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
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 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
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
Black Forest Labs, the team behind the FLUX image generation models, published Self-Flow on March 10, 2026: an open-source framework that trains image, video, and audio generation models 2.8x faster without requiring external encoders
Runway launched Runway Characters on March 9, 2026, a real-time video agent API that turns any image into a fully expressive, conversational digital persona
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
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
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