Google announces Gemini 4 Carbon
Google's frontier model announced on 28 October 2026, released first to cyber defenders and reporting leading scores on intelligence, coding and cybersecurity benchmarks.
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The Agentic AI Foundation passes 300 members in under a year
The Agentic AI Foundation reported 305 member organisations in under a year, saying agents are moving from developer experiments to institutional infrastructure.
AAIF adds Agent Skills, Open Responses, OpenEnv and OpenSandbox
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.
Anthropic donates Agent Skills to the Agentic AI Foundation
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.
Google launches Gemini 4 Argon
Google gave Gemini 4 Argon to trusted security partners in September 2026 and released it worldwide on 13 October, opening its newest frontier model to developers, enterprises and subscribers while naming Gemini 4 Carbon as the next model in the family.
IBM releases Granite 4.2 with built-in reasoning modes
IBM released the Granite 4.2 family on 25 August 2026, with native reasoning that streams inside think tags and can be switched between full, low-effort and non-thinking modes per query.
Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Max, a 2.4-trillion-parameter model
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.
MCP publishes the 2026-07-28 specification with a stateless core
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.
NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3 Ultra, a 550B open model
On 4 June 2026 NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Ultra, the largest model in its Nemotron 3 family, with 550 billion total parameters and 55 billion active per token.
Microsoft AI launches seven MAI models led by MAI-Thinking-1
On 2 June 2026 Mustafa Suleyman announced seven new in-house MAI models at Microsoft Build, led by the reasoning model MAI-Thinking-1. The group also included coding, image, transcription and voice models, and a healthcare collaboration with Mayo Clinic.
DeepSeek releases the DeepSeek-V4 preview with a 1M-token context
On 24 April 2026 DeepSeek released the DeepSeek-V4 preview, two open mixture-of-experts models with a 1M-token context that became the default across its official services. Both models support thinking and non-thinking modes.
OpenAI releases GPT-5.5
OpenAI released GPT-5.5 Thinking and GPT-5.5 Pro to paid ChatGPT users on 23 April 2026, then extended the models to Codex and the API, reporting strong benchmark results and later making a faster GPT-5.5 Instant the default.
Meta Superintelligence Labs releases Muse Spark
On 8 April 2026 Meta Superintelligence Labs released Muse Spark, the first model from the lab and the first of the Muse series. It is closed: its weights were not released, and it was offered through a private API preview.
Mistral AI releases Mistral Small 4
On 16 March 2026, Mistral AI released Mistral Small 4, a 119B mixture-of-experts model under Apache 2.0 that combines reasoning, image input and agentic coding in one model.
Microsoft releases Phi-4-reasoning-vision-15B
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.
Google releases Gemini 3.1 Pro
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.
India hosts the AI Impact Summit 2026
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.
xAI releases Grok 4.20 with a multi-agent mode
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.
Baichuan releases the open Baichuan-M3 medical model
On 13 January 2026 Baichuan released Baichuan-M3, a new-generation open-source medical-enhanced LLM, at a media briefing.
OpenAI releases GPT-5.2 after a "code red"
On 11 December 2025 OpenAI released GPT-5.2 in Instant, Thinking and Pro versions, billing it as stronger at professional work and reporting scores that, on OpenAI's GDPval evaluation, matched or beat human experts.
Anthropic donates MCP to the Agentic AI Foundation
On 9 December 2025, Anthropic donated MCP to the Agentic AI Foundation, a directed fund under the Linux Foundation; MCP became a founding project alongside Block's goose and OpenAI's AGENTS.md while retaining technical autonomy.