Releases

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.

Black Forest Labs released FLUX1.1 [pro] with improved image quality, prompt adherence, and generation speed.

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.

Chai Discovery released Chai-1 model weights and inference code under Apache 2.0, including commercial use.

Chai Discovery released a multimodal foundation model for unified molecular structure prediction across proteins, small molecules, DNA, RNA, and covalent modifications.

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.

Black Forest Labs released the fast FLUX.1 [schnell] model under Apache 2.0.

Black Forest Labs released FLUX.1 [dev] weights for non-commercial use.

Black Forest Labs released its hosted flagship 12B FLUX.1 text-to-image model.

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.