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 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.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.6 with 1M-token context in beta, longer agent work, and stronger outputs for coding and office tasks.
OpenAI has released GPT-5.3-Codex and the Frontier orchestration platform. These tools enable enterprises to manage autonomous AI coworkers at scale.
Roblox 4D creation is now in open beta, letting creators and players generate functional, physics-driven 3D objects with Cube-powered schemas.
Google Search now runs AI Overviews on Gemini 3 worldwide, letting users move from summaries to contextual conversations without leaving results.
OpenAI introduced Prism, a free AI-native workspace that integrates GPT-5.2 into scientific writing, collaboration, and publication workflows.
X moves to block Grok image generation after UK, US, and global probes into non-consensual sexualised deepfakes involving real people.
