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On 26 October 2026 PFN released the weights of PLaMo 3 Translate, a 53-language translation model built on a base model from joint research with NICT, in four sizes from 0.8B to 31B and several quantised formats.
The Agentic AI Foundation reported 305 member organisations in under a year, saying agents are moving from developer experiments to institutional infrastructure.
On 22 October 2026 the Agentic AI Foundation added four projects — Agent Skills from Anthropic, Open Responses from OpenAI, OpenEnv from Hugging Face and OpenSandbox from Alibaba — bringing it to 10 hosted projects covering different layers of the agentic stack.
On 22 October 2026 Anthropic handed the Agent Skills open standard — its name, logo, GitHub organisation and domain — to the Agentic AI Foundation, a Linux Foundation project, after more than 70 agent platforms had adopted it.
On 15 October 2026, IFM and Inception42 announced Jais 3, six Arabic-centric language models from 900 million to 375 billion parameters plus a speech recogniser, evaluated on 24 audited Arabic benchmarks.
On 3 September 2026 the Institute of Foundation Models announced K2 Horizon, a fleet of six models released together, each shipped with its training data, recipe and evaluations, and steered by a router that picks the cheapest adequate model per task.
In September 2026 StepFun released Step 5 Preview as its new flagship foundation model. It is a sparse MoE with 600 billion total parameters, supports up to 1 million tokens of context, and is offered through the StepFun Open Platform API.
Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter model, as a cloud service on 3 August 2026, and published open weights for a variant of it on 12 August 2026.
On 28 July 2026 the Model Context Protocol project published a specification built on a stateless core, turning MCP into a request/response protocol whose requests any instance behind a plain round-robin load balancer can serve.
On 8 June 2026 OpenAI confirmed it had filed confidentially for an IPO with the US SEC, against a 2025 operating loss of $20.92 billion and annualised revenue above $20 billion. The listing was later pushed to 2027.
A jury in Oakland ruled for OpenAI, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and Microsoft on 18 May 2026, finding that Elon Musk's claims were filed too late under the three-year statute of limitations. Musk says he will appeal.
Baidu released ERNIE 5.1 on 9 May 2026, a model derived from ERNIE 5.0's pre-training with about a third of its total parameters and much lower training cost, after a preview build topped Chinese models on LMArena.
In May 2026 The Standard reported that StepFun had completed a funding round of about US$2.5 billion ahead of a planned Hong Kong listing, after converting into a joint-stock company in April.
In May 2026 Anthropic raised $65 billion at a $965 billion valuation, a Series H round that mixed new capital with $15 billion of earlier hyperscaler commitments, including $5 billion from Amazon.
Shengshu Technology announced a Series B round of nearly 2 billion yuan led by Alibaba Cloud, money it says will go to foundation world models for both digital generation and physical action.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
