Nano Banana 2
Nano Banana 2, also called Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, launched on February 26, 2026 with Pro level world knowledge, subject consistency for up to five characters, and resolutions from 512px to 4K at Flash speed.
The Deploy Log | Month by month
What shipped in AI in February 2026
53 rows dated February 2026 are in The Deploy Log: 12 leads, 14 in Models and APIs, 25 in Tools and products and 2 in Breakthroughs, from 9 publishers. They include Nano Banana 2 from Google DeepMind, Notion Custom Agents from Notion, Waymo four city launch from Waymo, Claude Code Security from Anthropic, Claude Sonnet 4.6 from Anthropic and 48 others. Every item sourced to the publisher's own page.
Leads
Notion Custom Agents
Notion 3.3 launched Custom Agents on February 24, 2026: autonomous agents with triggers and schedules that answer questions, route tasks, and write status reports across Notion, Slack, Mail, Calendar, and MCP integrations.
Waymo four city launch
Waymo opened fully autonomous ride-hailing to first public riders in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Orlando on February 24, 2026, bringing commercial metro areas to 10 and laying groundwork for service in 20+ cities.
Claude Code Security
Claude Code Security, a new capability built into Claude Code on the web, is now available in a limited research preview. It scans codebases for security vulnerabilities and suggests targeted software patches for human review.
Claude Sonnet 4.6
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is a full upgrade across coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work, and design. Pricing remains the same as Sonnet 4.5, starting at $3/$15 per million tokens, with a 1M token context window in beta.
Gemini 3.1 Pro
Gemini 3.1 Pro is rolling out in preview via the Gemini API in Google AI Studio, Gemini CLI, Google Antigravity, Android Studio, Vertex AI, Gemini Enterprise, the Gemini app, and NotebookLM. On ARC-AGI-2 it achieved a verified score of 77.1%, more than double the reasoning performance of 3 Pro.
6th-generation Waymo Driver
Waymo began fully autonomous operations with its 6th-generation Driver on the Ojai, built on nearly 200 million fully autonomous miles across 10+ major cities, with a 17 megapixel imager and fewer than half the cameras of the 5th-generation system.
GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark
OpenAI released a research preview of GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark, a smaller GPT-5.3-Codex model that delivers more than 1000 tokens per second on Cerebras hardware, with a 128k context window and text-only input.
Gemini 3 Deep Think
Google DeepMind released a major upgrade to Gemini 3 Deep Think, now available in the Gemini app for Google AI Ultra subscribers, with 48.4% on Humanity's Last Exam without tools, 84.6% on ARC-AGI-2, and an Elo of 3455 on Codeforces.
Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.6 is available today on claude.ai, the API, and all major cloud platforms at $5/$25 per million tokens. It adds a 1M token context window in beta, leads Terminal-Bench 2.0 and Humanity's Last Exam, and beats GPT-5.2 by around 144 Elo points on GDPval-AA.
GPT-5.3-Codex
GPT-5.3-Codex is available with paid ChatGPT plans everywhere Codex runs: the app, CLI, IDE extension, and web. It sets a new industry high on SWE-Bench Pro and Terminal-Bench, runs 25% faster, and matches GPT-5.2 on GDPval.
OpenAI Frontier
Frontier is available today to a limited set of customers, with broader availability coming over the next few months. HP, Intuit, Oracle, State Farm, Thermo Fisher, and Uber are among the first adopters.
Models and APIs
OpenAI-Amazon partnership
Amazon will invest $50 billion in OpenAI, starting with $15 billion, and AWS becomes the exclusive third-party cloud distributor for OpenAI Frontier.
Stateful Runtime Environment
OpenAI and Amazon deliver a Stateful Runtime Environment in Amazon Bedrock, powered by OpenAI models, for production agentic workflows.
GGML and llama.cpp join HF
GGML, creators of llama.cpp, are joining Hugging Face, with Georgi Gerganov and team dedicating 100% of their time maintaining llama.cpp with full autonomy and leadership on technical directions and the community.
Lyria 3 music generation
Lyria 3, Google DeepMind's latest generative music model, is rolling out in beta in the Gemini app, letting anyone make 30-second tracks from text or images with custom cover art generated by Nano Banana.
Unsloth and HF Jobs training
Unsloth and Hugging Face Jobs enable fast LLM fine-tuning of LiquidAI/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct through coding agents like Claude Code and Codex, with Unsloth providing approximately 2x faster training and about 60% less VRAM usage compared to standard methods.
CUDA kernel agent skill
Hugging Face released an agent skill that teaches Codex and Claude to write production CUDA kernels, producing an RMSNorm kernel for Qwen3-8B with an average 1.94x speedup on H100.
ChatGPT on GenAI.mil
OpenAI deployed a custom ChatGPT on GenAI.mil, the Department of War's secure enterprise AI platform used by 3 million civilian and military personnel, for unclassified work in authorized government cloud infrastructure.
GPT-5.2 physics result
GPT-5.2 Pro conjectured a formula for single-minus gluon tree amplitudes, and an internal scaffolded GPT-5.2 spent roughly 12 hours producing a formal proof, with the preprint available on arXiv.
OpenEnv Calendar Gym
Turing contributed a production-grade calendar management environment to OpenEnv, where agents achieved close to 90% success with explicit calendar identifiers but dropped to roughly 40% with natural language descriptions.
Transformers.js v4
Transformers.js v4 is now available on NPM with a C++ WebGPU runtime, a 10x build time drop from 2 seconds to 200 milliseconds, and a default export that is 53% smaller.
Lockdown Mode
OpenAI introduced Lockdown Mode for ChatGPT Enterprise, Edu, Healthcare, and Teachers, disabling live web access, image support, Deep Research, Agent Mode, and more to reduce prompt-injection risks.
