Releases

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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