Releases

DeepSeek's assistant reached number one among free iPhone applications in the United States as adoption surged.

DeepSeek temporarily limited new registrations following a large-scale malicious cyberattack.

Microsoft forms CoreAI – Platform and Tools under Jay Parikh, combining developer, AI platform, supercomputing and agent-runtime teams.

Microsoft says it is on track to invest approximately $80 billion during fiscal 2025 in AI-enabled datacenters for training models and deploying AI applications.

By year-end 2024, CoreWeave operated more than 360 megawatts of active power and held about 1.3 gigawatts of contracted capacity.

Perplexity announced an experiment with sponsored follow-up questions while stating that advertising would not alter answer content.

Anthropic updated its Responsible Scaling Policy with revised capability thresholds, safety-case processes, and governance measures.

xAI brought its Memphis Colossus training cluster online with 100,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs after a 122-day build.

Google DeepMind demonstrates Project Astra, a real-time multimodal assistant prototype that perceives and reasons across continuous context.

CoreWeave established its European headquarters in London and announced a $1.25 billion regional infrastructure investment plan.

Meta introduced a second-generation MTIA accelerator with increased performance and memory capacity.

AWS announced its second-generation AI training accelerator with substantially higher performance.

Anthropic disclosed its Long-Term Benefit Trust governance structure, designed to protect the public-benefit mission as the company scales.

Anthropic published its first Responsible Scaling Policy, introducing AI Safety Levels and deployment safeguards tied to model capability.

Scale provided evaluation infrastructure for the White House-supported Generative Red Team Challenge at DEF CON 31, testing frontier models with thousands of participants.

Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd. was established by Liang Wenfeng as an AGI-focused research company originating from High-Flyer.

Elon Musk and the founding team publicly announced xAI with a mission to understand the true nature of the universe.

Meta unveiled its first in-house AI inference accelerator, designed initially for recommendation workloads.

Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample and Timothée Lacroix founded Mistral AI in Paris to build efficient frontier AI models with an open-weight strategy.

Google combines the DeepMind and Google Brain teams into a single unit, Google DeepMind, led by Demis Hassabis.

Anthropic described its strategy for building, measuring, and deploying capable AI systems while preparing for potentially transformative impacts.

Moonshot AI was founded in Beijing by Yang Zhilin, Zhou Xinyu and Wu Yuxin to develop frontier foundation models.

Scale announced a restructuring that reduced its employee workforce by roughly 20 percent after expanding too quickly during the prior growth cycle.

Meta moved PyTorch into an independent foundation hosted by the Linux Foundation.

Aravind Srinivas, Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho and Andy Konwinski founded Perplexity in San Francisco.

Microsoft publishes the second version of its Responsible AI Standard and supporting transparency materials.

The Cerner acquisition became the foundation for Oracle Health's clinical and data-intelligence AI portfolio.

Meta announced the AI Research SuperCluster, a large AI supercomputer designed to train advanced models.

Facebook renamed the parent company Meta Platforms to reflect its long-term focus on building the metaverse.

Scale established a dedicated St. Louis operations center to develop skilled U.S. data and evaluation workforces for government programs.

Hugging Face helped launch the BigScience open research workshop, coordinating an international collaboration to train a large multilingual language model.

Erik Bernhardsson and Akshat Bubna founded Modal to build a developer-friendly serverless cloud for compute-intensive workloads.

Anthropic was founded at the beginning of 2021 as an AI safety and research company led by Dario and Daniela Amodei.

AWS announced its first custom chip purpose-built for high-performance machine-learning training.

Microsoft spins Xiaoice into an independent company while retaining an investment interest.

After the cryptocurrency downturn, the company redirected its GPU fleet toward accelerated cloud workloads and changed its name to CoreWeave, Inc.

Microsoft organizes Project Turing to develop large language models shared across Bing, Office, Dynamics and Azure.

OpenAI created a capped-profit entity, OpenAI LP, to scale investment in compute and talent while keeping the nonprofit mission in control.

Aidan Gomez, Nick Frosst and Ivan Zhang founded Cohere to build broadly usable natural-language AI, later focusing on enterprise deployment.

AWS announced its first custom machine-learning inference chip.

The founders turned an experimental cryptocurrency-mining GPU setup into a business and expanded through opportunistic purchases of GPU hardware.

Michael Intrator, Brian Venturo, and Brannin McBee formed The Atlantic Crypto Corporation LLC, the company that later became CoreWeave.

At Google I/O, the company frames its strategic transition from mobile-first to AI-first products and computing.

Microsoft creates the AI and Research Group, combining research, information-platform and AI product teams under Harry Shum.

Alexandr Wang and Lucy Guo founded Scale in San Francisco and entered Y Combinator to build an API for routing human work, which evolved into AI data infrastructure.

Microsoft takes the Tay social chatbot offline after coordinated abuse caused it to produce offensive content, prompting a public review of safeguards and social-AI deployment.

Clément Delangue, Julien Chaumond, and Thomas Wolf founded Hugging Face in New York, initially building a conversational AI companion before pivoting toward open machine learning.

OpenAI launched as a nonprofit artificial intelligence research company with a mission to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

Baidu reported a milestone in fully autonomous road testing under complex conditions.

Google completes its reorganization under Alphabet Inc.; Google becomes the principal operating subsidiary while Alphabet becomes the publicly traded parent.