#product-launch

At MWC 2026, HONOR debuted its long-teased Robot Phone featuring a 200MP camera on a 4-DoF gimbal that physically nods and reacts to gestures, alongside a choreography-demonstrating humanoid robot.

Anthropic launched Claude Cowork plugins that embed Claude natively into Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Slack, Gmail, and Google Drive—enabling autonomous cross-app workflows for enterprise users.

Inception Labs has released Mercury 2, the first production-ready diffusion language model for reasoning. Running at over 1,000 tokens per second on Blackwell GPUs, it is dramatically faster and cheaper than leading autoregressive competitors.

Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S26 series on February 25, featuring Google Gemini's agentic AI that can autonomously operate third-party apps like Uber on a user's behalf — the first smartphone to offer true multi-step AI task execution.

Following President Trump's order barring federal agencies from using Anthropic products, Claude surged to the top of the US App Store's free apps chart, with daily signups hitting all-time records and free users growing over 60% since January.

Alphabet's robotics software company Intrinsic moved from 'Other Bets' into Google proper on February 25, gaining direct access to Gemini models, Google Cloud, and DeepMind research. The strategy mirrors Android: one platform running across FANUC, KUKA, and Universal Robots hardware.

NVIDIA revealed detailed specs for Vera Rubin NVL72. Each Rubin GPU delivers 50 PFLOPS inference (5x Blackwell GB200), 22 TB/s HBM4 bandwidth (2.8x Blackwell), and cuts inference cost per million tokens by 10x. Ships H2 2026.

Chinese smartphone maker Honor unveiled its first consumer humanoid robot and a motorized camera Robot Phone at MWC 2026 in Barcelona, backed by a $10 billion AI investment as part of its ALPHA PLAN initiative.

Google pulled Alphabet's Intrinsic robotics software from Other Bets into the main company, pairing it with Gemini AI and DeepMind to create a common software platform for industrial robots.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 achieves 72.5% on OSWorld—just 0.2 points below Opus 4.6—with a 1M-token context window in beta. At $3/$15 per million tokens, it brings flagship-class agentic capabilities to a mid-tier price point.

World Labs, the startup from AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, has raised $1 billion to scale its spatial intelligence technology. Autodesk leads with $200M, alongside Andreessen Horowitz, Nvidia, and AMD.

xAI released Grok 4.20 beta on February 17, 2026, featuring medical document analysis via photo upload and a 4-agent parallel collaboration system for improved reasoning on complex tasks.