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On 9 June 2025 the MiniCPM team released MiniCPM4, a language model built for end-side devices, with open weights and an inference stack combining sparse attention, ternary quantization and speculative sampling.
On 9 June 2025, at WWDC, Apple introduced its second-generation foundation models and opened the on-device model to third-party apps through the Foundation Models framework, which shipped with iOS 26 in September.
Kling AI, launched in June 2024, reported a US$100 million annualized revenue run rate in March 2025 and monthly subscription bookings above RMB 100 million in April and May 2025.
In June 2025 Nature Medicine published a phase 2a trial of rentosertib, a TNIK inhibitor for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis that was discovered by an AI platform, together with early signs of a lung-function effect.
On 3 June 2025 Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced that the U.S. AI Safety Institute, housed in NIST, would become the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, a pro-innovation body focused on voluntary standards, industry testing and unclassified national-security evaluations.
In June 2025 MiniMax released MiniMax-M1, an open reasoning model with a native 1-million-token context. It has 456B total parameters and was released under Apache 2.0, and its design was compared with DeepSeek R1 in the release figures.
In June 2025 Perplexity closed a $500 million round at a $14 billion valuation, up from about $520 million in January 2024, as its annual recurring revenue grew from single-digit millions toward $200 million.
In June 2025 EleutherAI and its partners released Common Pile v0.1, an 8 TB collection of public-domain and openly licensed text for training language models. The team also used it to train two 7B models.
On 29 May 2025 Black Forest Labs introduced FLUX.1 Kontext, a model family for editing existing images from instructions, released in closed and open-weight forms.
On 28 May 2025 DeepSeek released DeepSeek-R1-0528, an updated version of DeepSeek-R1 under the MIT License, which raised AIME 2025 accuracy from 70.0% to 87.5%.
Salesforce agreed in May 2025 to buy data-management company Informatica for about $8 billion, folding its catalog, integration and governance products into Salesforce's platform for agentic AI. The deal closed on 18 November 2025.
On 23 May 2025 Sarvam AI released Sarvam-M, an open-weights Indic model built on Mistral Small, publishing the weights, a playground and APIs at the same time.
On 22 May 2025 Anthropic switched on its AI Safety Level 3 deployment and security protections alongside the launch of Claude Opus 4, a precautionary and provisional step it said was prompted by continuing gains in chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear knowledge and capabilities.
On 22 May 2025 Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, hybrid models with extended thinking and tool use. Anthropic called Opus 4 the world's best coding model, and Claude Code became generally available the same day.
On May 21, 2025, LMArena announced a $100 million seed round led by a16z and UC Investments at a reported $600 million valuation, alongside a platform relaunch.
Aurora is a foundation model for the Earth system whose Nature paper, published on 21 May 2025 and promoted by Microsoft Research the same month, reports better than operational forecasts across four domains at far lower compute.
On 21 May 2025 OpenAI announced it was acquiring io, the AI hardware startup founded by designer Jony Ive, in an all-stock deal valuing io at about $6.5 billion and putting Ive in charge of OpenAI's hardware and design work.
On 21 May 2025 Mistral AI and All Hands AI released Devstral, an openly licensed coding model built to work as an agent on real software issues, scoring 46.8% on SWE-Bench Verified.
At Google I/O on 20 May 2025, Google introduced Veo 3, a video generation model that produces audio alongside video, together with the image model Imagen 4, the music model Lyria 2 and the AI filmmaking tool Flow.
On 20 May 2025, Google opened Jules, its asynchronous coding agent, to everyone in a public beta; it runs on Gemini 2.5 Pro and works on users' GitHub repositories inside Google Cloud.
On 19 May 2025 GitHub opened a public preview of a Copilot coding agent: assign it an issue and it works in a GitHub Actions-powered cloud environment, changes code, runs the project's tests and linter, then hands back a pull request for review.
