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AI Intelligence

Feb 2026

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19 Feb 2026

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Google DeepMind

Google Launches Gemini 3.1 Pro — World's Largest 2M-Token Context Window

Google released Gemini 3.1 Pro on February 19, 2026, setting a new frontier benchmark with a 2-million-token context window — the largest of any commercially available model. The model topped GPQA Diamond at 94.3% and scored 77.1% on ARC-AGI-2, leading all February 2026 evaluations. Priced at $2.00/$12.00 per million tokens (under 200K context) and paid-only since April 2026, Gemini 3.1 Pro is available via Google AI Studio, Vertex AI, and the Gemini API.

Why it mattersA 2M-token context eliminates chunking strategies for most enterprise document workloads — entire codebases, legal libraries, or research corpuses can now be reasoned over in a single pass.

Try itLoad a 500-page technical specification or codebase into Gemini AI Studio and ask cross-document questions that would have required RAG — compare accuracy to your current retrieval pipeline.

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11 Feb 2026

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TOTVS🇧🇷

TOTVS Launches 'Lynn' — Brazil's First B2B AI Foundation System, R$600M Investment Over Four Years

Brazilian ERP giant TOTVS launched Lynn at its annual technology event, describing it as the first B2B-focused AI foundation system in the Brazilian market. Lynn operates across three layers — an agent builder, an enterprise orchestration layer, and a governance layer — and will be monetised primarily through a Task-as-a-Service (TaaS) billing model targeting Brazilian SMBs. TOTVS plans to invest R$600 million in software development CAPEX over four years, with Lynn as the central platform across all its product lines.

Why it mattersTOTVS serves over 45,000 Brazilian SMBs across ERP, HR, and CRM — embedding an AI foundation layer across all its products simultaneously reaches more Brazilian businesses than any hyperscaler currently has in the country.

Try itIf you run a TOTVS ERP instance, request access to the Lynn agent builder beta — Task-as-a-Service billing means you can test AI automation for a specific workflow without committing to a full platform migration.

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11 Feb 2026

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Mistral AI🇸🇪

Mistral AI Commits €1.2B to AI Data Centers and Infrastructure in Sweden

Mistral AI announced a €1.2 billion ($1.43 billion) investment in AI infrastructure in Sweden, including data centers, advanced compute capacity, and localised AI capabilities, making Sweden one of Europe's largest recipients of dedicated AI infrastructure investment. The commitment aligns with Sweden's February 2026 national AI strategy and positions the country as a northern European hub for sovereign AI compute. Mistral's European identity makes the deal politically significant as Sweden builds alternatives to US-hosted AI infrastructure.

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5 Feb 2026

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Brazilian Government🇧🇷

Brazil's Public Health System SUS to Get AI-Powered Smart Hospital Network — R$1.7B Investment

Brazil's Ministry of Health announced a R$1.7 billion investment starting in 2026 to build a national network of smart hospitals within the SUS public health system, integrating AI diagnostics, 5G connectivity, and robotic surgeries. The program — the largest AI investment in Latin American public healthcare history — initially targets smart ICUs with predictive monitoring and AI-assisted imaging in remote and underserved communities. The initiative builds on Brazil's October 2025 entry into the HealthAI Global Regulatory Network and positions SUS as a global testbed for equitable AI in healthcare.

Why it mattersA R$1.7B public health AI investment creates a large procurement market for clinical NLP, medical imaging, and patient data tools compliant with Brazil's LGPD framework.

Try itIf you build health AI products, review the SUS Smart Hospitals RFP criteria when published — the contract requirements will define the compliance and integration standards for Brazilian public health AI for years.

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Feb 2026

Major
Google

Gemini 3.1 Pro — Leads Every Published Reasoning Benchmark

Google released Gemini 3.1 Pro in February 2026, immediately reaching the top of all major published benchmarks including GPQA Diamond at 94.3% and ARC-AGI-2 at 77.1%. The model matched GPT-5.5's 1-million-token context window while offering more competitive API pricing, making it the preferred choice for cost-sensitive high-throughput workloads. Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite launched simultaneously as Google's most cost-efficient model for latency-critical production deployments.

Why it mattersLeading every published reasoning benchmark means Gemini 3.1 Pro sets the current quality ceiling for coding, math, and logic tasks, making it the default evaluation baseline for new model releases.

Try itRun Gemini 3.1 Pro on your internal evaluation suite today and record the scores as a baseline to objectively compare any model you evaluate going forward.

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Feb 2026

Major
Swedish Government🇸🇪

Sweden Adopts First Comprehensive National AI Strategy — SEK 479M Budget, Top-10 Global Target by 2030

The Swedish government adopted its first comprehensive national AI strategy, targeting a top-10 global ranking in AI and allocating SEK 479 million in 2026 (approximately SEK 500 million/year through 2030) for AI and data initiatives. The strategy launches Team Sweden AI for international positioning, establishes an AI secretariat in the Finance Ministry, and appoints an AI coordinator in the Prime Minister's Office. Sweden also committed SEK 600 million in European funding contributions for AI, cybersecurity, and digitalization cooperation.

Why it mattersA funded national AI strategy with a dedicated PM office coordinator signals Sweden is treating AI as critical national infrastructure — companies can expect both increased public procurement and new regulatory frameworks aligned with the 2030 target.

Try itRead the full strategy at government.se and identify which of the six strategic pillars (compute, data, skills, research, deployment, international) most directly affects your sector — then check if Vinnova has open calls aligned with that pillar.

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