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.