Baichuan releases the open Baichuan-M3 medical model
On 13 January 2026 Baichuan released Baichuan-M3, a new-generation open-source medical-enhanced LLM, at a media briefing.
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Apple and Google announce Gemini-based collaboration for Apple's foundation models
On 12 January 2026 Apple and Google announced a multi-year collaboration in which Google's Gemini models and cloud technology would underpin Apple's next generation of foundation models, while Apple said its privacy standards would stay unchanged.
MiniMax lists on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
MiniMax, a Chinese AI startup, began trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on 9 January 2026 under ticker 100, one day after Zhipu AI's debut, with shares rising 42.67% from the HK$165 issue price.
Zhipu lists on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Zhipu, the large language model developer also known as Knowledge Atlas Technology, listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on 8 January 2026 under ticker 2513, the first major Chinese LLM company to go public.
Boston Dynamics partners with Google DeepMind on Atlas
Boston Dynamics and Google DeepMind announced a partnership at CES 2026 to apply DeepMind's AI foundation models to Boston Dynamics robots, with the humanoid Atlas as the first test case.
Biren lists on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Biren Technology listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange's main board on 2 January 2026, drawing 23 cornerstone investors to its share offering, with its market value briefly passing HK$100 billion on the first trading day.
Anthropic launches Claude Cowork
Anthropic released Claude Cowork as a research preview in January 2026, an agentic tool that applies the approach behind Claude Code to non-coding knowledge work such as research, analysis and document creation. An enterprise release followed in February 2026.
TSMC CoWoS packaging stays sold out as AI demand outruns capacity
TSMC's CoWoS advanced packaging places logic dies and HBM stacks on a silicon interposer; capacity remains sold out, and TSMC is expanding in Tainan and Chiayi while developing panel-level CoPoS.
Cambricon MLU 690 enters mass production
Cambricon's next flagship cloud training chip, the MLU 690, entered mass production in early 2026, pairing a dual-die package with more than 700 TFLOPS of FP16 compute and 196 GB of HBM3 memory.
Insilico Medicine lists on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Insilico Medicine listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on 30 December 2025 under code 3696.HK, raising HKD 2.277 billion in what it called the largest Hong Kong biotech IPO of 2025 by funds raised.
Groq licenses its inference technology to NVIDIA in a non-exclusive deal
On 24 December 2025 Groq announced a non-exclusive licensing deal with NVIDIA for its inference technology; founder Jonathan Ross and other staff joined NVIDIA while Groq stayed independent under a new CEO.
Lovable raises a $330M Series B at a $6.6B valuation
On 18 December 2025, Lovable announced a $330M Series B at a $6.6B valuation, with new corporate and venture investors joining as the company reported rapid growth in projects built on its platform.
Volcano Engine releases Doubao Large Model 1.8 and Seedance 1.5 pro
On 18 December 2025, at its FORCE conference, Volcano Engine released Doubao Large Model 1.8 and the audio-video generation model Seedance 1.5 pro, along with agent tools and an AI savings plan.
Google releases Gemini 3 Flash
On 17 December 2025 Google released Gemini 3 Flash, a speed-oriented model that became the default in the Gemini app, with published scores of 90.4% on GPQA Diamond and 78% on SWE-bench Verified.
Databricks raises over $4 billion Series L at a $134 billion valuation
On 16 December 2025 Databricks announced a Series L of more than $4 billion at a $134 billion valuation, up 34% from its August 2025 round, alongside a $4.8 billion revenue run-rate.
NVIDIA debuts the Nemotron 3 family of open models
On 15 December 2025 NVIDIA announced the Nemotron 3 family of open models, releasing Nano at once and promising Super and Ultra in 2026 along with three trillion tokens of data.
OpenAI releases GPT-5.2 after a "code red"
On 11 December 2025 OpenAI released GPT-5.2 in Instant, Thinking and Pro versions, billing it as stronger at professional work and reporting scores that, on OpenAI's GDPval evaluation, matched or beat human experts.
Ai2 releases Molmo 2 for video understanding
On 11 December 2025 Ai2 released Molmo 2, an open-weights family of vision-language models that adds pointing, tracking and grounded question answering in video, in 8B, 4B and 7B versions.
Runway announces GWM-1, its first world model
On 11 December 2025, Runway announced GWM-1, a general world model that simulates environments in real time, released in Worlds, Avatars and Robotics variants and built on the company's Gen-4.5 model.
Upstage open-weights its 102B mixture-of-experts model
Upstage published Solar Open 100B on 10 December 2025: a 102.6-billion-parameter model that activates 12 billion parameters per token, trained on 19.7 trillion tokens and released as open weights under a company licence.
Anthropic donates MCP to the Agentic AI Foundation
On 9 December 2025, Anthropic donated MCP to the Agentic AI Foundation, a directed fund under the Linux Foundation; MCP became a founding project alongside Block's goose and OpenAI's AGENTS.md while retaining technical autonomy.