On this day: Aug 11

8 records from this date, 2025 to 2026, gathered year by year — the most recent year first.

2026

This year · 6 records
xAI launches Grok Bot in early betaxAI

A shift in the product axis from chatbots to resident autonomous agents

CoreWeave reports Q2 2026 resultsCoreWeave

The leverage of the neocloud structure, which owns and leases out GPUs using debt backed by its backlog

Igor Babuschkin's River AI raises $1.1 billion seed/Series ARiver AI (Igor Babuschkin)

The extreme of the new-lab capital cycle, with $1.1 billion going into a 2-month-old company

Mistral AI makes EU/US regional endpoints GA, adds European Compute UnitsMistral AI

A financing structure that converts customers' advance purchases into infrastructure equity. 1GW is a target for 2030, not capacity currently in operation

Spotify announces AI Persona badges for AI-generated artist identitiesSpotify

The first case of a major platform creating an AI persona category and, going beyond labeling, structurally treating it differently in its recommendation algorithms

Modular releases Mojo 1.0, open-sources compiler and tooling under Apache 2.0Modular

The language is stabilized and fully opened 3 years after its 2023 announcement. An alternative language to CUDA C++ offers a production-grade stability contract for the first time

2025

1 year ago · 2 records
Nvidia and AMD reportedly agree to pay US 15% of China AI chip revenueNvidia, AMD, US government

Export controls in effect turned into a negotiation over tariffs and revenue sharing

Voyage AI launches rerank-2.5 and rerank-2.5-liteVoyage AI (MongoDB)

Rerankers change from fixed functions into components steered by instructions. Comparison figures are the vendor's own measurements