AI Agents, AI Infrastructure
AWS introduced a preview capability for Amazon Bedrock that lets multiple agents collaborate on complex tasks.
Free: No API: Yes Open: No
- Company
- Amazon Web Services
- Pricing
- Usage-based AWS and Amazon Bedrock pricing applies.
AI Image Tools, AI Infrastructure, AI Video Tools
AWS introduced Amazon Nova, a family of foundation models for text, multimodal understanding, image generation, and video generation in Amazon Bedrock.
Free: No API: Yes Open: No
- Company
- Amazon Web Services
- Pricing
- Usage-based pricing through Amazon Bedrock and AWS services.
AI Agents, AI Infrastructure
Microsoft unveiled Azure AI Foundry as a unified application platform for designing, customizing, managing, and governing AI solutions.
Free: No API: Yes Open: No
- Company
- Microsoft
- Pricing
- Azure usage-based pricing applies across the services and models used inside Azure AI Foundry.
AI Coding Tools, AI Productivity Tools
StackBlitz launched Bolt.new, a browser-based AI app builder that can generate, run, edit, and deploy full-stack web apps using WebContainers.
Free: Yes API: No Open: No
- Company
- StackBlitz
- Pricing
- Bolt.new offers free and paid usage paths through StackBlitz/Bolt access, with limits depending on plan.
AI Search Tools
OpenAI launched ChatGPT search, bringing web answers with source links into ChatGPT conversations.
Free: Yes API: No Open: No
- Company
- OpenAI
- Pricing
- Initially rolled out by plan and region; later OpenAI expanded availability. Current access depends on ChatGPT availability and plan rules.
AI Coding Tools
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.1 as an upgrade to Opus 4 for agentic tasks, real-world coding, and reasoning.
Free: No API: Yes Open: No
- Company
- Anthropic
- Pricing
- Available to paid Claude users, Claude Code, Anthropic API, and cloud partners at the same pricing as Opus 4 at launch.
AI Coding Tools
Mistral AI released Codestral 25.01 as an upgraded coding model with a more efficient architecture, improved tokenizer, and faster code generation and completion.
Free: Yes API: Yes Open: No
- Company
- Mistral AI
- Pricing
- Available through IDE partners and the Codestral API, with enterprise deployment options for private environments.
AI Coding Tools
OpenAI introduced Codex as a cloud-based software engineering agent that works on coding tasks in parallel in isolated environments.
Free: No API: No Open: No
- Company
- OpenAI
- Pricing
- Launched for ChatGPT Pro, Business, and Enterprise users, with Plus access added later; current access depends on ChatGPT plan.
AI Infrastructure, AI Productivity Tools
Cohere introduced Command R+, an enterprise-focused model optimized for retrieval augmented generation, tool use, multilingual work, and long context.
Free: No API: Yes Open: No
- Company
- Cohere
- Pricing
- Usage-based access through Cohere and cloud partner platforms.
AI Infrastructure, AI Open-Weight Models
Cohere released Command R7B, a compact R-series model focused on speed, efficiency, RAG, tool use, and agentic behavior.
Free: Yes API: Yes Open: Yes
- Company
- Cohere
- Pricing
- Available through Cohere Platform pricing and open weights on Hugging Face.
AI Open-Weight Models, AI Research Tools
DeepSeek released DeepSeek-R1 and DeepSeek-R1-Zero, open reasoning models with distilled variants based on Qwen and Llama models.
Free: Yes API: Yes Open: Yes
- Company
- DeepSeek
- Pricing
- MIT-licensed repository and model weights; usage costs depend on self-hosting, inference provider, or DeepSeek platform/API access.
AI Open-Weight Models
DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V3, a large mixture-of-experts language model with open weights and a technical report available through GitHub and Hugging Face.
Free: Yes API: Yes Open: Yes
- Company
- DeepSeek
- Pricing
- Model weights are available for download; usage costs depend on self-hosting, inference provider, or DeepSeek platform/API access.
AI Voice/Audio Tools
ElevenLabs introduced Eleven v3 alpha, a more expressive text-to-speech model with multi-speaker dialogue, audio tags, and 70-plus languages.
Free: Yes API: Yes Open: No
- Company
- ElevenLabs
- Pricing
- ElevenLabs launched v3 in the UI with promotional pricing through June 2025 and later API availability; current pricing depends on plan and endpoint.
AI Image Tools, AI Open-Weight Models
Black Forest Labs launched and released the FLUX.1 suite of text-to-image models, including commercial and open-weight variants.
Free: Yes API: Yes Open: Yes
- Company
- Black Forest Labs
- Pricing
- FLUX.1 includes commercial API access and open-weight variants with license differences by model.
AI Coding Tools
Google released early access to an updated Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview focused on coding and building rich interactive web apps.
Free: Yes API: Yes Open: No
- Company
- Google
- Pricing
- Available through the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and Vertex AI; current pricing depends on Google developer platform rates.
AI Coding Tools, AI Infrastructure
GitHub introduced Copilot Extensions so partners and developer tools could connect into Copilot Chat experiences.
Free: No API: Yes Open: No
- Company
- GitHub
- Pricing
- Requires relevant GitHub Copilot and partner tool access.
AI Developer Tools, AI Infrastructure
GitHub introduced GitHub Models as a way for developers to experiment with and build against multiple AI models from inside GitHub workflows.
Free: Yes API: Yes Open: No
- Company
- GitHub
- Pricing
- Preview access and production usage depend on GitHub and Azure model access paths.
AI Coding Tools, AI Productivity Tools
GitHub Spark entered public preview for Copilot Pro+ subscribers as a natural-language app building tool connected to the GitHub platform.
Free: No API: No Open: No
- Company
- GitHub
- Pricing
- Public preview access was tied to GitHub Copilot Pro+ subscriptions.
AI Agents, AI Productivity Tools
xAI unveiled Grok 3 beta and Grok 3 mini, positioning the release around reasoning, coding, math, world knowledge, and agent-style behavior.
Free: No API: Yes Open: No
- Company
- xAI
- Pricing
- Availability and pricing vary by Grok, X, and xAI API access path.
AI Image Tools
Ideogram released version 3.0 with stronger realism, design generation, style references, and text/layout rendering.
Free: Yes API: Yes Open: No
- Company
- Ideogram
- Pricing
- Available through Ideogram web and app plans, with API pricing listed separately.
AI Coding Tools
Google launched Jules in public beta as an asynchronous coding agent that reads code, plans tasks, makes changes, and integrates with GitHub workflows.
Free: Yes API: No Open: No
- Company
- Google
- Pricing
- Public beta access was available broadly; ongoing limits and pricing depend on Google's current Jules plans and product packaging.
AI Agents, AI Coding Tools
Kiro launched in preview as an agentic IDE focused on spec-driven development and AI-assisted software delivery.
Free: Yes API: No Open: No
- Company
- Amazon Web Services
- Pricing
- The preview release was available through Kiro access; pricing and availability changed as the product matured.
AI Productivity Tools
Mistral AI unveiled a new Le Chat assistant with mobile apps, Pro and Team tiers, Flash Answers, news access, image generation, and document uploads.
Free: Yes API: No Open: No
- Company
- Mistral AI
- Pricing
- Mistral announced most features free with upgraded limits for Pro users starting at $14.99 per month at launch.
AI Open-Weight Models
Meta introduced the Llama 4 herd with Scout and Maverick as open-weight natively multimodal mixture-of-experts models, plus a Behemoth preview.
Free: Yes API: Yes Open: Yes
- Company
- Meta
- Pricing
- Weights and partner platform access are available; actual cost depends on hosting, inference provider, and hardware requirements.
