Meta – Nvidia deal scales to millions of Nvidia GPUs and adds standalone Grace CPUs, plus confidential computing designed for WhatsApp AI processing.
Claude Sonnet 4.6 narrows the gap with Opus 4.6, offering 1M token context, improved coding, and stronger office automation at lower cost.
ByteDance introduces Safeguards to Seedance 2.0 following legal threats from Disney and Paramount and warnings from the Motion Picture Association and SAG-AFTRA.
Alibaba introduced Qwen3.5 on February 16, 2026, pairing open-weight release with a hosted 1M-context model and efficiency gains designed for AI agents.
ByteDance unveiled Doubao 2.0 ahead of Lunar New Year 2026, positioning it for agent-style AI tasks with advanced reasoning and significantly reduced usage costs.
Anthropic closed a $30 billion Series G round at a $380 billion valuation, driven by Claude Code revenue growth and accelerating enterprise AI adoption.
ByteDance released Seedance 2.0 in February 2026, enabling multimodal AI video generation with audio. Hollywood groups including the Motion Picture Association and SAG-AFTRA condemned the model over copyright concerns.
MiniMax unveiled M2.5 and M2.5-Lightning AI models that approach frontier coding performance while sharply lowering costs, with OpenHands adding external support for long-run agent use.
OpenAI is testing ads in ChatGPT in the U.S. for Free and Go tiers. Sponsored content is labeled, excluded from sensitive topics, and can be limited or opted out.
