Releases

Databricks announced a Series J targeting $10 billion, with $8.6 billion completed at announcement, valuing the company at $62 billion.

Google DeepMind introduces Veo 2 with improved realism, physics and camera controls for video generation.

DeepSeek published its second-generation mixture-of-experts vision-language models.

Google Cloud announces Agentspace for enterprise search, conversational assistance and task-oriented agents grounded in company data.

Crusoe raised $600 million in a Series D led by Founders Fund to expand AI data centers and Crusoe Cloud.

Crusoe announced general availability of Crusoe Cloud with managed services and enterprise support for model training, fine-tuning and inference.

xAI expanded Grok access beyond paid tiers to everyone on X, alongside speed and multilingual improvements.

Meta released a behavioral foundation model for controlling virtual humanoid agents.

Microsoft releases Phi-4, a 14-billion-parameter small language model specializing in complex reasoning.

Google announces Jules, an asynchronous coding agent that works on GitHub repositories and presents changes for review.

The Gemini app launches Deep Research, using long context and reasoning to investigate topics and compile reports.

Google releases experimental Gemini 2.0 Flash with native tool use, multimodal output and real-time streaming capabilities.

Speak reported more than 200 Speak for Business customers and an average employee adoption rate of 85%.

Speak reported delivering 25 million personalized lessons during 2024.

Speak reported that learners had spoken one billion sentences in the app during 2024.

Speak raised a $78 million Series C led by Accel, bringing total funding to $162 million.

Replit took Agent out of early access and launched the redesigned Assistant.

The final V2.5 update improved mathematics, coding, writing, file handling and web-page summarization.

xAI launched the autoregressive Aurora image-generation model on X, adding photorealistic generation and multimodal image input.

OpenAI launched the Sora video-generation product for ChatGPT Plus and Pro users, powered by Sora Turbo.

The Government of Canada announced up to C$240 million to support Cohere's Canadian AI compute capacity project.

Meta released a multilingual 70B instruction model with performance comparable to larger Llama 3.1 models.

Suno launched its Android mobile application.

Harvey made secure direct document access from SharePoint and OneDrive generally available.

Harvey launched a Microsoft Word add-in for legal drafting and analysis.

Harvey announced integrations with Microsoft SharePoint, OneDrive, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and Word.

Perplexity expanded its publisher program with 15 additional media organizations.

Microsoft begins previewing Copilot Vision, allowing Copilot to discuss and assist with shared browsing content.

Google releases PaliGemma 2, expanding the open vision-language family with new model sizes and resolutions.

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Pro, a higher-tier subscription with expanded access to advanced models.

OpenAI released the full o1 reasoning model in ChatGPT and announced related API improvements.

AWS introduced a marketplace for discovering and deploying specialized models through Bedrock.

Microsoft Research introduces BioEmu for efficiently sampling diverse protein conformational ensembles.

Google DeepMind introduces Genie 2, capable of generating diverse playable 3D environments from a prompt image.

AWS announced SageMaker Unified Studio as part of a unified data, analytics and AI development experience.

AWS introduced managed generative-AI extraction of structured insights from multimodal content.

AWS launched Trn2 instances and UltraServers for training and serving large foundation models.

AWS released its first Nova video-generation model.

AWS released its Nova image-generation and editing model.

AWS released a capable multimodal Nova model for enterprise and agentic workloads.

AWS released a low-cost multimodal Nova model through Amazon Bedrock.

AWS released the text-only low-latency Nova model through Amazon Bedrock.

Anthropic reduced Claude 3.5 Haiku pricing to $0.80 per million input tokens and $4 per million output tokens.

Cohere introduced Rerank 3.5 with stronger reasoning and multilingual retrieval over complex enterprise data.

Amazon released a faster and more memory-efficient zero-shot forecasting model family.

Palantir launched Warp Speed as an AI-powered manufacturing operating system and industrial deployment initiative.

Oracle had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $512.2 billion as of Nov 30, 2024 (NYSE: ORCL), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Hugging Face released SmolVLM, a compact 2B vision-language model designed to run with very low memory.

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.

Runway introduced Frames, an image model emphasizing stylistic control.

Anthropic introduced and open-sourced MCP, its specification, SDKs, local Claude Desktop support, and reference servers.

Amazon committed an additional $4 billion to Anthropic, bringing its total investment to $8 billion and naming AWS Anthropic's primary training partner.

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

Amazon made a new $4 billion investment in Anthropic, bringing its total investment to $8 billion and naming AWS the primary cloud and training partner.

Suno released v4 with better audio, lyrics, and song structures.

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.

Lovable launched its natural-language software creation platform publicly.

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.

Mistral AI released Pixtral Large, a 124B multimodal model for image and document understanding.

Palantir released Ontology SDK capabilities for developers building applications against governed objects and actions.

Palantir formalized its developer platform alongside AIP for Developers, SDKs, APIs, and application tooling.

Developer Console became available as part of Palantir's expanded developer offering.

Palantir launched AIP for Developers, combining Ontology APIs, SDKs, agents, and application-building tools.

DeepSeek released JanusFlow using rectified flow for image generation.

A $650 million secondary share transaction valued CoreWeave at approximately $23 billion ahead of its public offering.

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

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

Cursor acquired the Supermaven team and technology, later integrating its high-speed completion work into Cursor Tab.

Anthropic, AWS, and Palantir announced availability of Claude models for U.S. intelligence and defense agencies through Palantir AI platforms.

Mistral AI launched a moderation API for safety classification and content policy enforcement.

Mistral AI launched an asynchronous Batch API for high-volume model inference.

Physical Intelligence raised $400 million from investors including Jeff Bezos, OpenAI, Thrive Capital, Lux Capital and Bond Capital.

Scale released Defense Llama, a Llama 3-based model fine-tuned for controlled U.S. national-security use cases inside Scale Donovan.

xAI opened public API access to Grok foundation models with OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible interfaces.

Anthropic released Claude 3.5 Haiku as a faster model with substantially improved intelligence and coding performance.

Fireworks introduced f1 and f1-mini, compound-AI reasoning systems that interleave multiple open models at inference time.

ElevenLabs launched a platform for building real-time voice agents.

Moonshot disclosed k0-math as an experimental reinforcement-learning model for mathematical reasoning.

Hugging Face released the second generation of its 135M, 360M, and 1.7B compact language models with stronger instruction following.

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

Physical Intelligence introduced π0, a general-purpose vision-language-action flow model trained on diverse robot data.

Suno launched Personas for carrying the style and identity of a song into future creations.

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.

NVIDIA had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $3.472 trillion as of Oct 27, 2024 (NASDAQ: NVDA), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Midjourney launched Retexture for changing a scene's materials, lighting, and surfaces.

Midjourney launched editing for uploaded external images.

Cohere Labs released Aya Expanse 32B as the larger Aya Expanse multilingual model.

Cohere Labs released Aya Expanse 8B with improved multilingual generation across 23 languages.

Gradio 5 introduced redesigned application theming, stronger security defaults, and improved AI app development workflows.

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

Runway released Act-One for expressive performance capture and character animation.

Anthropic launched computer use in public beta, allowing developers to direct Claude to operate graphical computer interfaces.

Anthropic released an upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet with major coding and tool-use improvements.

IBM released its Granite 3.0 8B model with enterprise and agentic capabilities under Apache 2.0.

IBM released its compact Granite 3.0 2B enterprise language model under Apache 2.0.