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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 Ali Farhadi stepped down as CEO of the Allen Institute for AI after about two and a half years in the role, and founding member Peter Clark returned as interim chief executive.
On 11 March 2026 Reka released Reka Edge, a 7-billion-parameter vision-language model built for physical AI on devices rather than in the cloud, with a 3.5-bit quantization format and comparisons against Qwen3.5 9B, Cosmos Reason2 8B and Gemini 3 Pro.
Tencent launched WorkBuddy, a desktop AI agent for workplace tasks, on 9 March 2026. A global version followed in late May 2026.
On 5 March 2026 OpenAI released GPT-5.4 in Thinking and Pro versions, its first general-purpose model with native computer use; it scored 75% on OSWorld-Verified, above the 72.4% human average.
In early 2026 the Pentagon and the White House pressed Anthropic to drop its model safeguards. After the company refused, officials labeled it a supply chain risk, and a federal judge blocked that move as unlawful retaliation.
On 5 March 2026 Ai2 released Olmo Hybrid, a fully open 7B model that stacks Gated DeltaNet linear-RNN layers with attention layers in a 3:1 ratio and reaches Olmo 3's MMLU accuracy with 49% fewer training tokens.
On 4 March 2026 Microsoft released Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B, an MIT-licensed open-weight model that combines a reasoning backbone with a vision encoder and chooses how to answer each task.
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.
In early 2026 OpenAI assembled a private funding round that grew from $110 billion to $122 billion in committed capital, closing on 31 March 2026 at an $852 billion post-money valuation, with Amazon, SoftBank, Nvidia and Microsoft among the backers.
On 24 February 2026 Anthropic published version 3.0 of its Responsible Scaling Policy, a comprehensive rewrite that separates the company's own commitments from an industry-wide map linking model capabilities to mitigations.
On 20 February 2026, ggml.ai — the founding team of llama.cpp — joined Hugging Face, which is to provide long-term resources while ggml and llama.cpp stay 100% open source and community-run.
In February 2026, Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada contracted seven Agility Robotics Digit robots under a robots-as-a-service deal, after a year-long pilot, to unload totes of auto parts in a plant building RAV4 SUVs.
On 19 February 2026 Google released Gemini 3.1 Pro in preview, a model that scored 77.1% on the ARC-AGI-2 reasoning benchmark — more than double Gemini 3 Pro — and was made available the same day in the Gemini app, the Gemini API and Vertex AI.
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.
India hosted the AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi from 16 to 21 February 2026, the first edition of the global AI summit series held in the Global South. A declaration was endorsed by 92 countries and organisations, and 13 model providers signed frontier AI commitments.
In February 2026 Alibaba released Qwen3.5, a natively multimodal model family whose open flagship has 397B parameters and was posted to Hugging Face on 16 February under Apache 2.0.
On 14 February 2026 ByteDance released the Doubao-Seed-2.0 series in the Doubao app and on Volcano Engine, with Pro, Lite and Mini general agent models. Seed2.0 Pro was positioned against GPT-5.2 and Gemini 3 Pro.
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.
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.
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.
