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AI Intelligence Weekly | 2026-05-04

AI Intelligence Weekly: 2026-05-04

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AI Intelligence Weekly | 2026-05-04

Week ending 2026-05-03

This historical AI Intelligence brief records three distinct developments published during the reporting window. Each source is linked below and the selection excludes canonical URLs and normalized topics already used by Cyber Intel or AI Intelligence.

### 1. DeepSeek V4 Preview Release

DeepSeek released a preview of its V4 model, featuring the V4-Pro variant with 1.6 trillion total parameters and a standardized 1-million-token context window. The release includes open-weight models under the MIT license and adds full support for Huawei AI hardware.

[Read the DeepSeek source](https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news260424/)

### 2. The next phase of the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership

Microsoft and OpenAI amended their partnership agreement to end Microsoft's revenue share payments and remove exclusivity for OpenAI model deployments. The update allows OpenAI to serve its products across any cloud provider while Microsoft retains a non-exclusive license to OpenAI IP through 2032.

[Read the Microsoft source](https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/04/27/the-next-phase-of-the-microsoft-openai-partnership/)

### 3. Introducing Laguna XS.2 and Laguna M.1

AI startup Poolside released Laguna XS.2, a 33-billion parameter open-weight Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model designed for agentic coding. The model uses 3 billion active parameters per token and is released under the Apache 2.0 license for local and cloud deployment.

[Read the Poolside source](https://poolside.ai/blog/introducing-laguna-xs2-m1)

Sources

1. [DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Preview Release](https://api-docs.deepseek.com/news/news260424/), published April 24, 2026.
2. [Microsoft: The next phase of the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership](https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/04/27/the-next-phase-of-the-microsoft-openai-partnership/), published April 27, 2026.
3. [Poolside: Introducing Laguna XS.2 and Laguna M.1](https://poolside.ai/blog/introducing-laguna-xs2-m1), published April 28, 2026.