Releases

xAI released Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini in beta on X and announced enterprise API availability.

Amazon updated its image model with image conditioning, subject consistency and background-removal capabilities.

Google releases ShieldGemma, open safety classifiers built on Gemma 2 for filtering model inputs and outputs.

Midjourney released V6.1 with improved details, image quality, speed, text, and personalization.

Meta released SAM 2 for promptable object segmentation in both images and video.

DeepSeek upgraded the deepseek-coder API to the July Coder V2 checkpoint.

Mistral AI released Mistral Large 2, a 123B flagship model with a 128K context window and improved multilingual and coding performance.

Meta released a classifier for detecting prompt injection and jailbreak attempts.

Meta released a multilingual Llama 3.1-based safeguard model.

Meta released its 405B-parameter open-weights frontier model.

Meta released Llama 3.1 70B with a 128K context window and multilingual support.

Meta released Llama 3.1 8B with a 128K context window and multilingual support.

Harvey and Voyage developed a custom embeddings model for legal retrieval.

ElevenLabs released Turbo v2.5 with broader language support and low latency.

OpenAI released GPT-4o mini as a lower-cost small multimodal model.

Hugging Face released compact fully open language models at 135M, 360M, and 1.7B parameter scales.

Mistral AI released Codestral Mamba, an open code model using the Mamba 2 architecture.

Mistral AI released Mathstral 7B, an open model specialized for mathematical reasoning.

Skild AI emerged from stealth and described its unified robotics foundation model designed to generalize across tasks and robot hardware.

Baidu released a faster and more capable version of ERNIE 4.0.

DeepSeek updated its chat model with stronger code, math, reasoning and role-play performance.

Google releases Gemma 2, led by a 27B model with improved performance and efficiency.

EvolutionaryScale, founded by former Meta researchers, released ESM-3, a generative protein model originating from Meta's ESM program.

Anthropic released Claude 3.5 Sonnet with stronger reasoning, coding, writing, and vision performance.

Runway released Gen-3 Alpha with improved fidelity, motion, consistency, and controls.

DeepSeek released 16B and 236B mixture-of-experts coding models with 128K context.

DeepSeek upgraded its coding API to the Coder V2 generation.

Microsoft releases Florence-2, a unified prompt-based vision model for captioning, grounding, detection and segmentation.

ElevenLabs released Turbo v2 for lower-latency English speech synthesis.

DeepSeek published its first open theorem-proving model for Lean 4.

ElevenLabs released its generative sound-effects model.

Suno released v3.5 with longer and higher-quality music generation.

Mistral AI released Codestral, its first generative model specialized for code, under the Mistral AI Non-Production License.

Cohere Labs released the open Aya 23 35B multilingual model spanning 23 languages.

Cohere Labs released the open Aya 23 8B multilingual model spanning 23 languages.

IBM released Granite Code models from 3B to 34B parameters under a permissive open-source license.

Microsoft introduces Phi-3 Vision, a 4.2-billion-parameter multimodal model for image, chart, graph and table reasoning.

Microsoft expands Phi-3 with 7B Small and 14B Medium open models.

Microsoft releases Phi-3 Medium for higher-capability small-model workloads.

Microsoft introduces Phi Silica, an on-device small language model optimized for Windows neural processing units.

DeepSeek upgraded deepseek-chat with improved instruction following, JSON output and RAG performance.

Baidu introduced its Autonomous Driving Foundation Model for Level 4 driving systems.

Grok-1.5 rolled out to Grok users on X.

Google introduces Imagen 3 with improved photorealism, prompt understanding and text rendering.

Google DeepMind introduces Veo, a high-definition generative video model with cinematic controls.

Google releases PaliGemma, an open vision-language model for image-text tasks.

Google expands Gemini 1.5 Pro to a two-million-token context window in private preview.

Google introduces Gemini 1.5 Flash, a fast and efficient multimodal model with a one-million-token context window.

OpenAI released GPT-4o, an omni model designed for real-time reasoning across audio, vision, and text.

Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs introduce AlphaFold 3 for predicting structures and interactions across biomolecules.