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What changed in AI: March 2026

AI Market Atlas · by Pro Pluribus

Market changes

Mar 2026Deal
Meta acquires Moltbook

Headlines

31 Mar 2026OpenAIOpenAI closes a record $122B round at an $852B valuationThe largest private funding round ever, co-led by SoftBank, with $3B from retail investorsCNBC ↗
31 Mar 2026OpenClawOpenClaw reaches 500,000 instances with no enterprise kill switchAdoption at scale is outrunning governance, and CISOs lack central controlVentureBeat ↗
30 Mar 2026Copilot CoworkCopilot Cowork opens to Frontier program customersBroadened access from research preview to early-adopter enterprisesMicrosoft 365 Blog ↗
25 Mar 2026HarveyHarvey raises $200M at $11B valuationGIC and Sequoia lead as Harvey scales agents across law firms and enterprisesCNBC ↗
25 Mar 2026GranolaGranola raises $125M at a $1.5B valuationIndex led the round after a quarter of 250% revenue growth. Granola is expanding from a notetaker into an enterprise context app.TechCrunch ↗
19 Mar 2026GitHub CopilotCopilot coding agent now starts work 50% fasterFaster startup narrows the gap with standalone async agentsGitHub Changelog ↗
19 Mar 2026AI Studio · Opal · StitchStitch update adds multi-screen generation and interactive prototypingStitch is moving from mockup tool to full vibe-design canvasTech Insider ↗
17 Mar 2026GammaGamma launches Gamma Imagine for AI image and brand assetsGamma moves beyond decks into brand graphics, competing directly with Canva and Adobe.TechCrunch ↗
17 Mar 2026MidjourneyMidjourney V8 alpha launches with 5x speed and native 2KMidjourney's first major model generation since V7, with better prompt adherence and personalization.Midjourney Updates ↗
16 Mar 2026CometComet climbs to number 3 overall on the iOS App StoreGoing free and launching on iOS drove mass adoption of the first mainstream agentic browserMWM ↗
16 Mar 2026SeedanceByteDance pauses the global Seedance 2.0 launch after Hollywood disputesDisney, Netflix, Paramount and WBD sent cease-and-desist letters over the viral photorealistic clips.TechNode ↗
12 Mar 2026OLMoAi2 advances physical AI with simulation-trained robotsAi2's open research now reaches beyond language models into roboticsThe Letter Two ↗
12 Mar 2026OpenClawChina embraces OpenClaw, then moves to restrict itChinese authorities barred state firms and agencies from running it on office computers over security fearsFast Company ↗
11 Mar 2026LovableLovable added $100M revenue in one month with 146 employeesExtreme revenue per employee in the vibe-coding categoryTechCrunch ↗
11 Mar 2026ReplitReplit raises $400M at a $9B valuationValuation tripled in six months, and Replit targets a $1B run-rate by end of 2026Replit ↗
10 Mar 2026LegoraLegora reaches a $5.55B valuation with a $550M Series DThe Accel-led round tripled its valuation and funds the US push against Harvey.TechCrunch ↗
10 Mar 2026PerplexityAmazon wins court order blocking Perplexity's AI shopping agentThis was the first major legal test of AI agents acting on logged-in sites for users. It was later overturned on appeal.CNBC ↗
9 Mar 2026AMI LabsAMI Labs raises $1.03B to build world modelsA very large European seed; Bezos Expeditions, NVIDIA and Samsung among the investors.TechCrunch ↗
9 Mar 2026Copilot CoworkMicrosoft unveils Copilot Cowork, a task-completing agent for M365Microsoft's answer to Claude Cowork returns completed deliverables, not drafts, inside the Office ecosystemMicrosoft 365 Blog ↗
5 Mar 2026CursorCursor launches Automations for trigger-driven background agentsAgents now start from Slack, code changes or timers, with no human prompt neededTechCrunch ↗
4 Mar 2026Base44Base44 passes $100M ARR nine months after the Wix dealValidates Wix's acquisition and the non-developer app-builder segmentCTech ↗
3 Mar 2026OpenClawOpenClaw passes React as GitHub's most-starred software projectReached about 250K stars in roughly 60 days, the fastest-growing repo in GitHub historyThe New Stack ↗
Mar 2026Agent SkillsAgent Skills adopted across major coding agents within about 12 weeksOpenAI, Microsoft, JetBrains, Cursor and Google shipped compatible support soon after the Dec 2025 specSangam Pandey ↗
Mar 2026Claude CodeClaude Code CLI source code leaks, exposing unreleased featuresThis was a security and IP incident at the category leader and revealed its roadmapWikipedia ↗
Mar 2026ZedGram fork launches in protest at Zed's AI features and termsThis shows backlash against AI in editors, and Zed changed its terms the same dayWikipedia ↗
Mar 2026GensparkGenspark extends Series B to $385M at $1.6B valuationFast repricing shows investor appetite for general-purpose agent workspacesThe SaaS News ↗
Mar 2026DecagonDecagon completes first employee tender at $4.5BMore than 300 employees could sell shares, a sign of investor confidence after its January Series DSacra ↗
Mar 2026WriterWriter launches Agent Skills creator and Playbook builderNon-technical staff can build production agent capabilities in plain languageYahoo Finance ↗
Mar 2026SuperhumanGrammarly Authorship now attributes work to specific AI agentsA first-of-its-kind feature that tracks agent contributions and supports Superhuman's agent-platform positioning.Superhuman (Grammarly blog) ↗

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