Microsoft is set to unveil MAI-Transcribe-1.5, MAI-Image-2.5 and 2.5e, and MAI-Voice-2 at Build, expanding speech, image editing, and multilingual voice for Copilot, Teams, and Azure as it reduces reliance on OpenAI.
Recent Perplexity builds point to a daily digest for Computer, drawing from email, drives, GitHub, Linear, and Notion. Memory-based context and Slack delivery are planned, with production testing hinting at a launch within weeks.
Explee launched AutoGTM, a 24/7 AI sales agent that turns a website URL into a live outbound pipeline in about two minutes. It finds prospects, verifies contacts, writes personalized emails, and sends sequenced outreach at $0.03 per email.
Anthropic added dynamic workflows to Claude Code, enabling parallel subagents to plan, execute, verify, and recover large coding projects. Available on Max, Team, and API, with admin controls for Enterprise access.
Google Cloud has made Nano Banana 2 and Pro generally available for enterprise image generation and editing, offering secure, scalable output up to 2K, 4K preview, and video-to-image prompts for creative, retail, and media workflows.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 globally at the same price as 4.7, with gains in coding, reasoning, agentic work, and reliability. Fast mode is 2.5x faster at one-third the prior cost, with new effort control and workflow tools.
ElevenLabs introduced a new Dubbing v2 Alpha model that can translate speech across all languages while preserving the emotional tone of the original content.
Anthropic raised $65 billion in Series H at a $965 billion post-money valuation.
> Global enterprises across industries are deploying Claude in their core operations, and a growing number of people around the world use it for their everyday work
A huge chunk of this growth was triggered by Claude Code. Focusing on coding capabilities and tooling expectedly ended up being the right focus.
