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Marvell agreed on 2 November 2026 to buy optical chip and networking equipment maker Lumentum in an all-stock deal valued at $115 billion including debt, one of the largest technology acquisitions on record.
Runway published GWM Worlds 2 on 3 September 2026, a research preview that turns high-fidelity video and audio generation into a real-time interactive world model steered by text actions and camera motion.
On 8 July 2026 Mistral AI introduced Robostral Navigate, an 8-billion-parameter model that steers robots from camera images and spoken-style instructions, trained entirely in simulation and scoring 76.6% on a standard navigation benchmark.
On 29 June 2026 the Council of the EU gave final approval to a regulation streamlining the bloc's AI rules, carried in the Omnibus VII package; the amendments entered into force on 27 July 2026.
On 9 April 2026 LG AI Research released EXAONE 4.5, its first open-weight multimodal model: a 33B vision-language system aimed at document understanding, with a 256K context window and the earlier EXAONE licence.
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.
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.
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.
On 19 November 2025 the European Commission proposed a digital omnibus on AI that would tie high-risk AI obligations to the availability of standards, stretch their start to at most 16 months, add a 2028 sandbox and strengthen the AI Office.
On 19 November 2025 Meta released SAM 3, which detects, segments and tracks objects from text or visual prompts, and SAM 3D, which reconstructs 3D objects and human bodies from a single image. Both were released as open models.
On 4 November 2025 the High Court of England and Wales ruled in Getty Images v Stability AI, rejecting Getty's secondary copyright claim but finding very limited trademark infringement over watermarks in some outputs.
In November 2025 Baidu released ERNIE-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-Thinking, an open-weight vision-language model that reasons with images — zooming into details and calling image search mid-thought — and reports a ChartQA score above Gemini 2.5 Pro and GPT-5.
On 20 October 2025 DeepSeek released DeepSeek-OCR under the MIT License. The model showed that rendering text as images can reduce the number of vision tokens needed for OCR, with decoding precision of about 97 percent at compression under 10x.
Signed by Governor Gavin Newsom on 29 September 2025, California's Senate Bill 53 sets state-level oversight and incident-reporting rules for the most advanced AI models, while leaving room to align with future federal standards.
Databricks closed a $1 billion Series K in September 2025 at a valuation above $100 billion, weeks after signing the term sheet, and disclosed a $4 billion revenue run-rate with more than $1 billion of it from AI products.
ByteDance Seed posted the UI-TARS-2 technical report on 2 September 2025 and released it on GitHub on 4 September. It was trained with multi-turn reinforcement learning.
Four Chinese departments issued measures requiring labels on AI-generated text, audio, images and video, in explicit and file-metadata form, effective 1 September 2025.
In September 2025 Alibaba released Qwen3-VL, a vision-language model family under Apache 2.0 whose flagship handles hours-long video, operates PC and mobile interfaces and does 3D grounding.
A class action by authors against Anthropic ended in a $1.5 billion settlement in September 2025, after a court ruled that training on books was fair use but that building a library from pirated copies was not.
GLM-4.5V is a vision-language model released by Zhipu on 11 August 2025, built on GLM-4.5-Air and published under the MIT License; Zhipu reported state-of-the-art results among similarly sized models on 42 vision-language benchmarks.
From 2025, the Yomiuri Shimbun, Encyclopædia Britannica, Reddit and others sued the AI answer engine Perplexity over how it uses their content, opening a multi-country test of copyright law.
