Releases

ElevenLabs launched Voice Isolator for separating speech from background audio.

Baidu released a faster and more capable version of ERNIE 4.0.

Baidu upgraded its AI coding assistant and repositioned it for enterprise and developer workflows.

DeepSeek updated its chat model with stronger code, math, reasoning and role-play performance.

Amazon hired Adept cofounder David Luan and members of the team while licensing Adept's agent technology.

Clay reported that its team had grown from under ten at launch to more than 50 employees.

Clay reported more than 100,000 users and over 2,500 customers.

Clay raised a $46 million Series B led by Meritech Capital.

Perplexity completed a reported financing round of roughly $250 million at a $3 billion valuation, including strategic backing from SoftBank.

Google releases Gemma 2, led by a 27B model with improved performance and efficiency.

Oracle expanded HeatWave from analytics and AutoML into an integrated generative-AI platform.

Oracle released automated in-database vector creation, storage and retrieval for HeatWave.

Oracle released in-database LLMs, automated vector storage and natural-language chat in HeatWave.

Hugging Face refreshed the Open LLM Leaderboard with a harder, contamination-resistant suite and new scoring methodology.

Anthropic expanded Claude availability for US government and intelligence-community customers through AWS.

EvolutionaryScale, founded by former Meta researchers, released ESM-3, a generative protein model originating from Meta's ESM program.

Anthropic launched Projects for organizing chats, knowledge, and collaboration around sustained work.

Major record labels filed copyright litigation concerning Suno's training practices.

Synthesia introduced a redesigned enterprise video communications platform with personal avatars, AI screen recording, knowledge-to-video tools, and interactive-video groundwork.

Investigations alleged that Perplexity accessed publisher content despite robots.txt restrictions; Perplexity disputed aspects of the reporting.

Anthropic introduced Artifacts, a side-by-side workspace for creating and iterating on Claude-generated content.

Anthropic released Claude 3.5 Sonnet with stronger reasoning, coding, writing, and vision performance.

HeyGen reported more than 40,000 paying business customers worldwide.

HeyGen raised a $60 million Series A led by Benchmark, with participation from Thrive Capital, BOND, and other investors.

HeyGen reported growing from $1 million to more than $35 million in annual recurring revenue in just over a year.

Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy announced SSI as a straight-shot research lab with one goal and one planned product: safe superintelligence.

Midjourney expanded shared creation rooms and room visibility on the web.

Speak reported more than 10 million learners across more than 40 countries.

Speak raised a $20 million Series B-3 led by Buckley Ventures, bringing total funding to $84 million.

Decagon publicly launched its generative-AI customer-support platform for enterprises.

Decagon raised a $30 million Series A led by Accel.

Decagon disclosed a $5 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz as it emerged from stealth.

Genspark launched an agentic search engine that generated synthesized Sparkpages and autonomous research experiences.

The first Copilot+ PCs become generally available from Microsoft and hardware partners.

Fireworks released an open-weight Llama 3-based function-calling model supporting multi-turn and parallel tool execution.

Runway released Gen-3 Alpha with improved fidelity, motion, consistency, and controls.

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

DeepSeek upgraded its coding API to the Coder V2 generation.

Microsoft releases Florence-2, a unified prompt-based vision model for captioning, grounding, detection and segmentation.

Hugging Face acquired Argilla, an open-source platform for human and synthetic data curation and model feedback.

Microsoft changes Recall from broad Copilot+ PC availability to a Windows Insider preview while strengthening security and privacy protections.

Databricks introduced Apps for building and deploying secure data and AI applications directly on the platform.

Databricks introduced AI/BI, pairing AI-assisted dashboards with Genie conversational analytics built on a compound AI system.

Databricks introduced MLflow Tracing for end-to-end observability and debugging of generative-AI applications and agents.

Databricks launched a framework for authoring, evaluating, deploying and monitoring production-quality compound AI systems.

Oracle and Google Cloud announced Database@Google Cloud and integration paths to Vertex AI and Gemini.

Mistral AI raised €600 million in equity and debt at a reported €5.8 billion valuation.

OpenAI and Apple announced integration of ChatGPT into iOS, iPadOS, and macOS experiences.

Forbes alleged that Perplexity had reproduced reporting without adequate attribution, beginning a broader public dispute over publisher content use.

Mistral AI introduced self-service fine-tuning through La Plateforme and released customization tooling.

