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AI Market Atlas

by Pro Pluribus

Launches, retirements, renames and deals that change what a recommendation should say. Newest first.

  1. Launch
    Reflection AI ships its first model, Beam — A 501B open-weight model; NVIDIA reportedly in talks to acquire.
  2. Retired
    Moltbook removed from the Atlas — No activity since Meta's March acqui-hire.
  3. Deal
    Modal raises $750M at $15.75B — Agent sandboxes alone run at about $300M a year.
  4. Renamed
    Gemini Spark becomes Task mode inside the Gemini app
  5. Deal
    TypeSafe (Jev) raises $870M at $7.5B — Under a month after launch.
  6. Retired
    Google ends sales of Gemini Code Assist — Antigravity becomes its single coding product.
  7. Deal
    Harness acquires Augment Code's products and team — Now Harness Cosmos.
  8. Launch
    Claude Haiku 5.5 — A tenth of Haiku 4.5's price.
  9. Deal
    Moonshot (Kimi) valued at ~$50B — Hong Kong IPO targeted for Q1 2027.
  10. Renamed
    Zapier Agents becomes an "AI by Zapier" step
  11. Launch
    Gemini 4 Argon — Google's new flagship generation; broadly available 13 Oct.
  12. Launch
    GPT-6.1 Sol at OpenAI DevDay — The planned GPT-6.1 Astra was cancelled after safety testing.
  13. Launch
    Claude Sonnet 5.5
  14. Deal
    Instinct raises $1B at $10B
  15. Retired
    Gemini Gems to retire 17 Nov — They move to paid Gemini Skills.
  16. Launch
    Microsoft's unified Copilot app — Home, Code and Autopilot; Cowork inside.
  17. Retired
    Sora and Videos APIs shut down — OpenAI has no video product.
  18. Launch
    Claude Marketplace — 2,000+ plugins, connectors and partner agents.
  19. Launch
    Claude Opus 5.5; GPT-6 Sol and Luna — Two frontier launches on the same day.
  20. Launch
    Grok 4.7 — Also available in Cursor and GitHub Copilot.
  21. Renamed
    Claude chat and Cowork merge into one Claude — Plus Claude Docs and Slides.
  22. Launch
    TypeSafe AI launches Jev — A decision model that returns typed answers, not text.
  23. Retired
    Custom GPTs retirement announced — They retire 11 Dec and migrate to ChatGPT Plugins.
  24. Deal
    Cognition raises $2B+ at $48B — Devin maker; revenue near $900M.
  25. Launch
    Meta Muse personal agent — Consumer agent modeled on OpenClaw.
  26. Retired
    Grok Companions (3D avatars)
  27. Launch
    GPT-6 Astra — OpenAI's new flagship.
  28. Deal
    NVIDIA to acquire Hugging Face — $12.9B; expected to close in H1 2027.
  29. Launch
    Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1
  30. Launch
    Instinct goes public — Invite-only personal agent; $2.5B valuation on launch day.
  31. Deal
    NVIDIA licenses Poolside's model factory — $6B license plus $1B investment at $12B.
  32. Deal
    Stripe to acquire OpenRouter — About $7.5B †.
  33. Deal
    SpaceX/xAI closes Cursor acquisition — $60B, all stock.
  34. Launch
    Grok Bot beta — Always-on agent teammates.
  35. Retired
    ChatGPT Atlas browser — Its browsing moved into ChatGPT and Codex.
  36. Deal
    Cognition acquires Poke — Texting-native personal agent.
  37. Launch
    Kimi K3 — The largest open-weight model.
  38. Renamed
    NotebookLM becomes Gemini Notebook
  39. Launch
    ChatGPT Work, Sites and Plugins — ChatGPT is reorganized into Chat, Work and Codex modes.
  40. Renamed
    xAI becomes SpaceXAI — The Grok brand is unchanged.
  41. Retired
    Gemini CLI (consumer tiers) — Replaced by Antigravity CLI.
  42. Launch
    Microsoft Copilot Cowork generally available — Built with Anthropic's Cowork.
  43. Renamed
    Windsurf becomes Devin Desktop — Cognition.
  44. Deal
    Anthropic raises $65B near a $1T valuation — Confidential IPO filing followed on 1 Jun.
  45. Retired
    Roo Code shuts down — Amazon Q Developer also closed to new signups (moving to Kiro).
  46. Retired
    Google Project Mariner — Folded into Gemini Agent.
  47. Renamed
    Mistral Le Chat becomes Mistral Vibe
  48. Deal
    Microsoft–OpenAI exclusivity ends — OpenAI models can now be sold on any cloud; they reached Amazon Bedrock in June.
  49. Deal
    China blocks Meta's purchase of Manus — The deal was unwound; Manus is independent again.
  50. Retired
    Sora app shut down — The API ends 24 Sep.
  51. Launch
    Claude Design
  52. Launch
    Meta Muse Spark; Claude Managed Agents — Meta's first closed model marks its shift away from open Llama.
  53. Deal
    Meta acquires Moltbook
  54. Deal
    OpenClaw creator joins OpenAI — The project moves to an independent foundation.

Taken off or renamed on the map

  1. Atlas
    Moltbook — No activity since Meta's March 2026 acqui-hire; it no longer shapes the market. Its history stays in the timeline.
  2. Atlas
    Augment Code — Not removed but renamed: Harness bought its products and team; the entry is now Harness Cosmos.
  3. Atlas
    Gemini Spark — Not removed but renamed: Google folded it into the Gemini app as Task mode.

Compiled from public sources by Pro Pluribus; updated 16 Oct 2026. General information, not advice. Company names and logos belong to their owners and are used to identify them, without affiliation or endorsement. Terms