Releases

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.