NVIDIA’s February 16, 2026 update cites SemiAnalysis InferenceX data indicating major efficiency gains for GB300 NVL72 versus Hopper in agentic AI inference. The company also said Microsoft, CoreWeave, and OCI are deploying GB300 NVL72 for low-latency and long-context workloads.
Anthropic and Infosys announced a collaboration on February 17, 2026 to build enterprise AI agents for telecommunications, financial services, manufacturing, and software workflows. The partnership combines Claude and Claude Code with Infosys Topaz and emphasizes governance and transparency for regulated sectors.
Anthropic has donated the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation. With participation from OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and AWS, MCP becomes the standard for AI agent integration.
OpenAI and Anthropic engaged in a dramatic race to release their latest AI coding models on February 5, with Anthropic moving its announcement 15 minutes earlier and OpenAI responding with GPT-5.3-Codex, the first model that helped build itself.