Releases
153 matching — model launches, API releases, product updates, financial events and news.
February 20252
Feb 26, 2025
Phi-4 Mini releasedOpen weights
Microsoft releases Phi-4 Mini, a compact long-context language model with multilingual and function-calling capabilities.
Feb 19, 2025Muse world and action model introducedResearch paper
Microsoft Research and Xbox introduce Muse, a generative world and action model trained on gameplay sequences.
January 20255
Jan 21, 2025Microsoft and OpenAI evolve cloud partnership termsPartnership
Microsoft and OpenAI update their partnership structure while preserving Microsoft rights to OpenAI intellectual property and Azure API exclusivity.
Jan 16, 2025MatterGen research publishedResearch paper
Microsoft Research publishes MatterGen, a generative model that designs stable inorganic materials conditioned on target properties.
Jan 15, 2025Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat launchedProduct launch
Microsoft launches Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat with web-grounded AI chat, work-data access and support for agents.
Jan 13, 2025Microsoft creates CoreAI – Platform and ToolsEvent
Microsoft forms CoreAI – Platform and Tools under Jay Parikh, combining developer, AI platform, supercomputing and agent-runtime teams.
Jan 3, 2025Microsoft plans roughly $80 billion in FY2025 AI datacenter investmentNews
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.
December 20243
Dec 12, 2024Phi-4 releasedOpen weights
Microsoft releases Phi-4, a 14-billion-parameter small language model specializing in complex reasoning.
Dec 5, 2024Copilot Vision enters limited previewProduct launch
Microsoft begins previewing Copilot Vision, allowing Copilot to discuss and assist with shared browsing content.
Dec 4, 2024BioEmu generative protein model introducedResearch paper
Microsoft Research introduces BioEmu for efficiently sampling diverse protein conformational ensembles.
November 20243
Nov 22, 2024Windows Recall enters Insider previewProduct launch
Microsoft begins releasing Recall to Windows Insiders on supported Copilot+ PCs after redesigning security and privacy controls.
Nov 19, 2024Azure AI Agent Service enters previewProduct launch
Microsoft launches Azure AI Agent Service in preview for building and managing enterprise AI agents.
Nov 19, 2024Azure AI Foundry introducedProduct launch
Microsoft introduces Azure AI Foundry as a unified platform for developing, evaluating, deploying and governing AI applications and agents.
October 20241
Oct 29, 2024GitHub Spark announced in technical previewProduct launch
GitHub introduces Spark, an AI-native tool for building application experiences from natural language.
September 20241
Sep 17, 2024Microsoft joins Global AI Infrastructure Investment PartnershipPartnership
Microsoft, BlackRock, Global Infrastructure Partners and MGX form an investment partnership to mobilize capital for AI datacenters and supporting energy infrastructure.
August 20244
Aug 20, 2024Phi-3.5 Vision releasedOpen weights
Microsoft releases Phi-3.5 Vision for multimodal image and text understanding.
Aug 20, 2024Phi-3.5 MoE releasedOpen weights
Microsoft releases Phi-3.5 MoE, a mixture-of-experts small language model.
Aug 20, 2024Phi-3.5 Mini releasedOpen weights
Microsoft releases Phi-3.5 Mini with multilingual support and a long context window.
Aug 1, 2024GitHub Models launches in limited public betaProduct launch
GitHub launches Models in beta, letting developers compare and experiment with multiple AI models inside GitHub.
July 20241
Jul 17, 2024Microsoft Designer becomes generally availableProduct launch
Microsoft Designer exits preview as a standalone app and expands generative design capabilities across Microsoft products.
June 20243
Jun 18, 2024Copilot+ PCs reach general availabilityProduct launch
The first Copilot+ PCs become generally available from Microsoft and hardware partners.
Jun 14, 2024Florence-2 open vision model releasedOpen weights
Microsoft releases Florence-2, a unified prompt-based vision model for captioning, grounding, detection and segmentation.
Jun 13, 2024Microsoft delays broad Recall rollout for security reviewSafety report
Microsoft changes Recall from broad Copilot+ PC availability to a Windows Insider preview while strengthening security and privacy protections.
May 20242
May 21, 2024Phi-3 Vision introducedOpen weights
Microsoft introduces Phi-3 Vision, a 4.2-billion-parameter multimodal model for image, chart, graph and table reasoning.
May 21, 2024Phi-3 Small and Medium releasedOpen weights
Microsoft expands Phi-3 with 7B Small and 14B Medium open models.