#product-launch

Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.1 Pro on February 19, achieving 77.1% on ARC-AGI-2—more than double its predecessor's 31.1%—with a 1M-token context window and 80.6% on SWE-Bench Verified.

Anthropic launched Claude in PowerPoint, a Microsoft 365 add-in that generates and edits slides from natural language prompts while respecting existing themes. Available as a research preview for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers.

NVIDIA unveiled the N1 and N1X on February 23, its first consumer SoC combining Arm CPUs with Blackwell GPU architecture for AI PCs. Dell, HP, and Lenovo laptops are expected in spring 2026, marking NVIDIA's bold entry into the PC processor market.

Ollama 0.17, released February 22, introduces a new native inference engine replacing llama.cpp server mode, delivering up to 40% faster prompt processing and 18% faster token generation on NVIDIA GPUs, plus improved multi-GPU tensor parallelism and AMD RDNA 4 support.

Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro achieves 77.1% on ARC-AGI-2—more than doubling the previous Gemini 3 Pro's score. The mid-cycle upgrade brings Deep Think-level reasoning capabilities to all users and developers.

NVIDIA announced a multigenerational strategic partnership with Meta on February 17, covering millions of Blackwell and Rubin GPUs, the first large-scale Grace CPU deployment, and WhatsApp privacy computing via NVIDIA Confidential Computing.

At the India AI Summit on February 17, Cohere released Tiny Aya, a family of 3.35B open-weight multilingual models supporting 70+ languages that run offline on standard laptops, targeting global language accessibility.

WordPress.com launched a built-in AI assistant on February 17, enabling Business and Commerce plan users to edit text, generate images via Google's Nano Banana models, and modify layouts through natural language commands.

ByteDance released Doubao 2.0 ahead of Lunar New Year, claiming GPT-5.2 and Gemini 3 Pro parity with 98.3 on AIME 2025, a 3020 Codeforces rating, and pricing 10x cheaper than Western rivals.

xAI released Grok 4.20 as a public beta on February 17, introducing a continuous post-deployment learning architecture that updates the model weekly from user feedback. The release also adds a four-agent collaboration system and medical document analysis via photo upload.

ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 accepts text, images, video clips, and audio simultaneously to generate up to 20-second 1080p video, drawing immediate copyright cease-and-desist letters from Disney and Paramount within days of launch.