OpenAIMay 24, 2026
GPT-6 multimodal preview opens to Plus tier
New voice + vision routing surfaces in the API with sub-200ms latency targets…
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AnthropicMay 21, 2026
Claude 5 Sonnet adds persistent project memory
Memory now spans workspaces; opt-in via the new Memory tab inside Projects…
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GoogleMay 19, 2026
Gemini Ultra rolls into Workspace by default
Docs, Sheets, and Meet pick up the Ultra tier without an add-on subscription…
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xAIMay 17, 2026
Grok 4 announces $6B Series D for compute
Funding earmarked for the Memphis cluster expansion and on-device variants…
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DeepSeekMay 15, 2026
DeepSeek publishes a cheaper RL training recipe
New paper claims frontier reasoning at a fraction of the GPU-hours used elsewhere…
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EUMay 13, 2026
EU finalizes the next phase of the AI Act
Transparency and disclosure rules land for anyone shipping models into Europe…
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PerplexityMay 11, 2026
Perplexity raises to expand its finance vertical
New round funds real-time market data, filings search, and an analyst mode…
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MetaMay 9, 2026
Llama 4 edge models target phones & laptops
Open weights tuned for on-device inference; runs offline with a 4-bit quant…
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