Releases

Anthropic released Claude 2 with improved reasoning, coding, safety, and long-context capabilities.

Midjourney released V5.2 with improved aesthetics, shorter prompts, and Zoom Out.

MosaicML released the MPT-30B base, instruct and chat models with commercial-use terms.

Meta released MMS speech-recognition and synthesis models covering more than 1,100 languages.

Google launches PaLM 2, improving multilingual, reasoning and coding capabilities across Google products and Cloud.

Meta released ImageBind, a joint embedding model spanning images, text, audio, depth, thermal and IMU data.

MosaicML released MPT-7B, Base, Instruct, Chat and StoryWriter variants under commercially usable licenses.

BigCode released StarCoder, a 15.5B-parameter code model trained on permissively licensed code from The Stack.

Midjourney released V5.1 with stronger default aesthetics and coherence.

Baidu introduced ERNIE 3.5 as the new foundation model powering ERNIE Bot.

ElevenLabs released its first multilingual speech-synthesis model.

Meta released DINOv2, a self-supervised vision foundation model and pretrained visual features.

Amazon introduced its first text embedding foundation model through the Bedrock preview.

AWS introduced Amazon Titan, its family of text generation and embedding foundation models available through Bedrock.

Databricks released Dolly 2.0 with commercial-use weights and the human-generated databricks-dolly-15k instruction dataset.

Meta released SAM, its promptable image-segmentation model, together with model weights and the SA-1B dataset.

Midjourney and Spellbrush released Niji V5 for anime and illustrative generation.

Databricks released Dolly, a six-billion-parameter instruction-following model that could be trained inexpensively on one machine.

Midjourney released V5 with improved photorealism and prompt understanding.

Anthropic introduced Claude and Claude Instant more broadly after a closed alpha with partners.

OpenAI released GPT-4, a multimodal large model accepting image and text inputs and producing text outputs.

MosaicML released MosaicBERT, an optimized BERT architecture designed to pretrain high-quality models at much lower cost.

Cohere established Command as its principal family of enterprise generative language models.

Cohere released Command Light as a lower-latency generation option for enterprise text workloads.

Cohere introduced the Command generation family for enterprise summarization, conversation and text workflows.

Meta released the first LLaMA model family for approved research use, spanning 7B to 65B parameters.

The release of Eleven v1 established ElevenLabs' proprietary audio-model family.

ElevenLabs launched its first text-to-speech model and opened the platform in beta.

OpenAI released text-embedding-ada-002, replacing multiple earlier embedding models with a more capable and lower-cost model.

Meta withdrew the public Galactica demo after criticism over unreliable and misleading generated scientific content.

Meta AI released a research demo of Galactica, a large language model trained on scientific knowledge.

BigScience released BLOOMZ and mT0, instruction-finetuned multilingual models derived from BLOOM and the xP3 task collection.

Midjourney released V4 with major improvements in realism, artistic coherence, and detail.

Cohere released its second-generation multilingual embedding model for semantic search across more than 100 languages.

Cohere established its Rerank family of cross-encoder relevance models for search pipelines.

Meta released EnCodec, a neural audio codec for high-fidelity compression.

OpenAI released Whisper, a multilingual speech-recognition model, together with model weights and inference code.

Midjourney released V3 as the default image model.

The BigScience workshop released BLOOM, a 176-billion-parameter multilingual language model trained on the Jean Zay supercomputer.

Meta released NLLB-200, a machine-translation model covering 200 languages.

Meta released the Open Pretrained Transformer family and provided OPT-175B access to researchers.

OpenAI introduced DALL-E 2 with higher-resolution image generation and editing capabilities.

Midjourney released its second-generation image model.

Midjourney released its first public text-to-image model.

OpenAI introduced instruction-following models trained with human feedback.

Cohere introduced its Embed model family for semantic representation and retrieval.

Microsoft releases DeBERTa V3 with replaced-token detection and gradient-disentangled embedding sharing.

OpenAI introduced Codex, a descendant of GPT-3 that translates natural language into code.

DeepMind publishes AlphaFold 2's methodology and releases source code, expanding access to high-accuracy protein prediction.

Google introduces LaMDA as a conversational language model designed for open-ended dialogue.