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On 23 March 2026 Mistral AI released Voxtral TTS, a 4B text-to-speech model with voice cloning from three seconds of audio, open weights under a non-commercial licence, and API pricing of $0.016 per 1,000 characters.
Midjourney released the V8 alpha on 17 March 2026, generating images about five times faster, with a native 2K --hd mode, improved text rendering, new prompt parameters and a Grid Mode interface. Point releases followed later that year.
PixVerse closed a Series C led by CDH Investments on 12 March 2026, saying the round made it a global AI unicorn and was Asia's largest in AI video generation. It reported more than 100 million users.
In March 2026 MiniMax released MiniMax-M2.7, a model with 229B listed parameters that the company described as its first to take part in its own evolution, and which posted strong scores on machine-learning, coding, science and competition-math benchmarks.
On 17 February 2026 Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.6 at $3 and $15 per million tokens. It became the default model for Free and Pro users on claude.ai and Claude Cowork.
In February 2026 MiniMax released MiniMax-M2.5 together with M2.5-Lightning, a variant that runs at 100 tokens per second. MiniMax said the Lightning version costs $0.3 per million input tokens and $2.4 per million output tokens.
ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 video model went live on 12 February 2026. Viral clips drew copyright complaints from the Motion Picture Association and Hollywood studios, and ByteDance later paused the global launch, according to The Information.
On 12 February 2026 Anthropic announced a $30 billion Series G at a $380 billion post-money valuation, led by GIC and Coatue, with run-rate revenue of $14 billion and Claude Code alone above $2.5 billion.
On 10 February 2026 Runway announced a $315 million Series E at a $5.3 billion valuation, nearly double its previous valuation, and said the money would fund pre-training of next-generation world models.
On 5 February 2026 OpenAI released GPT-5.3-Codex for its Codex coding agent, describing it as the most capable agentic coding model to date and saying it had helped build itself. A faster research preview, GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, followed a week later.
Kuaishou launched the Kling 3.0 series in February 2026. The series uses an All-in-One framework for text, image, audio and video, and launched globally on 5 February as four models.
On 5 February 2026 Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.6, then its smartest model, with agent teams in Claude Code and a 1M-token context window in beta. Pricing stayed at $5 and $25 per million tokens.
Kuaishou said Kling AI passed US$20 million in monthly revenue in December 2025, an annualized rate of US$240 million, 19 months after launch — a sign that generated video is becoming a paid business.
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.
On 9 December 2025 Mistral AI released Devstral 2, a 123B dense coding model, and the smaller Devstral Small 2, alongside Mistral Vibe, an open-source command-line coding agent built on them.
On 3 December 2025 Kling AI released Video 2.6, a video model that generates picture and sound together — speech, singing and ambience — with Chinese and English voices in clips of up to 10 seconds.
On 3 December 2025 Anthropic said Claude Code had reached $1 billion in run-rate revenue, and agreed to acquire Bun, a JavaScript runtime that had already worked with Anthropic on Claude Code's native installer.
On 1 December 2025 Kuaishou's Kling AI released Kling O1, which the company described as the world's first unified multimodal video model, combining video generation and editing from text, image, video and subject inputs.
On 1 December 2025 Runway released Gen-4.5, a text-to-video model that reached the top of the Artificial Analysis leaderboard at 1,247 Elo, with claimed gains in physics, scene composition, character expression and controllability.
On 1 December 2025 the German image-model developer Black Forest Labs said it had raised a $300 million Series B co-led by Salesforce Ventures and Anjney Midha's AMP, valuing the company at $3.25 billion.
MiniMax released MiniMax-M2.1, an open-weights model built for multilingual coding and tool use, with SWE-bench Multilingual rising from 56.5 to 72.5 over its predecessor M2.
