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Lovable, the vibe coding platform that lets users build applications through natural language commands, reached $400 million in annual recurring revenue in February 2026. The company did it with just 146 employees and 8 million users, adding $100 million in revenue in a single month
Meta has delayed the launch of its next-generation AI model, codenamed "Avocado," from March to at least May 2026. Internal testing revealed the model falls short of competitors from Google and OpenAI, landing somewhere between Google's Gemini 2.5 and Gemini 3 in performance
Cursor, the AI coding assistant built on Claude and GPT models, is in talks for a new funding round at a $50 billion valuation, Bloomberg reported on March 12, 2026. The company crossed $2 billion in annualized revenue in February, doubling its revenue run rate in three months
Google launched Ask Maps and Immersive Navigation on March 12, 2026, bringing Gemini AI to Google Maps for the first time. Ask Maps lets users ask complex conversational questions, and Immersive Navigation replaces flat 2D directions with photorealistic 3D views of the road ahead
Google released Gemma 3 on March 12, 2026, a family of open-weight multimodal models in four sizes (1B, 4B, 12B, 27B) built on Gemini 2.0 technology. The models support 128k token context, 140+ languages, and image-plus-text input, with open weights on Hugging Face and Kaggle
Anthropic launched the Claude Partner Network on March 12, 2026, committing $100 million in 2026 funding to enlist major consulting firms as enterprise AI deployment partners
OpenAI is planning to integrate its Sora AI video generator directly into ChatGPT, according to a report from The Information. The move would bring AI video creation capabilities to ChatGPT's hundreds of millions of active users, dramatically expanding Sora's reach beyond its standalone app
Runway launched an internal incubator called Runway Labs on March 12, 2026, to explore applications of its generative video and world model technology outside filmmaking
ElevenLabs pledged to restore 1 million voices for free at SXSW 2026, launching the initiative on March 11 alongside the premiere of "11 Voices," a docuseries where people with voice loss narrate their own stories using AI-generated versions of their voices
Anthropic launched The Anthropic Institute on March 11, 2026, a new research organization focused on studying how advanced AI is reshaping jobs, economies, legal systems, and society at large
Nvidia invested $2 billion in Nebius, an Amsterdam-based AI cloud company, in a strategic partnership announced March 11, 2026. The deal commits to deploying more than 5 gigawatts of Nvidia systems through Nebius by 2030, adding a major new full-stack AI cloud alternative to the existing hypersca...
Perplexity launched Personal Computer at its Ask 2026 conference in San Francisco on March 11. The software runs continuously on a Mac mini, merging local files and apps with Perplexity's cloud-based Computer agent
Replit closed a $400 million Series D round at a $9 billion valuation on March 11, 2026, tripling its valuation in six months
Apple released the MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max on March 11, 2026, delivering 4x faster AI performance than the previous generation
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Super on March 11, 2026, an open-source 120B-parameter hybrid Mamba-Transformer model that delivers 5x higher throughput than its predecessor for agentic AI workloads
Netflix is paying up to $600 million for InterPositive, the AI filmmaking startup founded by Ben Affleck four years ago. The deal, confirmed by Bloomberg on March 11, 2026, ranks among Netflix's largest acquisitions ever and signals a major bet on AI-powered post-production tools
NVIDIA announced a major partnership with ComfyUI at GDC 2026 on March 10, bringing streamlined local AI video generation to game developers and creative professionals on RTX hardware
NVIDIA announced DLSS 4.5 at GDC 2026, introducing Dynamic Multi Frame Generation that automatically adjusts generated frames in real time to hit a target frame rate
Hume AI has released TADA (Text-Acoustic Dual-Alignment), an open-source text-to-speech model that eliminates a persistent problem in AI speech synthesis: hallucinated words
Adobe launched a public beta of its AI assistant for Photoshop on March 10, 2026, while simultaneously expanding Firefly with generative editing tools and integrations with 25+ third-party AI models including Runway, OpenAI, and Black Forest Labs. Adobe shipped two major updates on the same day