Releases

Meta introduced Voicebox, a generative speech model capable of editing, sampling and cross-lingual speech generation.

CoreWeave released Tensorizer, an open-source tensor serialization tool that streams models from S3, HTTP, and file storage to reduce PyTorch model startup time.

Oracle announced a managed generative-AI service developed with Cohere for enterprise use cases.

Oracle selected Cohere models and OCI infrastructure to deliver native generative-AI services across Oracle applications.

Mistral AI raised a €105 million seed round, one of Europe's largest seed financings, at a reported valuation of roughly €240 million.

Cohere raised $270 million from Inovia, Oracle, NVIDIA, Salesforce and other investors to scale enterprise generative AI.

Microsoft Research introduces Orca, a 13-billion-parameter model trained from rich explanation traces produced by larger models.

Palantir began using intensive AIP Bootcamps to move customers rapidly from use case to working AI deployment.

Hugging Face launched a daily research-paper discovery feed connected to community profiles, models, datasets, and discussions.

Perplexity introduced its paid Pro subscription with expanded searches and access to advanced models.

NVIDIA announced DGX GH200, connecting 256 Grace Hopper Superchips into a large shared-memory AI system.

Hugging Face launched an open and reproducible benchmark leaderboard for comparing community language models.

Perplexity introduced Copilot, a guided multi-step research mode later renamed Pro Search.

Perplexity launched its native Android application.

Baidu began transforming Wenku into an ERNIE-powered document and creativity platform.

Microsoft announces a common plugin model spanning ChatGPT, Bing, Dynamics 365 Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Anthropic raised $450 million led by Spark Capital to scale reliable AI products and safety research.

AWS launched Inferentia2-powered EC2 instances for large-scale generative-AI inference.

Meta released MMS speech-recognition and synthesis models covering more than 1,100 languages.

Meta unveiled its first in-house AI inference accelerator, designed initially for recommendation workloads.

Anthropic and Zoom announced a partnership to use Claude in Zoom products, alongside an investment from Zoom Ventures.

Anthropic expanded Claude's API context window from 9K to 100K tokens.

Scale launched EGP as a model-agnostic enterprise platform for deploying secure generative-AI applications with proprietary data, fine-tuning, evaluation, and red teaming.

Scale launched Donovan, a secure decision-support platform using large language models, retrieval, and mission data for government and defense users.

Scale deployed Donovan for the U.S. Army XVIII Airborne Corps, describing it as the first large-language-model platform deployed on a classified network for the Corps.

Google Cloud launches Model Garden to discover, customize and deploy Google and third-party foundation models.

Google launches PaLM 2, improving multilingual, reasoning and coding capabilities across Google products and Cloud.

The release of Replit Code v1 3B established Replit's native family of open coding language models.

Replit released its open 3-billion-parameter code model for code completion.

IBM Consulting launched a center with more than 1,000 specialists to support enterprise generative-AI adoption.

IBM Consulting announced a dedicated generative-AI center and delivery practice alongside watsonx.

IBM announced watsonx as an integrated AI and data platform for enterprise foundation-model development and governance.

Meta released ImageBind, a joint embedding model spanning images, text, audio, depth, thermal and IMU data.

Anthropic published the principles used to train and guide Claude's behavior through Constitutional AI.

Together released base, instruction-tuned, and chat RedPajama-INCITE language models at 3B and 7B parameters under Apache 2.0.

MosaicML released MPT-7B, Base, Instruct, Chat and StoryWriter variants under commercially usable licenses.

BigCode released StarCoder, a 15.5B-parameter code model trained on permissively licensed code from The Stack.

Midjourney released V5.1 with stronger default aesthetics and coherence.

Databricks agreed to acquire data-governance company Okera to strengthen governance and AI security capabilities.

Baidu introduced ERNIE 3.5 as the new foundation model powering ERNIE Bot.

Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample and Timothée Lacroix founded Mistral AI in Paris to build efficient frontier AI models with an open-weight strategy.

ElevenLabs released its first multilingual speech-synthesis model.

Harvey raised a $21 million Series A led by Sequoia with participation from the OpenAI Startup Fund and others.

Scale partnered with Anthropic to help enterprises customize and deploy generative-AI applications powered by Claude.

Anthropic partnered with Scale AI to help enterprises deploy and customize generative AI applications powered by Claude.

Hugging Face launched HuggingChat, an open-source conversational interface initially powered by an OpenAssistant model.

CoreWeave closed a primary Series B funding round led by Magnetar Capital to expand its GPU cloud for generative AI.

Google combines the DeepMind and Google Brain teams into a single unit, Google DeepMind, led by Demis Hassabis.

