What shipped in AI, week of February 23, 2026

9 deployments dated February 23 to March 1, 2026 are in The Deploy Log: 3 leads, 2 in Models and APIs and 4 in Tools and products, from 5 publishers. They include Nano Banana 2 from Google DeepMind, Notion Custom Agents from Notion, Waymo four city launch from Waymo, OpenAI-Amazon partnership from OpenAI, Stateful Runtime Environment from OpenAI and 4 others. Every item sourced to the publisher's own page.

Leads

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.

Google DeepMind | In Edition 23, Saturday 28 Feb 2026

SOURCE Google DeepMind, Nano Banana 2: Combining Pro capabilities with lightning-fast speed

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.

Notion | In Edition 23, Saturday 28 Feb 2026

SOURCE Notion, Notion 3.3: Custom Agents

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.

Waymo | In Edition 23, Saturday 28 Feb 2026

SOURCE Waymo, Ready to Ride: Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and Orlando

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.

OpenAI | Models and APIs | Published Friday 27 Feb 2026

SOURCE OpenAI, OpenAI and Amazon announce strategic partnership

Stateful Runtime Environment

OpenAI and Amazon deliver a Stateful Runtime Environment in Amazon Bedrock, powered by OpenAI models, for production agentic workflows.

OpenAI | Models and APIs | Published Friday 27 Feb 2026

SOURCE OpenAI, Introducing the Stateful Runtime Environment for Agents in Amazon Bedrock

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.

Vercel | Tools and products | In Edition 23, Saturday 28 Feb 2026

SOURCE Vercel, Dashboard navigation redesign rollout

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 | Tools and products | In Edition 23, Saturday 28 Feb 2026

SOURCE Vercel, GPT 5.3 Codex is now on AI Gateway

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.

Vercel | Tools and products | In Edition 23, Saturday 28 Feb 2026

SOURCE Vercel, Vercel Queues now in public beta

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.

Vercel | Tools and products | Published Monday 23 Feb 2026

SOURCE Vercel, Chat SDK

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