Releases

Microsoft completes its acquisition of Nuance, adding clinical speech recognition, ambient intelligence and conversational AI to its portfolio.

Hugging Face introduced browser previews and automatic processing for datasets hosted on the Hub.

Hugging Face introduced SafeTensors as a fast tensor serialization format designed to avoid arbitrary-code execution.

Cohere raised $125 million in a Series B led by Tiger Global to expand its enterprise language-model platform.

Midjourney released its first public text-to-image model.

Scale expanded its data engine beyond perception data into expert demonstrations, preference feedback, red teaming, and reinforcement learning from human feedback for language models.

OpenAI introduced instruction-following models trained with human feedback.

Meta open-sourced TorchRec, a PyTorch library for large-scale recommendation systems.

OpenAI released a new endpoint and model families for text and code embeddings.

The U.S. government awarded Scale a contract vehicle worth up to $249 million to make its AI data and development capabilities available across federal agencies.

Meta announced the AI Research SuperCluster, a large AI supercomputer designed to train advanced models.

IBM agreed to sell healthcare data and analytics assets from Watson Health to Francisco Partners.

Crusoe closed a $350 million Series C equity financing led by G2 Venture Partners to scale its climate-aligned computing infrastructure.

Suno was founded to make music creation accessible through generative AI.

Runway established its production initiative for films and creative projects using generative AI.

Hivemind autonomously piloted an F-16-class aircraft in testing.

Winston Weinberg and Gabriel Pereyra founded Harvey to build domain-specific generative AI for legal and professional services.

ElevenLabs' first financing valued the company at $9 million.

Mati Staniszewski and Piotr Dabkowski founded ElevenLabs to build human-like synthetic speech.

Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark, and Aman Sanger founded Anysphere to build an AI-native programming environment.

Palantir introduced FedStart to help software vendors reach government customers through accredited infrastructure and deployment support.

Cohere began offering enterprise model deployment within customer-controlled cloud and on-premises environments.

Cohere introduced its Embed model family for semantic representation and retrieval.

Cohere launched a free educational curriculum covering large language models, embeddings and semantic search.

Cohere established its open-science research initiative, now known as Cohere Labs, to support collaborative machine-learning research.