Releases

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.