Releases

Hugging Face acquired XetHub to bring content-defined chunking, deduplication, and high-performance storage to large AI repositories.

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

Amazon updated its image model with image conditioning, subject consistency and background-removal capabilities.

Moonshot raised a reported $300 million round that valued the company at $3.3 billion.

DeepSeek introduced disk-based context caching to reduce repeated-token costs.

Google enters a non-exclusive technology licensing agreement with Character.AI and brings co-founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, plus members of their research team, into Google DeepMind.

Black Forest Labs released the fast FLUX.1 [schnell] model under Apache 2.0.

Black Forest Labs released FLUX.1 [dev] weights for non-commercial use.

Black Forest Labs released its hosted flagship 12B FLUX.1 text-to-image model.

Black Forest Labs announced a $31 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz.

Scale released MultiChallenge to measure model performance on realistic multi-turn conversation problems involving memory, instruction retention, editing, and self-consistency.

Perplexity partnered with Uber to offer eligible Uber One members a complimentary year of Perplexity Pro.

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

Google releases ShieldGemma, open safety classifiers built on Gemma 2 for filtering model inputs and outputs.

Midjourney released V6.1 with improved details, image quality, speed, text, and personalization.

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.

Meta released SAM 2 for promptable object segmentation in both images and video.

The API gained JSON mode, function calling, chat-prefix completion and fill-in-the-middle completion.

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

DeepSeek upgraded the deepseek-coder API to the July Coder V2 checkpoint.

Mistral AI released Mistral Large 2, a 123B flagship model with a 128K context window and improved multilingual and coding performance.

Together AI and NVIDIA collaborated to make Llama 3.1 available to enterprises on NVIDIA DGX Cloud using Together's inference engine.

Harvey raised $100 million at a $1.5 billion valuation in a GV-led Series C.

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