Xiaomi MiMo-V2 Ships Multimodal and TTS Models
Xiaomi has launched the MiMo-V2 family, featuring a multimodal model that processes audio, images, and video alongside a TTS engine capable of contextual emotion and singing synthesis.
MiniMax M2.7 Ships Self-Improving 10B Agent Model
MiniMax, the company behind the Hailuo video generation platform, released M2.7 with 10 billion activated parameters and built-in self-improvement capabilities.
Anthropic Publishes What 81,000 People Want from AI
Anthropic has published the largest multilingual qualitative AI study ever conducted, interviewing 81,000 people across 159 countries in 70 languages about what they want from AI.
Claude Dispatch Sends AI Tasks from Phone to Desktop
Anthropic has launched Dispatch, a new research preview for Claude Cowork that lets users send AI tasks from their phone and have Claude execute them on their Mac desktop.
Mistral Forge Lets Enterprises Build Custom AI Models
Mistral launched Forge at NVIDIA GTC, a platform that lets enterprises train frontier-grade AI models from scratch using their own proprietary data.
GPT-5.4 Mini and Nano Bring Cheaper AI to Every Workflow
OpenAI released GPT-5.4 mini and GPT-5.4 nano on March 17, bringing the capabilities of its flagship GPT-5.4 model to significantly smaller, faster, and cheaper packages.
Mamba-3 Open-Source SSM Rivals Transformers at 7x Speed
Researchers from CMU, Princeton, Together AI, and Cartesia AI published Mamba-3, a state-space model architecture that matches transformer performance while running inference 7x faster.
Mistral Small 4 Ships 119B Open Multimodal Model
Mistral AI released Mistral Small 4, a 119B mixture-of-experts model that unifies reasoning, multimodal vision, and coding under a single Apache 2.0 license.
NVIDIA Nemotron Coalition Unites 8 Labs for Open AI
NVIDIA launched the Nemotron Coalition at GTC, uniting Black Forest Labs, Cursor, Mistral AI, Perplexity, and four other labs to co-develop open frontier AI models.
Anthropic Drops Long-Context Premium: 1M Tokens at Standard Price
Anthropic announced on March 13 that its full 1 million token context window is now generally available for Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 at standard API pricing. The company eliminated the long-context surcharge that previously added up to 100% to the cost of requests exceeding 200,000 tokens
Meta Delays Avocado AI Model to May After Falling Behind
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
NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super: Open-Source 120B Model
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