Year-End Recap
For this last post of the year, a look back at the notable announcements from late December. On the agenda: xAI deploys Grok for businesses, Manus joins Meta AI, WAN 2.6 improves character consistency in video, and Runway partners with Adobe.
Happy New Year 2026 to everyone! 🎉
xAI: Grok Business and Enterprise
December 30, 2025 — xAI launches its professional offerings to deploy Grok in the enterprise.
The best assistant in the world is now Enterprise ready.
— xAI
Grok Business
| Aspect | Details |
|---|---|
| Price | $30/user/month |
| Target | SMBs, self-service |
| Data | No training on your data |
| Apps | Google Drive (Slack, Notion coming soon) |
Grok Enterprise
Includes everything in Grok Business plus:
- Custom SSO — Personalized Single Sign-On
- Directory Sync — SCIM for user synchronization
- Advanced Audit — Enhanced security controls
Enterprise Vault
For the most security-demanding clients:
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Dedicated data plane | Isolated infrastructure |
| CMEK | Customer Managed Encryption Keys |
| Application-level encryption | Encryption at the application level |
xAI: Collections API for RAG
December 22, 2025 — xAI launches a state-of-the-art RAG API integrated with Grok.
Features
- Upload PDFs, Excel, entire codebases
- Indexing with OCR and layout-aware parsing
- Search semantic, keyword, or hybrid (reranker + reciprocal rank fusion)
Pricing
| Service | Price |
|---|---|
| Indexing | Free for the 1st week |
| Retrieval | $2.50 / 1,000 searches |
Benchmarks
| Task | Grok 4.1 Fast | Gemini Pro 3 | GPT 5.1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finance | 93.0 | 85.9 | 84.7 |
| Legal | 73.9 | 74.5 | 71.2 |
| Coding | 86 | 85 | 81 |
Manus joins Meta AI
December 29, 2025 — The Manus team, known for its autonomous AI agents, joins Meta AI.
Manus is entering the next chapter: we’re joining forces with Meta to take general agents to the next level.
Key Figures
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Tokens processed | 147 trillion |
| Virtual computers | 80 million |
Continuity
- Existing Manus services remain operational
- Headquarters remain in Singapore
- The team joins the Meta AI division
This acquisition strengthens Meta’s capabilities in the field of autonomous AI agents, a rapidly expanding sector.
Runway and Adobe: Strategic Partnership
December 30, 2025 — Runway and Adobe announce a multi-year partnership.
We have entered into a multi-year strategic partnership with @Adobe to bring @runwayml models and technology to Adobe’s tools. We will also be collaborating to develop highly specialized AI capabilities for professional workflows that will be exclusively available in Adobe applications.
Key Points
| Aspect | Details |
|---|---|
| Duration | Multi-year |
| Integration | Runway Gen-4.5 in Adobe Firefly |
| Exclusivity | Specialized features only in Adobe |
This move combines Runway’s expertise in AI video generation with Adobe’s dominant creative suite.
WAN 2.6: Character Consistency
December 16, 2025 — Alibaba updates WAN with improved consistency features.
New Features
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Starring Roles | Character consistency between clips |
| Multi-shot storytelling | Narrative storyboarding |
| Voice consistency | Voice consistency across multiple generations |
These improvements respond to strong demand from creators: maintaining visual and audio identity across multi-clip projects.
Qwen Code v0.6.0
December 30, 2025 — Alibaba updates its VS Code extension for Qwen.
🚀 Qwen Code v0.6.0 now is available!
What’s New
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Experimental Skills | Skills system to extend capabilities |
| /compress | Context compression |
| /summary | Automatic summary |
| Multi-Provider | Gemini and Anthropic support |
These additions bring Qwen Code closer to the features of Claude Code and GitHub Copilot.
OpenAI: ChatGPT Personalization
December 18-19, 2025 — OpenAI enriches personalization options.
Pinned Chats (Dec 18)
📌 PINNED CHATS ARE HERE
Rolling out now to iOS, Android, and web. Tap the ”…” next to your chat on web or long press on mobile to pin.
Adjust Characteristics (Dec 19)
You can now adjust specific characteristics in ChatGPT, like warmth, enthusiasm, and emoji use. Now available in your “Personalization” settings.
Recap
| Date | Company | Novelty |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 30 | xAI | Grok Business & Enterprise |
| Dec 30 | Runway/Adobe | Multi-year partnership |
| Dec 30 | Qwen | Qwen Code v0.6.0 |
| Dec 29 | Manus/Meta | Acquisition by Meta AI |
| Dec 22 | xAI | Collections API (RAG) |
| Dec 19 | OpenAI | Adjust characteristics |
| Dec 18 | OpenAI | Pinned chats |
| Dec 16 | Alibaba | WAN 2.6 |