China Releases Revised 'Generative AI Services Management Measures'
The Cyberspace Administration of China issues revised generative-AI rules, adding requirements for agent services and multimodal content.
Moonshot AI Releases Kimi K2: A Trillion-Parameter MoE Model, Open-Sourced
Moonshot AI unveils Kimi K2 with 1 trillion total parameters — the largest open model at launch — excelling at agentic and coding tasks.
GitHub Copilot Gets a Coding Agent: Autonomous Background Tasks and Pull Requests
At Microsoft Build 2025, GitHub introduced the Copilot coding agent — it takes tasks, runs in the background on GitHub Actions and opens PRs.
A Researcher for Everyone: How Deep Research Became 2025's Standard AI Feature
From Gemini (Dec 2024) to OpenAI (Feb 2025) to the whole industry, autonomous research agents went from novelty to table stakes within a year.
The Starting Gun of the Agent Era: OpenAI Fires Off Operator and Deep Research
In January-February 2025, OpenAI launched Operator, a browser-driving agent, and Deep Research, an autonomous research agent — agents became products.
Gemini 2.0 Launches: Google Declares the Agentic Era, Debuts Project Mariner
Google released Gemini 2.0 on December 11, 2024 — built for agents — and demoed Project Mariner, an agent that drives your browser.