Holo2-235B-A22B Preview
Holo2-235B-A22B Preview achieves 78.5% on Screenspot-Pro in agent mode within 3 steps and 79.0% on OSWorld G, and is available on Hugging Face.
Voxtral Transcribe 2
Voxtral Mini Transcribe V2 is available now via API at $0.003 per minute, and Voxtral Realtime is available via API at $0.006 per minute and as open weights on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0.
Xcode Claude Agent SDK
Xcode 26.3 introduces a native integration with the Claude Agent SDK, giving developers subagents, background tasks, plugins, and visual verification with Xcode Previews inside the IDE.
Tools and products
Dashboard navigation redesign
Vercel's new dashboard navigation became the default for all users on February 26, 2026, with a resizable sidebar, unified tabs, and a mobile floating bottom bar.
GPT 5.3 Codex
GPT 5.3 Codex is available on AI Gateway as a single model that is 25% faster and more token-efficient, built for long-running agentic work across debugging, deployment, and data analysis.
Vercel Queues
Vercel Queues, a durable event streaming system built with Fluid compute, entered public beta for all teams with at-least-once delivery and billing at $0.60 per 1M API operations.
Chat SDK
Vercel open sourced Chat SDK in public beta, a unified TypeScript library for building bots across Slack, Teams, Google Chat, Discord, GitHub, and Linear.
AI Gateway video generation
AI Gateway now supports video generation through AI SDK 6, with four initial video models and 17 variations covering text-to-video, image-to-video, first and last frame, and reference-to-video generation types.
Billing usage cost data API
Vercel now supports programmatic access to billing usage and cost data through the API and CLI, with the new /billing/charges endpoint returning data in the FOCUS v1.3 open-standard format.
Gradio gr.HTML one-shot apps
Gradio 6 shipped gr.HTML with custom templates, scoped CSS, and JavaScript interactivity, letting Claude or any other frontier LLM generate frontend, backend, and state management in a single Python file with no build step.
Recraft V4 on AI Gateway
Recraft V4 is now available on AI Gateway, a text-to-image model built for professional design and marketing use cases with improvements in photorealism, realistic skin, natural textures, and fewer synthetic artifacts.
Runtime Logs search redesign
The Runtime Logs search bar in the project dashboard has been redesigned with structured filters that parse level:error or status:500 into visual pills, smarter suggestions based on actual log data, and automatic conversion of pasted Vercel Request IDs into filters.
Skills.sh security audits
Skills on skills.sh now have automated security audits from partners Gen, Socket, and Snyk, allowing rapid scaling to audit over 60,000 skills and counting.
Streamdown 2.3
Streamdown 2.3 ships with a fully cleared bug backlog, applying a unified nested-card design to tables, code blocks, and Mermaid diagrams, with sticky action buttons and plain text code blocks that render immediately.
Streaming Runtime Logs exports
Runtime Logs exports now stream directly to the browser, with all plans able to export up to 10,000 requests per export and Observability Plus subscribers able to export up to 100,000 requests.
Gemini 3.1 Pro on AI Gateway
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is now available on AI Gateway, bringing quality improvements across software engineering and agentic workflows with more efficient thinking.
Claude Opus 4.6 in Notion
Notion added Claude Opus 4.6, the strongest model Anthropic has shipped, which breaks complicated requests into concrete steps and produces polished work.
GLM-5 on AI Gateway
GLM-5 from Z.AI is now available on AI Gateway with no other provider accounts required, adding multiple thinking modes and improved long-range planning over GLM-4.7.
MiniMax M2.5 on AI Gateway
MiniMax M2.5 is now available on AI Gateway, planning before it builds and handling full-stack projects across Web, Android, iOS, Windows, and Mac.
Vercel Flags
Vercel Flags entered public beta with targeting rules, user segments, and environment controls in the Vercel Dashboard, priced at $30 per 1 million flag requests.
stale-if-error support
Vercel CDN now supports the stale-if-error Cache-Control directive, serving previously cached responses during 500 errors, network failures, or DNS errors.
New v0
The new v0 can import any GitHub repo, connect to Snowflake and AWS databases, and let anyone on a team open PRs against main and deploy on merge.
Python 3.13 and 3.14
Builds and Functions now support Python 3.13 and Python 3.14 alongside the previously supported Python 3.12, with the default switching to Python 3.14 in the coming months.
SyGra Studio
SyGra 2.0.0 introduces Studio, an interactive environment that turns synthetic data generation into a visual canvas with guided model forms, data previews, and live execution streaming.
TRAE integration
ByteDance's coding agent TRAE now integrates both AI Gateway and direct Vercel deployments, bringing unified AI access and instant production shipping to over 1.6 million monthly active developers.
Turbo build machines default
Turbo build machines are now the default for all new Pro projects and projects upgrading from Hobby to the Pro plan, delivering 30vCPUs and 60GB of memory.
Notion Agent Asana search
Your Notion Agent can now find Asana projects and tasks in seconds, respecting existing Asana permissions.
Codex app
The Codex app for macOS manages multiple agents in parallel, includes skills and Automations, and doubles rate limits on paid plans; over a million developers used Codex in the past month.
Breakthroughs
DialogLab
Google Research introduced DialogLab, an open-source prototyping framework for authoring, simulating, and testing dynamic human-AI group conversations, evaluated with 14 participants who rated human control mode significantly more engaging.
Time-varying scheduling
Google Research introduced the first constant-factor approximation algorithms for non-preemptive throughput maximization under time-varying capacity, with a 1/2-approximation offline and a 1/11 competitive ratio online with common deadlines.
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