The CES 2026 Trends to Watch session showcased three megatrends—Intelligent Transformation, Longevity, and Engineering Tomorrow—expected to shape a future defined by interconnected, adaptive systems rather than discrete products.
Turing Award winner Yann LeCun launched AMI Labs with former Nabla CEO Alex LeBrun to develop world model AI systems. AMI Labs reportedly looks to raise €500 million at a €3 billion valuation to build alternatives to LLMs that understand real-world environments through video and sensor data.
Cursor announced it has acquired Graphite, a code review platform, for an undisclosed amount reportedly exceeding Graphite's $290M valuation. Graphite will continue to operate independently as both teams work on connecting their products and developing the best AI code reviewer in the market.
Ai2 released Molmo 2, an open-source multimodal model family with state-of-the-art video understanding capabilities including object tracking and temporal reasoning, trained on significantly less data than comparable models while outperforming proprietary systems like Gemini 3 on key benchmarks.
The Allen Institute for AI released OLMo 3.1 less than a month after OLMo 3's November launch, featuring two new 32B checkpoints with substantially improved reasoning and instruction-following capabilities achieved through extended reinforcement learning training.
Databricks raised $4 billion at a $134 billion valuation while reporting a $4.8 billion revenue run-rate and over 55% year-over-year growth. Databricks' reported revenue run-rate was fueled by its AI products and data warehousing businesses, each exceeding $1 billion in revenue run-rate.
Kling VIDEO 2.6 generates video with integrated voiceovers, sound effects, and ambient audio in a single pass, eliminating the need to create silent footage for later dubbing. VIDEO 2.6 generates videos up to 10 seconds long and supports Chinese and English voices.
Runway launched GWM-1, its first general world model family with three variants for explorable environments, conversational avatars, and robotic training. The company also updated its video generation model, Gen-4.5, with native audio generation and multi-shot editing capabilities.
Unconventional AI, a two-month-old startup founded by former Databricks AI chief Naveen Rao, raised $475 million at a $4.5 billion valuation to develop biology-inspired, energy-efficient computers for AI workloads.
AWS re:Invent 2025's agentic AI keynote introduced episodic memory for Bedrock AgentCore, Amazon Nova Act for managing agent fleets at scale, reinforcement fine-tuning capabilities, and checkpointless training on SageMaker HyperPod to make building trustworthy AI agents faster and easier.
AWS re:Invent 2024 showcased major AI advancements including the 3-nanometer Trainium 3 chip, Nova 2 foundation models, three new autonomous Frontier Agents for coding, DevOps, and security, and Database Savings Plans offering up to 35% cost reductions.
Warner Music Group settled its copyright lawsuit with AI music startup Suno and formed a licensing partnership that gives artists control over how their work is used in AI-generated music, while Suno acquired WMG's Songkick platform and will launch new licensed models in 2026.