Releases

Databricks introduced code-first Custom Agents for building, deploying and evaluating production agent systems using any LLM.

Hugging Face detailed a new storage and transfer architecture using Xet’s content-defined chunking to accelerate large repository operations.

Microsoft begins releasing Recall to Windows Insiders on supported Copilot+ PCs after redesigning security and privacy controls.

Microsoft launches Azure AI Agent Service in preview for building and managing enterprise AI agents.

Microsoft introduces Azure AI Foundry as a unified platform for developing, evaluating, deploying and governing AI applications and agents.

Perplexity launched an AI shopping experience with product cards, recommendations, visual search and merchant integrations.

Mistral AI upgraded Le Chat with web search, canvas, image generation and richer document-understanding features.

Baidu launched a no-code platform for generating applications from natural language.

Perplexity launched a dedicated sourced hub for the 2024 United States election.

OpenAI launched web search in ChatGPT with timely answers and source links.

Oracle introduced a generative-AI clinical workflow and documentation agent.

GitHub introduces Spark, an AI-native tool for building application experiences from natural language.

Hugging Face launched HUGS, optimized zero-configuration deployment containers for open generative models.

IBM released Docling for converting complex business documents into structured AI-ready formats.

Perplexity launched Spaces and Internal Knowledge Search for organizing research and searching company files alongside the web.

Perplexity introduced dedicated finance capabilities for stocks, company earnings and market research.

Amazon introduced generative-AI shopping guides that summarize category information and organize product recommendations.

OpenAI introduced Canvas, a collaborative interface for writing and coding projects in ChatGPT.

The LeRobot community introduced the SO-100, a low-cost open robot arm design for data collection and imitation learning.

Oracle released a managed retrieval-augmented generation and enterprise-agent service.

OpenAI began expanding ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode with more natural real-time audio conversations.

Modal added secure tunnels and execution improvements for sandbox workloads.

Modal added improved object-storage bucket mounting for data-intensive jobs.

Modal expanded secret management for applications and integrations.

Modal expanded queue-based communication between serverless functions.

Modal expanded its persistent key-value storage capabilities.

Modal improved persistent volume performance and reliability.

Modal expanded persistent storage and data-access capabilities for cloud workloads.

Modal improved support for distributed and GPU-intensive training workloads.

Modal expanded GPU availability and lowered prices across supported accelerators.

Oracle introduced a natural-language assistant for exploring and explaining enterprise analytics.

Oracle expanded its analytics platform with AI-generated insights and application-aware data models.

NotebookLM adds Audio Overviews, generating conversational podcast-style discussions grounded in notebook sources.

Oracle integrated HeatWave GenAI and vector processing with multicloud lakehouse data.

Oracle expanded AutoML with larger models, topic modeling, drift detection and improved anomaly detection.

Anthropic added organization workspaces to separate API keys, usage, and access controls.

Mosaic AI Agent Framework and Agent Evaluation entered public preview with integrated deployment, evaluation, tracing and governance.

Anthropic launched Claude for Enterprise with expanded context, security, administration, and GitHub integration.

CoreWeave publicly introduced Mission Control as its managed workflow for validating hardware, monitoring cluster health, and maintaining reliable AI infrastructure.

CoreWeave launched NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU instances and said it was the first cloud provider to bring the H200 to market.

IBM unveiled Telum II with upgraded on-chip AI acceleration for next-generation mainframes.

NVIDIA and partners launched reusable reference workflows for enterprise generative AI agents.

Anthropic made Artifacts generally available across Claude plans and added publishing and remixing capabilities.

Mistral AI expanded La Plateforme with model customization and fine-tuning capabilities.

GitHub launches Models in beta, letting developers compare and experiment with multiple AI models inside GitHub.

Perplexity launched a publisher program with revenue sharing, API access and technology support.

Meta launched AI Studio for creating, sharing and discovering custom AI characters.

OpenAI launched a limited prototype of SearchGPT with web answers and linked sources.

AWS made its generative-AI clinical documentation service generally available.

NVIDIA launched AI Foundry with NeMo, DGX Cloud and NIM services for building and deploying customized Llama 3.1 models.