Timeline
Mandated that 65-80% of developer code must be AI-generated by mid-2026.
Agreed to submit early frontier AI models for pre-release testing by U.S. government
Meta building agentic AI assistant for 3B+ users powered by Muse Spark, no timeline disclosed
Deployed unified AI agents for hyperscale data center performance optimization
Meta released Tuna-2, an encoder-free multimodal model that processes raw pixels directly
Proposed $2B acquisition of Manus blocked by China
Meta publishes paper on summary-based history reuse for coding agents, showing 10-20% improvement on complex tasks
xAI's Colossus 2 campus gas turbines could emit over 6.4 million tons of CO2 per year
xAI's Colossus 1 campus gas turbines could emit over 6.4 million tons of CO2 per year
Reported Grok 4.2 model uses 0.5 trillion parameters, and Colossus 2 project is training models up to 10 trillion parameters.
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Evidence (6 articles)
Anthropic Leadership Shakeup Sparks AI Alliance Realignment
Feb 27, 2026The AI Frontier Narrows: xAI and Meta Lag as Three-Way Race Intensifies
Mar 13, 2026Gas-Fueled AI Data Centers Could Emit More Than Entire Nations
Apr 23, 2026Ethan Mollick: Recursive AI Self-Improvement Likely Limited to Google, OpenAI, Anthropic
Mar 15, 2026Trump's AI Energy Summit: Tech Giants Pledge to Self-Generate Power Amid Grid Concerns
Feb 25, 2026The GPQA Diamond Benchmark Reveals Shifting Dynamics in the AI Race
Mar 14, 2026