Databricks agreed to acquire Tabular, founded by the creators of Apache Iceberg, to advance interoperability between Delta Lake and Iceberg.

Matt Garman succeeded Adam Selipsky as chief executive officer of Amazon Web Services.

Hugging Face released FineWeb-Edu, an educationally filtered subset that showed strong gains for small-model pretraining.

NVIDIA made ACE generative AI microservices generally available for cloud-based digital-human applications.

Baseten released Chains in beta as a framework and SDK for performant multi-model and multi-component AI workflows.

Harvey launched a structured workflow for legal due diligence.

ElevenLabs released Turbo v2 for lower-latency English speech synthesis.

ElevenLabs expanded Studio for long-form narration, publishing, and audiobook workflows.

Oracle made its voice-first clinical assistant available for healthcare workflows.

DeepSeek published its first open theorem-proving model for Lean 4.

DeepSeek introduced its formal theorem-proving model research line.

ElevenLabs released its generative sound-effects model.

ElevenLabs launched text-to-sound-effects generation.

Suno released v3.5 with longer and higher-quality music generation.

Hugging Face released FineWeb, a 15-trillion-token filtered and deduplicated English web dataset for language-model pretraining.

Perplexity launched Pages for turning research into structured, visually formatted and shareable articles.

Anthropic made tool use generally available across the Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Vertex AI.

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Edu for universities, with enterprise-grade controls and access to GPT-4o.

Scale made its model-evaluation platform generally available for model developers, enterprises, and public-sector organizations.

Scale launched expert-evaluated leaderboards for coding, instruction following, mathematics, and multilinguality using private, contamination-resistant prompt sets.

Mistral AI released Codestral, its first generative model specialized for code, under the Mistral AI Non-Production License.

xAI raised $6 billion from investors including Valor Equity Partners, Vy Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital and Fidelity; Reuters reported a $24 billion post-money valuation.

Cohere Labs released the open Aya 23 35B multilingual model spanning 23 languages.

Cohere Labs released the open Aya 23 8B multilingual model spanning 23 languages.

Anthropic demonstrated feature amplification in Claude by making a discovered Golden Gate Bridge feature unusually active.

Harvey partnered with Mistral AI to develop and deploy legal AI models.

Gamma reported a 16-person team at the time of its Series A.

Gamma reported that users had created more than 60 million Gamma documents and presentations.

Gamma raised a $12 million Series A led by Accel to expand its AI-powered content-creation platform.

Suno raised $125 million in funding at a reported $500 million valuation.

IBM released Granite Code models from 3B to 34B parameters under a permissive open-source license.

Scale closed a $1 billion primary-and-secondary financing led by Accel at a $13.8 billion valuation.

Microsoft and Hugging Face expanded their collaboration around open models, Azure AI, and enterprise deployment experiences.

Microsoft introduces Phi-3 Vision, a 4.2-billion-parameter multimodal model for image, chart, graph and table reasoning.

Microsoft expands Phi-3 with 7B Small and 14B Medium open models.

Microsoft releases Phi-3 Medium for higher-capability small-model workloads.

Anthropic appointed Krishna Rao as Chief Financial Officer.

Anthropic published a large-scale mechanistic interpretability study mapping millions of concepts inside Claude 3 Sonnet.

Hugging Face launched LeRobot to bring open models, datasets, policies, and reproducible tooling to real-world robotics.

Microsoft Research introduces Aurora, a foundation model for weather and atmospheric forecasting across multiple environmental domains.

Microsoft introduces Phi Silica, an on-device small language model optimized for Windows neural processing units.

Microsoft announces Recall, an on-device searchable visual history for Copilot+ PCs with user privacy controls.

Microsoft introduces Copilot+ PCs with neural processing units and a new generation of on-device AI experiences.

DeepSeek upgraded deepseek-chat with improved instruction following, JSON output and RAG performance.

CoreWeave signed a $7.5 billion debt facility led by Blackstone and Magnetar to expand its contracted high-performance compute fleet.

Meta introduced an early-fusion multimodal foundation model capable of generating and reasoning over interleaved text and images.

Baidu introduced its Autonomous Driving Foundation Model for Level 4 driving systems.

Grok-1.5 rolled out to Grok users on X.

Anthropic appointed Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger as Chief Product Officer.

Google launches AI Overviews in the United States, integrating generative summaries and supporting web links into Search.