Meta releases Muse Spark 1.1 and opens the Meta Model API
On 9 July 2026 Meta released Muse Spark 1.1, an upgrade built for agentic tasks, with a 1-million-token context and access for developers through the Meta Model API in public preview.
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Mistral merges Le Chat into Vibe, a unified agent for work and code
On 28 May 2026 Mistral merged Le Chat into Vibe: one agent and one licence spanning work and code, adding Work Mode and sandboxed Code Mode, four tiers, and the retirement of the old Chat mode.
OpenAI starts testing ads in ChatGPT
In January 2026 OpenAI began testing ads in ChatGPT for free adult users in the US, later extending them to its Go tier. Ads appeared in March 2026, and by August the ad business was at a $1 billion annualised run rate.
Hugging Face announces Transformers v5
On 1 December 2025 Hugging Face released Transformers v5.0.0rc0, the first major version since v4 in November 2020. The library grew from about 40 architectures to more than 400.
TRAE introduces the SOLO autonomous coding mode
On 17 July 2025 TRAE announced SOLO, an autonomous coding mode that drafts a spec, then plans, builds and ships features. SOLO became generally available on 4 November 2025 with SOLO Coder and SOLO Builder.
Le Chat adds Deep Research, voice and Think modes
On 17 July 2025 Mistral AI added Deep Research to its Le Chat assistant as a preview, alongside a voice mode built on the Voxtral speech model, a Think mode built on the Magistral reasoning model, grouped chats called Projects, and image editing made with Black Forest Labs.
DeepSeek updates V3 as DeepSeek-V3-0324 under the MIT License
In March 2025 DeepSeek updated DeepSeek-V3 as DeepSeek-V3-0324 and moved the model to the MIT License, the same license used for DeepSeek-R1.
Baidu makes ERNIE Bot free ahead of schedule
On 16 March 2025 Baidu made its ERNIE Bot free for individual users, two weeks ahead of its planned 1 April date, giving free access to the ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1 models.
Tencent Yuanbao integrates DeepSeek-R1
On 13 February 2025 Tencent's Yuanbao app added DeepSeek-R1 beside Tencent's own Hunyuan models, and within days it rose to second place on China's App Store free chart.
Mistral relaunches Le Chat with mobile apps and a Pro tier
On 6 February 2025, Mistral AI released iOS and Android apps for its Le Chat assistant, alongside a $14.99 Pro tier, a Team plan and an Enterprise preview, adding fast answers, code execution and image generation.
Le Chat adds web search, Canvas and image generation
On 18 November 2024 Mistral AI added web search with citations, a Canvas workspace, image generation and reusable agents to its Le Chat assistant, all free during the beta.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT search
On 31 October 2024 OpenAI launched ChatGPT search for Plus and Team users, evolving from the SearchGPT prototype. It drew on third-party search providers and content from many news publishers, and it became free without an account in February 2025.
First Apple Intelligence features ship in iOS 18.1
On 28 October 2024 Apple released the first Apple Intelligence features as a free update to iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1 and macOS Sequoia 15.1. They brought writing tools, a more capable Siri and photo search to supported devices.
NotebookLM adds Audio Overviews
On 11 September 2024 Google added Audio Overviews to NotebookLM, turning a user's sources into a spoken discussion between two AI hosts; interactive questions came in December 2024 and Video Overviews in July 2025.
Baidu renames the ERNIE Bot app Wenxiaoyan
On 4 September 2024 Baidu upgraded and renamed its ERNIE Bot app as Wenxiaoyan (文小言), repositioning it as a "new search" assistant that combines search with text, image and multimodal generation.
ChatGPT Advanced Voice Mode rolls out to paid users
In September 2024, ChatGPT Plus and Team subscribers got Advanced Voice Mode, a real-time spoken conversation feature built on GPT-4o. Its rollout, the removal of one of its launch voices, and its later replacement trace how voice became a default part of ChatGPT.
Kimi extends its context window to 2 million Chinese characters
In March 2024 Moonshot AI opened a closed beta of its Kimi assistant with a 2 million Chinese character context window, roughly ten times what the chatbot handled at launch, and gave it to invited users first.
ChatGPT starts remembering users across conversations
In 2024 OpenAI gave ChatGPT a memory, letting it carry information about a user from one conversation to the next, with switches to turn the feature off and a temporary chat mode that leaves no memory.
Bard is renamed Gemini and Gemini Advanced launches
On 8 February 2024 Google renamed its assistant Bard to Gemini, matching the name of its model family, and launched Gemini Advanced on the Ultra 1.0 model through a paid Google One plan in more than 150 countries.
Bing Chat is renamed Microsoft Copilot
On 15 November 2023 Microsoft renamed Bing Chat and Bing Chat Enterprise to Copilot, giving the assistant its own site and a commercial version with data protection.
ChatGPT can now see, hear and speak
On 25 September 2023 OpenAI announced that ChatGPT could see, hear and speak, adding image input powered by GPT-4V and voice conversations; two days later it also gained web access to current information.