What shipped in AI, week of May 18, 2026

7 deployments dated May 18 to 24, 2026 are in The Deploy Log: 2 leads, 4 in Models and APIs and 1 in Tools and products, from 6 publishers. They include KPMG Claude alliance from Anthropic, Stable Audio 3.0 from Stability AI, Project Genie Street View from Google DeepMind, OlmoEarth v1.1 from Hugging Face, Codex on Dell from OpenAI and 2 others. Every item sourced to the publisher's own page.

Leads

KPMG Claude alliance

KPMG embeds Claude inside Digital Gateway, its client work platform, and gives all 276,000+ employees access to Claude, with Claude Cowork and Managed Agents for building AI capabilities in minutes.

Anthropic | In Edition 35, Saturday 23 May 2026

SOURCE Anthropic, KPMG integrates Claude across its core business and workforce of more than 276,000 in strategic alliance

Stable Audio 3.0

Stable Audio 3.0 releases four models: Small SFX for on-device sound effects, Small for full music composition on-device, Medium for up to 6:20 tracks, and Large via API for low-latency high-volume generation.

Stability AI | In Edition 35, Saturday 23 May 2026

SOURCE Stability AI, Meet Stable Audio 3.0, the model family built for artistic experimentation with open-weight models

Models and APIs

Project Genie Street View

Project Genie now grounds generated worlds in Google Street View imagery for places in the U.S., and access is rolling out to all eligible Google AI Ultra $200 subscribers globally.

Google DeepMind | Models and APIs | In Edition 35, Saturday 23 May 2026

SOURCE Google DeepMind, Simulate real-world places with Project Genie and Street View

OlmoEarth v1.1

OlmoEarth v1.1 is a new family of Earth observation models that cuts compute costs by up to 3x while maintaining OlmoEarth v1's performance on research benchmarks.

Hugging Face | Models and APIs | Published Tuesday 19 May 2026

SOURCE Hugging Face, OlmoEarth v1.1: A more efficient family of Earth observation models

Codex on Dell

OpenAI and Dell Technologies partner to bring Codex to hybrid and on-premises environments, with more than 4 million developers now using Codex every week.

OpenAI | Models and APIs | Published Monday 18 May 2026

SOURCE OpenAI, OpenAI and Dell Technologies partner to bring Codex to hybrid and on-premises enterprise environments

PaddleOCR 3.5

PaddleOCR 3.5 brings OCR and document parsing tasks closer to the Hugging Face ecosystem, with supported models able to run with Transformers as an inference backend.

Hugging Face | Models and APIs | Published Monday 18 May 2026

SOURCE Hugging Face, PaddleOCR 3.5: Running OCR and Document Parsing Tasks with a Transformers Backend

Tools and products

AI Gateway WordPress plugin

The Vercel AI Gateway plugin gives any WordPress site access to hundreds of models from 40+ providers through a single API key, requiring WordPress 7.0.

Vercel | Tools and products | In Edition 35, Saturday 23 May 2026

SOURCE Vercel, Vercel AI Gateway plugin for WordPress

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