Releases

The final V2.5 update improved mathematics, coding, writing, file handling and web-page summarization.

xAI launched the autoregressive Aurora image-generation model on X, adding photorealistic generation and multimodal image input.

Meta released a multilingual 70B instruction model with performance comparable to larger Llama 3.1 models.

Google releases PaliGemma 2, expanding the open vision-language family with new model sizes and resolutions.

OpenAI released the full o1 reasoning model in ChatGPT and announced related API improvements.

AWS released its first Nova video-generation model.

AWS released its Nova image-generation and editing model.

AWS released a capable multimodal Nova model for enterprise and agentic workloads.

AWS released a low-cost multimodal Nova model through Amazon Bedrock.

AWS released the text-only low-latency Nova model through Amazon Bedrock.

Cohere introduced Rerank 3.5 with stronger reasoning and multilingual retrieval over complex enterprise data.

Amazon released a faster and more memory-efficient zero-shot forecasting model family.

Hugging Face released SmolVLM, a compact 2B vision-language model designed to run with very low memory.

Runway introduced Frames, an image model emphasizing stylistic control.

Suno released v4 with better audio, lyrics, and song structures.

Mistral AI released Pixtral Large, a 124B multimodal model for image and document understanding.

DeepSeek released JanusFlow using rectified flow for image generation.

Scale released Defense Llama, a Llama 3-based model fine-tuned for controlled U.S. national-security use cases inside Scale Donovan.

Anthropic released Claude 3.5 Haiku as a faster model with substantially improved intelligence and coding performance.

Hugging Face released the second generation of its 135M, 360M, and 1.7B compact language models with stronger instruction following.

Physical Intelligence introduced π0, a general-purpose vision-language-action flow model trained on diverse robot data.

Cohere Labs released Aya Expanse 32B as the larger Aya Expanse multilingual model.

Cohere Labs released Aya Expanse 8B with improved multilingual generation across 23 languages.

Runway released Act-One for expressive performance capture and character animation.

Anthropic released an upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet with major coding and tool-use improvements.

IBM released its Granite 3.0 8B model with enterprise and agentic capabilities under Apache 2.0.

IBM released its compact Granite 3.0 2B enterprise language model under Apache 2.0.

DeepSeek released Janus 1.3B for multimodal understanding and image generation.

Mistral AI launched the Ministral 3B and 8B models for edge, on-device and local use.

Meta published improved SAM 2.1 checkpoints and developer tooling.

Meta released a 90B multimodal model for image understanding.

Meta released an 11B multimodal model for image understanding.

Meta released a compact 1B text model for on-device use.

Meta released a compact 3B text model for on-device use.

Mistral AI released Pixtral 12B, its first open-weight multimodal model.

OpenAI released its first o-series reasoning models, o1-preview and o1-mini.

DeepSeek merged its general and coding capabilities into V2.5 and published weights.

The August Command R+ release delivered roughly 50% higher throughput and 25% lower latency with the same hardware footprint.

Cohere updated Command R with improved tool decisions, instruction following, structured-data analysis and robustness.

Hugging Face released IDEFICS3, a more efficient multimodal architecture that became the basis for the SmolVLM family.

Microsoft releases Phi-3.5 Vision for multimodal image and text understanding.

Microsoft releases Phi-3.5 MoE, a mixture-of-experts small language model.

Microsoft releases Phi-3.5 Mini with multilingual support and a long context window.

Runway released a faster and lower-cost Gen-3 Alpha Turbo variant.

DeepSeek released an improved formal theorem prover using reinforcement learning and search.

Google begins broad availability of Imagen 3 through ImageFX and later expands access through Gemini and Vertex AI.

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.