AI Today: 11 updates from Anthropic + Google DeepMind (2026-02-22)
This issue highlights significant funding updates in the AI sector.
Runway has secured new funding to scale world simulation efforts, aiming to enhance development and positive global impact. Learn more about this funding initiative.
In a major development, Anthropic raised $30 billion in Series G funding, achieving a post-money valuation of $380 billion. Discover the details of this funding round.
More highlights: Runway: Runway News | Runway Advances Video Generation and World Models W...; Anthropic: Making frontier cybersecurity capabilities available to defenders; Anthropic: Claude is a space to think | Anthropic; Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6; Anthropic: Introducing Sonnet 4.6; OpenAI: Testing ads in Chat GPT; Google DeepMind: SIMA 2: A Gemini-Powered AI Agent for 3 D Virtual Worlds; Google DeepMind: Alpha Earth Foundations helps map our planet in unpreced...; Google DeepMind: Genie 3: A new frontier for world models.
Runway News | Runway Advances Video Generation and World Models With NVIDIA Rubin Platform
Runway Advances Video Generation and World Models With NVIDIA Rubin Platform. Accelerating our video and world models research with NVIDIA's Rubin architecture.
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Runway News | New Funding to Scale World Simulation
New Funding to Scale World Simulation. Our mission is to accelerate their development and ensure they have a positive impact on the world.
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Making frontier cybersecurity capabilities available to defenders
Making frontier cybersecurity capabilities available to defenders. Claude Code Security is one step towards our goal of more secure codebases and a higher security baseline across the industry.
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Anthropic raises $30 billion in Series G funding at $380 billion post-money valuation
Anthropic raises $30 billion in Series G funding at $380 billion post-money valuation. Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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Claude is a space to think | Anthropic
Anthropic. We've made a choice: Claude will remain ad-free.
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Introducing Sonnet 4.6
Introducing Sonnet 4.6. Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a full upgrade of the model's skills across coding, computer use, long-reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work, and design.
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Testing ads in Chat GPT
Testing ads in Chat GPT. Open AI begins testing ads in Chat GPT to support free access, with clear labeling, answer independence, strong privacy protections, and user control.
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SIMA 2: A Gemini-Powered AI Agent for 3 D Virtual Worlds
SIMA 2: A Gemini-Powered AI Agent for 3 D Virtual Worlds. Introducing SIMA 2, the next milestone in our research creating general and helpful AI agents.
Read source → Alpha Earth Foundations helps map our planet in unprecedented detail
Alpha Earth Foundations helps map our planet in unprecedented detail. New AI model integrates petabytes of Earth observation data to generate a unified data representation that revolutionizes global mapping and monitoring.
Read source → Genie 3: A new frontier for world models
Genie 3: A new frontier for world models. Today we are announcing Genie 3, a general purpose world model that can generate an unprecedented diversity of interactive environments.
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Gemini 3.1 Pro: A smarter model for your most complex tasks
Gemini 3.1 Pro: A smarter model for your most complex tasks. 3.1 Pro is designed for tasks where a simple answer isn't enough.
Read source → A catalogue of genetic mutations to help pinpoint the cause of diseases
A catalogue of genetic mutations to help pinpoint the cause of diseases. New AI tool classifies the effects of 71 million 'missense' mutations Uncovering the root causes of disease is one of the greatest challenges in human genetics.
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Universal Music Group and Stability AI Announce Strategic Alliance to Co-Develop Professional AI Music Creation Tools — Stability AI
Universal Music Group and Stability AI Announce Strategic Alliance to Co-Develop Professional AI Music Creation Tools — Stability AI. Universal Music Group and Stability AI today announced a strategic alliance to develop next-generation professional music creation tools, powered by responsibly trained generative AI and built to support the creative process o...
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Cohere Labs Launches Tiny Aya, Making Multilingual AI Accessible
Cohere Labs Launches Tiny Aya, Making Multilingual AI Accessible. Open-weight AI designed for real-world languages that is powerful, adaptable, and efficient enough to run locally, even on a phone.
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Runway News | Runway Partners with AMC Networks Across Marketing and TV Development
Runway Partners with AMC Networks Across Marketing and TV Development. AMC Networks—home to acclaimed streaming services like AMC+, Acorn TV and Shudder, as well as iconic cable brands such as AMC and BBC America—is exploring new frontiers in AI-driven promotion and storytelling.
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Runway News | Runway and IMAX® Partner on Exclusive Presentation of the 2025 AI Film Festival
Runway and IMAX® Partner on Exclusive Presentation of the 2025 AI Film Festival. AI Film Festival exclusively in IMAX at 10 select locations across the United States.
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Voxtral transcribes at the speed of sound. | Mistral AI
Mistral AI. Precision diarization, real-time transcription, and a new audio playground.
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Introducing Expressive Mode for Eleven Agents
Introducing Expressive Mode for Eleven Agents. Expressive Mode gives teams unprecedented control over tone - so agents can de-escalate, reassure, and guide conversations to a clear resolution, even under pressure.
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Introducing GPT-5.3-Codex
Introducing GPT-5.3-Codex. GPT-5.3-Codex is a Codex-native agent that pairs frontier coding performance with general reasoning to support long-horizon, real-world technical work.
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Our approach to advertising and expanding access to ChatGPT
Our approach to advertising and expanding access to Chat GPT. Open AI plans to test advertising in the U.
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