Together and collaborators released a reproducible, openly licensed 1.2-trillion-token pre-training dataset following the LLaMA data recipe.

Meta released DINOv2, a self-supervised vision foundation model and pretrained visual features.

Amazon introduced its first text embedding foundation model through the Bedrock preview.

AWS made its generative-AI coding assistant generally available, including a free individual tier and reference tracking.

AWS announced a managed service for building generative-AI applications with foundation models from Amazon and third parties.

AWS introduced Amazon Titan, its family of text generation and embedding foundation models available through Bedrock.

Databricks released Dolly 2.0 with commercial-use weights and the human-generated databricks-dolly-15k instruction dataset.

Palantir announced AIP, connecting large language models and AI to private enterprise data, logic, and operations.

CoreWeave publicly detailed its managed inference service for securely serving AI models at scale.

Meta released SAM, its promptable image-segmentation model, together with model weights and the SA-1B dataset.

Midjourney and Spellbrush released Niji V5 for anime and illustrative generation.

Baidu launched an ERNIE-powered enterprise coding assistant.

Anthropic launched an early Claude integration for Slack workspaces.

Perplexity launched its native conversational answer-engine application for iPhone and iPad.

Perplexity raised $25.6 million in a Series A led by New Enterprise Associates.

Microsoft introduces Security Copilot, a generative-AI assistant for security investigation, threat intelligence and response.

Replit launched integrated conversational coding through Ghostwriter Chat.

Baidu AI Cloud launched Qianfan as an enterprise foundation-model and application-development platform.

Databricks released Dolly, a six-billion-parameter instruction-following model that could be trained inexpensively on one machine.

OpenAI introduced plugins connecting ChatGPT to third-party applications and fresh information.

GitHub introduces Copilot X, including conversational Copilot Chat experiences across editors, pull requests and command-line workflows.

Oracle expanded bare-metal GPU instances and high-performance networking for large AI training workloads.

CoreWeave made large-scale NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU infrastructure available for generative-AI training and inference workloads.

Microsoft launches Bing Image Creator, integrating generative image creation into Bing chat and the Edge sidebar.

Google begins opening Bard access in the United States and United Kingdom as an early generative-AI experiment.

NVIDIA launched DGX Cloud, providing browser-based access to managed AI supercomputing infrastructure.

NVIDIA announced broad H100 availability through leading cloud and server providers as generative AI demand surged.

NVIDIA introduced cloud services for enterprises to build custom language and visual generative AI models.

Runway released Gen-2 for text-to-video and image-to-video generation.

Baidu unveiled its generative conversational assistant, Wenxin Yiyan/ERNIE Bot.

Microsoft introduces Microsoft 365 Copilot and Business Chat, combining large language models with Microsoft Graph and productivity applications.

Midjourney released V5 with improved photorealism and prompt understanding.

Google Cloud announces generative AI capabilities in Vertex AI and Generative AI App Builder for enterprise customers.

Anthropic made Claude available through an API and chat interface in its developer console.

Anthropic introduced Claude and Claude Instant more broadly after a closed alpha with partners.

OpenAI released GPT-4, a multimodal large model accepting image and text inputs and producing text outputs.

MosaicML released MosaicBERT, an optimized BERT architecture designed to pretrain high-quality models at much lower cost.

Anthropic described its strategy for building, measuring, and deploying capable AI systems while preparing for potentially transformative impacts.

Microsoft introduces Dynamics 365 Copilot across sales, service, marketing, supply chain and business workflows.

Anysphere launched Cursor, an AI-native editor based on the VS Code ecosystem with codebase-aware chat and editing.

Moonshot AI was founded in Beijing by Yang Zhilin, Zhou Xinyu and Wu Yuxin to develop frontier foundation models.

Cohere established Command as its principal family of enterprise generative language models.

Cohere released Command Light as a lower-latency generation option for enterprise text workloads.

Cohere introduced the Command generation family for enterprise summarization, conversation and text workflows.

OpenAI made the Whisper speech-to-text model available through its API.

OpenAI released the Chat Completions API with gpt-3.5-turbo for developers.

Microsoft Research introduces Kosmos-1, a multimodal large language model capable of perceiving visual inputs and following language instructions.

Meta released the first LLaMA model family for approved research use, spanning 7B to 65B parameters.

AWS and Hugging Face announced a strategic collaboration to make generative AI more accessible and optimize Transformers training and deployment on AWS infrastructure.

Microsoft releases Semantic Kernel to help developers integrate language models, plugins, memory and planning into applications.

Microsoft launches a new AI-powered Bing and Edge with conversational search, synthesized answers and content generation.

Gen-1 established Runway's Gen family of generative video models.