling 3.0 and rewrote the specification sheet for AI video generation. Native 4K at 60 frames per second