January 2, 2026 - Google DeepMind releases SIMA-Real, the first general AI agent with real-time physical world interaction capability. Tested on Boston Dynamics Atlas robot completing door-opening, object retrieval, and obstacle avoidance - all zero-shot.
January 1, 2026—Meta releases Llama4-Swarm, the first open-source model supporting real-time consensus decision-making across thousands of AI agents. A major leap for open-source AI collaboration.