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
Groq, Cerebras, and Tenstorrent Raise Combined $3B for AI Inference Chips
Three AI chip startups Groq, Cerebras Systems, and Tenstorrent raise combined $3 billion to challenge NVIDIA AI inference dominance. Groq achieves 800 tokens/second for Llama 70B at lower cost than GPU-based serving.
Perplexity AI Raises $500M Series E at $9B Valuation
Perplexity AI secures $500 million in Series E funding at a $9 billion valuation, with investors including SoftBank and Jeff Bezos. The company plans to expand its answer engine capabilities and enterprise search solutions.
AI Startups Raise Record $42B in Q1 2025 Funding Round
Venture capital investment in AI companies reaches historic levels in Q1 2025, with notable raises from inference infrastructure startups, AI coding assistants, and healthcare AI companies.