AI Agent News
Track major events, funding, model releases and breakthroughs across the AI Agent landscape
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Track major events, funding, model releases and breakthroughs across the AI Agent landscape
Key events timeline
OpenClaw erupts on GitHub
OpenClaw hits global GitHub Top 10 in 10 days, outpacing the Linux kernel star growth
Meta acquires Manus for $2B
Meta acquires Manus AI for $2B, locking in the general-purpose Agent race
DeepSeek-V3 open-sourced
The value king, at just 5% of GPT-4 cost
Manus goes viral overnight
The world's first general-purpose AI Agent draws unprecedented attention
OpenAI Deep Research
OpenAI ships a deep-research Agent that generates professional reports in one click
MCP Servers pass 500
The MCP ecosystem erupts — 500+ servers built in 3 months
DeepSeek-R1 stuns the world
Open-source reasoning model at just 3% of OpenAI cost, reshaping the global AI landscape
MCP protocol born
Anthropic releases the Model Context Protocol, the de facto standard for Agent interfaces
Claude Computer Use
Anthropic lets AI directly control the computer screen for the first time, opening a new paradigm
Replit Agent full-stack automation
Natural language to a shipped product, aimed at non-engineers
Cursor ARR passes $100M
The fastest-growing SaaS ever, the new king of AI coding tools
Claude 3.5 tops SWE-bench
The strongest coding AI, bug-fixing at a junior engineer level
Devin launches
The world's first autonomous AI software engineer, able to complete full coding tasks on its own
AI Search Engines Take 8% Market Share from Google in First Half 2025
Combined AI search tools (Perplexity, ChatGPT search, Gemini, Bing AI) capture 8% of global search market share, up from 2% in 2024. Google counters with AI Overviews expansion and Gemini integration.
Big Tech Acqui-Hires 23 AI Startups in Q2 2025 Amid Hiring Freezes
Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Meta complete 23 acqui-hire transactions of AI startups in Q2 2025, absorbing AI talent as traditional hiring slows. Average deal value $50-200M for teams of 5-20 researchers.
Sam Altman World ID Reaches 10 Million Verified Users Globally
Worldcoin (now World Network) surpasses 10 million verified World ID users across 35 countries, with World App becoming a significant platform for AI-based financial services in emerging markets.
OpenAI Releases GPT-5: Breakthrough in Multimodal Reasoning
OpenAI announces GPT-5 with significant improvements in mathematical reasoning, coding, and multimodal understanding. The model demonstrates near-human performance on complex reasoning benchmarks.