Apple rushes three AI devices into development for 2026-2027 launch including smart glasses, camera-equipped AirPods, and AI pendant, despite major doubts about the company's AI execution capabilities following disappointing Apple Intelligence rollout.
Efficient Computer secures $60 million in Series A funding to develop revolutionary AI processors that enable battery-powered devices to run for months or years using spatial dataflow architecture that eliminates energy waste.
Apple abruptly halts its planned Vision Pro headset overhaul and redirects resources toward developing AI-powered smart glasses to directly challenge Meta's dominance in the emerging wearable tech market.
Meta signs a massive multiyear deal with Nvidia for millions of CPUs and GPUs to supercharge its AI infrastructure, marking the first large-scale Grace-only deployment, as Big Tech's combined AI spending in 2026 is projected to surpass the total cost of the Apollo space program.
Meta strikes massive multibillion-dollar deal with Nvidia to deploy millions of AI chips across data centers, becoming first company to use Nvidia's standalone Grace CPUs as part of ambitious $600 billion infrastructure expansion through 2028.
Seventeen US AI companies raise over $100 million each in just seven weeks of 2026, with Anthropic securing a massive $30 billion round at $380 billion valuation and xAI raising $20 billion, signaling unprecedented investor appetite for artificial intelligence ventures.
Cohere launches Tiny Aya, a groundbreaking family of open-weight AI models supporting over 70 languages that can run offline on laptops, featuring specialized regional variants for African, South Asian, and Asia Pacific languages with 3.35 billion parameters available for free download.
French AI unicorn Mistral AI makes its first acquisition by purchasing Paris-based cloud startup Koyeb, gaining 13 employees and serverless technology to optimize GPU usage and scale AI model deployment as part of its ambitious push to become a full-stack AI infrastructure provider.
Cohere Labs releases Tiny Aya, a groundbreaking 3.35-billion parameter AI model that supports over 70 languages and runs directly on mobile phones, featuring specialized regional variants for different global areas while achieving state-of-the-art multilingual performance at unprecedented efficiency levels.
Mistral AI acquires Koyeb in a massive $1.4 billion expansion, deploying 18,000 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs across 40 MW of data center capacity in Sweden while integrating Koyeb's platform into its Mistral Compute offering and discontinuing free starter plans for new users.