The Agentic AI Foundation passes 300 members in under a year
The Agentic AI Foundation reported 305 member organisations in under a year, saying agents are moving from developer experiments to institutional infrastructure.
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AAIF adds Agent Skills, Open Responses, OpenEnv and OpenSandbox
On 22 October 2026 the Agentic AI Foundation added four projects — Agent Skills from Anthropic, Open Responses from OpenAI, OpenEnv from Hugging Face and OpenSandbox from Alibaba — bringing it to 10 hosted projects covering different layers of the agentic stack.
iFlytek releases device-cloud Spark X2.6
On 22 October 2026 iFlytek released Spark X2.6, a device-cloud model series, at its developer festival in Beijing. The same event also launched a speech foundation model and a digital-employee platform.
Meta releases the open-weight Muse Spark Open
On 15 October 2026 Meta released Muse Spark Open, an open-weight, natively multimodal model with 816 billion total parameters, optimised to run on Apple's Mac Studio. Its weights were published on Hugging Face.
Zhipu releases GLM-5, a 744B open model
On 12 February 2026 Zhipu released GLM-5, a 744-billion-parameter open model under the MIT License. It uses DeepSeek Sparse Attention, and its pre-training data grew from 23 trillion to 28.5 trillion tokens.
iFlytek releases Spark X2
On 11 February 2026 iFlytek released Spark X2, a large model trained entirely on domestic computing power and aimed at education, healthcare, automotive and agent use cases.
Alibaba unveils its Zhenwu PPU chip
On 29 January 2026 Alibaba's chip unit T-Head listed the Zhenwu 810E, formally revealing a PPU accelerator the company had kept under wraps and completing its combination of Qwen models, cloud and chips.
Unitree releases the H2 bionic humanoid
On 20 October 2025 Unitree announced the H2, a bionic humanoid robot with a face, 31 joints, a 180 cm frame and a 70 kg body, shown in a video performing ballet, punches, side kicks and a runway walk.
Anthropic introduces Agent Skills
On 16 October 2025 Anthropic introduced Agent Skills, folders of instructions, scripts and resources that Claude loads when a task calls for them. On 18 December 2025 the format was published as an open standard.
DeepSeek debuts sparse attention in DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp and halves API prices
DeepSeek released the experimental model DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp on 29 September 2025. It introduced DeepSeek Sparse Attention (DSA), a method aimed at cutting the cost of processing long inputs, and lowered API prices by more than 50 percent.
Huawei publishes three-year Ascend roadmap
At Huawei Connect 2025 in Shanghai, Huawei published its first three-year Ascend chip roadmap, running to 2028, alongside new Atlas SuperPoD systems and a pledge to open source CANN.
Zhipu releases GLM-4.6 with a 200K context and domestic-chip support
In late September 2025 Zhipu released GLM-4.6 under the MIT License, with a 200K-token context window, stronger coding and agent abilities, and support for Chinese domestic chips.
Linux Foundation welcomes the AGNTCY project
On 29 July 2025 the Linux Foundation welcomed AGNTCY, an open project for interoperable AI agents, with Cisco, Dell Technologies, Google Cloud, Oracle and Red Hat as formative members.
StepFun releases the open Step 3 multimodal reasoning model
In July 2025, during WAIC, StepFun released the open Step 3 multimodal reasoning model and formed a Model-Chip Ecosystem Innovation Alliance with Huawei, Biren, Moore Threads and Enflame.
Google announces the Agent2Agent protocol
On 9 April 2025 Google announced Agent2Agent (A2A), an open protocol that lets AI agents from different vendors communicate, exchange information securely and coordinate work. In June 2025 the Linux Foundation said it would host the project.
GitHub Copilot agent mode and MCP support roll out to all VS Code users
On 4 April 2025 GitHub released Copilot agent mode and MCP support to all VS Code users, letting the assistant take actions, propose commands and call external tools, with a 56.0% pass rate reported on SWE-bench Verified.
NVIDIA announces Blackwell Ultra
NVIDIA announced Blackwell Ultra at GTC in San Jose on 18 March 2025, a platform aimed at AI training and at inference that spends more compute per answer, alongside new HGX B300 NVL16 systems and named server and cloud partners.
Huawei launches the Atlas 900 A3 SuperPoD
Huawei's Atlas 900 A3 SuperPoD, launched in March 2025, links up to 384 Ascend 910C chips into one logical computer rated at up to 300 PFLOPS, and is sold in cloud form as CloudMatrix384.
iFlytek releases Spark X1, a reasoning model trained on domestic compute
On 15 January 2025 iFlytek released Spark X1, described by the company as China's first deep reasoning model trained on fully domestic compute, built with Huawei and used first in education and healthcare.
Anthropic open-sources the Model Context Protocol
On 25 November 2024 Anthropic open-sourced the Model Context Protocol, a standard for connecting AI assistants to the systems where data lives. In December 2025 Anthropic donated it to the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation.
Mistral AI releases Ministral 3B and 8B for edge devices
On 16 October 2024 Mistral AI released Ministral 3B and 8B, small models built for on-device and edge use, with 128K-token context, low per-token API prices and research access to the 8B Instruct weights.