Releases

Microsoft releases Phi-4 Mini, a compact long-context language model with multilingual and function-calling capabilities.

Anthropic released Claude 3.7 Sonnet, its first hybrid reasoning model with standard and extended-thinking modes.

Hugging Face released SmolVLM2 at 256M, 500M, and 2.2B parameters with support for video understanding as well as images and text.

xAI unveiled Grok 3 and Grok 3 mini with reasoning modes, DeepSearch and Think capabilities trained on Colossus.

Perplexity released R1 1776, an open-weight post-trained version of DeepSeek-R1 intended to reduce censorship while retaining reasoning capability.

Mistral AI released Mistral Saba, a 24B regional language model optimized for Arabic and languages of the Middle East and South Asia.

Perplexity released a faster in-house Sonar model built on Llama 3.3 70B and served through Cerebras for Pro search.

Google releases Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite in public preview as its lowest-cost Gemini 2.0 model.

Google releases an experimental Gemini 2.0 Pro for coding and complex prompts with a two-million-token context window.

Gemini 2.0 Flash becomes generally available through the Gemini API, Google AI Studio and Vertex AI.

Moonshot released Moonlight, a 16B MoE model used to evaluate Muon optimization at scale.

OpenAI released o3-mini, a cost-efficient reasoning model optimized for science, mathematics, and coding.

Mistral AI released Mistral Small 3, a 24B latency-optimized open-weight model.

Perplexity introduced Sonar Reasoning and Sonar Reasoning Pro for search-grounded analytical queries.

DeepSeek released scaled 1B and 7B Janus-Pro checkpoints with improved understanding and image generation.

Hugging Face released a 500M vision-language model for low-memory multimodal inference.

Hugging Face released a 256M vision-language model small enough for highly constrained devices while supporting image-and-text tasks.

Moonshot released Kimi k1.5, a multimodal reasoning model trained with reinforcement learning.

Moonshot introduced its open k-series reasoning work through the Kimi k1.5 release.

DeepSeek released the Llama 70B-based distilled R1 reasoning checkpoint.

DeepSeek released the Llama 8B-based distilled R1 reasoning checkpoint.

DeepSeek released the Qwen 14B-based distilled R1 reasoning checkpoint.

DeepSeek released the Qwen 1.5B-based distilled R1 reasoning checkpoint.

DeepSeek released the Qwen 7B-based distilled R1 reasoning checkpoint.

DeepSeek released the Qwen 32B-based distilled R1 reasoning checkpoint.

DeepSeek published R1 under the MIT License and made it available on web and API.

DeepSeek published its pure reinforcement-learning reasoning checkpoint.

Mistral AI released an updated Codestral model with improved code generation and a 256K context window.

NVIDIA launched Cosmos with open world foundation models, tokenizers, guardrails and data-processing tools for physical AI.

DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V3 weights and upgraded the deepseek-chat API.

Answer.AI and Hugging Face released ModernBERT, a modernized encoder-only model family for retrieval and classification workloads.

IBM released open embedding models for enterprise retrieval and semantic search.

IBM expanded Granite with improved language, embedding and safety models.

Google DeepMind introduces Veo 2 with improved realism, physics and camera controls for video generation.

DeepSeek published its second-generation mixture-of-experts vision-language models.

Meta released a behavioral foundation model for controlling virtual humanoid agents.

Microsoft releases Phi-4, a 14-billion-parameter small language model specializing in complex reasoning.

Google releases experimental Gemini 2.0 Flash with native tool use, multimodal output and real-time streaming capabilities.

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.