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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.
Apptronik reopened its Series A in February 2026, raising the round to $935 million at a reported $5.3 billion valuation, as the humanoid robot maker pushes Apollo into warehouse and industrial work.
On 11 February 2026 iFlytek released Spark X2, a large model trained entirely on domestic computing power and aimed at education, healthcare, automotive and agent use cases.
Robert Playter announced on 10 February 2026 that he was stepping down as Boston Dynamics CEO after 30 years at the company; CFO Amanda McMaster took interim charge while a successor was sought.
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.
On 2 February 2026 SpaceX acquired xAI in an all-stock deal. A memo to employees put the combined company at $1.25 trillion, and LSEG data showed it to be the largest merger on record. The AI unit was renamed SpaceXAI in July 2026.
In February 2026 StepFun released Step 3.5 Flash, an Apache 2.0 Mixture-of-Experts model with 196 billion total parameters, tool use and a 256K-token context. Its technical report was posted on 11 February.
In February 2026 Perplexity released Perplexity Computer, a general-purpose AI agent that splits a request into tasks and subtasks and hands them to sub-agents run on different models, offered first to Max subscribers.
In February 2026, Mistral AI acquired Koyeb, a Paris-based startup offering high-performance serverless infrastructure. It was Mistral's first acquisition and brought 13 employees, with Koyeb's product and expertise to support environments such as sandboxes and MCP servers.
Grok 4.20 was released in February 2026, the month xAI became a SpaceX subsidiary. Its multi-agent version, in which agents collaborate on deep research, went live in the API in March 2026.
In February 2026 OpenAI raised $110 billion at a $730 billion valuation, led by Amazon's $50 billion — at the time the largest private technology fundraise in history — a round that later closed at $122 billion.
On 29 January 2026 Alibaba's chip unit T-Head listed the Zhenwu 810E, formally revealing a PPU accelerator the company had kept under wraps and completing its combination of Qwen models, cloud and chips.
On 28 January 2026 StepFun announced a Series B+ funding round of more than 5 billion yuan, described as a record for China's AI model sector. Yin Qi became chairman, while Jiang Daxin remained CEO.
On 27 January 2026 Moonshot AI released Kimi K2.5, an open-weight multimodal model with an Agent Swarm feature that splits complex tasks among up to 100 sub-agents, launched alongside the Kimi Code command-line tool.
On 22 January 2026 Anthropic published a new constitution for Claude. It explains the reasoning behind desired behaviour, ranks Claude's priorities, and is released under a CC0 1.0 licence.
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.
Skild AI, a maker of general-purpose robotic software, raised $1.4 billion in a Series C led by SoftBank, valuing the company at more than $14 billion.
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.
