Releases

Speak reported nearly 100,000 paying subscribers and double-digit millions of dollars in annual recurring revenue.

Meta withdrew the public Galactica demo after criticism over unreliable and misleading generated scientific content.

Meta AI released a research demo of Galactica, a large language model trained on scientific knowledge.

Amazon introduced an AI and computer-vision system able to identify and handle individual products.

BigScience released BLOOMZ and mT0, instruction-finetuned multilingual models derived from BLOOM and the xP3 task collection.

Midjourney released V4 with major improvements in realism, artistic coherence, and detail.

Harvey launched its conversational legal assistant for research, drafting, and analysis.

Cohere released its second-generation multilingual embedding model for semantic search across more than 100 languages.

The BigCode project released The Stack, a large permissively licensed source-code dataset with tools for governance and opt-out.

Meta AI published hundreds of millions of predicted metagenomic protein structures with ESMFold.

Replit launched Ghostwriter with AI completion, generation, transformation, and explanation tools.

Cohere established its Rerank family of cross-encoder relevance models for search pipelines.

Cohere made relevance reranking available through a dedicated API endpoint requiring only a small search-stack integration.

Cohere introduced a multilingual cross-encoder Rerank endpoint for improving keyword and semantic search results.

Meta released EnCodec, a neural audio codec for high-fidelity compression.

IBM Research disclosed an AI accelerator built for efficient enterprise inference.

MLflow 2.0 expanded evaluation, pipelines and deployment workflows for production machine learning.

Microsoft announces Designer, an AI-powered graphic-design application using generative image technology.

AWS launched Trainium-powered EC2 instances for high-performance deep-learning training.

Google Research introduces AudioLM for generating long-term coherent, high-fidelity audio from discrete representations.

Hugging Face launched managed, autoscaling dedicated endpoints for deploying models from the Hub.

Meta open-sourced AITemplate, a Python framework that transforms neural networks into optimized GPU code.

Hugging Face released Text Generation Inference, a production server optimized for large-language-model generation.

Meta presented Make-A-Video, a system for generating short videos from text prompts.

OpenAI removed the DALL-E beta waitlist and expanded access to new users.

OpenAI released Whisper, a multilingual speech-recognition model, together with model weights and inference code.

NVIDIA introduced BioNeMo, a generative AI service for chemistry and biomolecular research.

Meta moved PyTorch into an independent foundation hosted by the Linux Foundation.

HeyGen, then known as Movio, launched its web application for generating avatar-led videos.

Perplexity raised approximately $3.1 million in seed financing from Elad Gil and a group of prominent AI and technology investors.

Diffusers added first-class support for Stable Diffusion, enabling local and hosted generation workflows around the newly released open model.

Hugging Face launched its enterprise platform around Private Hub, secure collaboration, governance, deployment, and organizational support.

Hugging Face launched Private Hub as a secure and compliant platform for organizations to collaborate on models, datasets, and applications.

Amazon researchers published a 20-billion-parameter multilingual sequence-to-sequence teacher model.

Baidu launched an ERNIE-powered AI art and creative-generation service.

Hugging Face released Transformer Reinforcement Learning tooling for post-training language models with supervised, preference, and reinforcement-learning methods.

Aravind Srinivas, Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho and Andy Konwinski founded Perplexity in San Francisco.

Sequoia and Index purchased shares from Notion employees at the same $10 billion valuation as the prior financing.

The AlphaFold database expands to predicted structures for nearly every catalogued protein known to science.

Midjourney released V3 as the default image model.

Baidu unveiled its sixth-generation purpose-built autonomous vehicle.

Hugging Face launched Diffusers, an open-source library providing modular pipelines for diffusion-based generative models.

Meta introduced Make-A-Scene, a multimodal generative method that gives creators scene-level control over images.

Midjourney opened its image-generation service to the public through its Discord bot.

The BigScience workshop released BLOOM, a 176-billion-parameter multilingual language model trained on the Jean Zay supercomputer.

Meta released NLLB-200, a machine-translation model covering 200 languages.

AWS introduced its generative-AI coding companion in preview.

Amazon unveiled its first fully autonomous mobile robot for safely operating around employees.

Microsoft publishes the second version of its Responsible AI Standard and supporting transparency materials.

GitHub Copilot becomes generally available to individual developers as a subscription product.