Releases

IBM agreed to acquire HashiCorp to expand hybrid-cloud automation for infrastructure supporting generative AI.

NVIDIA entered a definitive agreement to acquire AI workload orchestration provider Run:ai.

Perplexity raised $62.7 million in a Series B extension led by Daniel Gross, taking its valuation above $1 billion.

Perplexity launched Enterprise Pro, its first business subscription with organizational search, security and data controls.

AWS made configurable Bedrock safety controls generally available.

Microsoft releases Phi-3 Mini, a 3.8-billion-parameter model designed for capable language and reasoning on constrained devices.

Synthesia reported that more than 200,000 people had used its avatars to create over 18 million video presentations.

Synthesia released EXPRESS-1, its fourth-generation avatar model for context-aware voice, facial expression, gaze, and body language.

Meta and World Resources Institute released global high-resolution canopy-height maps built with DINOv2.

Together AI partnered with Meta to offer Llama 3 models for high-performance inference and fine-tuning at launch.

Meta released the Llama 3-based update to its open safeguard model.

Meta released the 8B Llama 3 pretrained and instruction-tuned models.

Meta released the 70B Llama 3 pretrained and instruction-tuned models.

Hugging Face released IDEFICS2, an 8B visual-language model with stronger OCR, document, and visual reasoning capabilities.

Mistral AI released Mixtral 8x22B, a larger open sparse mixture-of-experts model.

Microsoft invests $1.5 billion in G42 and expands a strategic partnership covering Azure, responsible AI, infrastructure and emerging-market deployments.

xAI previewed its first multimodal model, adding understanding of documents, diagrams, charts, screenshots and photographs.

Meta introduced a second-generation MTIA accelerator with increased performance and memory capacity.

Google releases CodeGemma variants for code completion, code generation and instruction following.

Databricks optimized DBRX inference and made the model available through Mosaic AI Model Serving.

Oracle and Palantir partnered to make Palantir platforms available across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and combine cloud, data, and AI capabilities.

Command R+ became available first through Microsoft Azure alongside Cohere's hosted API.

Cohere introduced Command R+, its higher-capacity enterprise model for advanced RAG, multilingual generation and tools.

Replit introduced a native 7B model specialized for fixing language-server diagnostic errors.

Anthropic published research showing how long-context models can be jailbroken using many demonstrations and proposed mitigations.

Reported unique users of Baidu's ERNIE Bot in April 2024.

Sentient's ViDAR visual detection and ranging capability joined Shield AI's product portfolio.

Shield AI acquired Sentient Vision Systems and its wide-area motion-imaging portfolio.

Security Copilot becomes generally available with integrations across Microsoft's security portfolio.

xAI announced Grok-1.5 with improved reasoning and a 128,000-token context window.

Databricks released DBRX, a 132-billion-total-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 36 billion active parameters under an open license.

Amazon invested an additional $2.75 billion in Anthropic, completing the $4 billion commitment announced in 2023.

Amazon invested an additional $2.75 billion, completing its initial $4 billion Anthropic investment commitment.

Cohere Labs made Command R weights available for research and evaluation.

Cohere released Command R, a 128K-context model optimized for production RAG, citations and tool use.

Suno released v3 with improved full-song generation, vocals, and instrumentation.

Midjourney released new Style Reference algorithms and versioning.

Anthropic, AWS, and Accenture partnered to help enterprises, including regulated industries, deploy Claude-based solutions.

Harvey launched its professional-services AI platform on Microsoft Azure.

Microsoft enters an AI licensing arrangement with Inflection and hires Mustafa Suleyman, Karén Simonyan and members of the Inflection team to build Microsoft AI.

Microsoft forms the Microsoft AI organization focused on Copilot and consumer AI, appointing Mustafa Suleyman as EVP and CEO and Karén Simonyan as Chief Scientist.

Anthropic made Claude 3 models available to Google Cloud customers through Vertex AI.

Crusoe announced plans to offer NVIDIA Blackwell-powered instances for AI training and inference customers.

Kimi opened a beta supporting up to two million Chinese characters of context.

Microsoft and NVIDIA expand integrations across Azure AI, NVIDIA NIM, Omniverse and enterprise generative-AI infrastructure.

NVIDIA and AWS announced broader Blackwell infrastructure and generative AI software integrations.

NVIDIA and Microsoft expanded integrations spanning Azure AI, NIM, Omniverse and enterprise generative AI.

NVIDIA introduced the Blackwell GPU architecture, B100, B200 and GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip for generative AI.

NVIDIA launched NIM, containerized optimized inference microservices for generative AI deployment.

NVIDIA announced DGX GB200 and a Blackwell-powered DGX SuperPOD reference architecture.

NVIDIA launched Earth-2 cloud APIs and AI models for high-resolution weather and climate simulation.

NVIDIA announced a general-purpose foundation model initiative for humanoid robots.

xAI released the 314B-parameter Grok-1 base weights and Mixture-of-Experts architecture under Apache 2.0.

Together AI reported more than 45,000 registered developers using its serverless inference and fine-tuning APIs.

Together AI raised $106 million in financing led by Salesforce Ventures to scale its open-model AI platform.

Google DeepMind introduces SIMA, an instructable agent that follows natural-language directions across multiple 3D environments.

Anthropic released Claude 3 Haiku as the fastest and least expensive model in the Claude 3 family.

Cognition introduced Devin, an autonomous AI software engineer capable of planning and executing software-development tasks.

Applied Intuition raised $250 million in Series E financing led by Lux Capital, Elad Gil and Porsche Investments Management.

Midjourney introduced Character Reference for preserving character appearance across generations.

Oracle introduced a cloud platform combining clinical, claims and operational data with analytics and AI.

Amazon researchers released pretrained Chronos-T5 time-series foundation models and code.

DeepSeek introduced an open vision-language model family for real-world multimodal understanding.

DeepSeek released 1.3B and 7B base and chat checkpoints.

The U.S. Army selected Palantir to develop and deliver the TITAN ground station system integrating sensors, data, and AI.

SambaNova announced Samba-1, a 1.3-trillion-parameter Composition of Experts system comprising 92 specialist models behind one endpoint.

Accenture and Cohere formed a strategic collaboration to deliver secure generative-AI solutions to enterprise customers.

Claude 3 Opus and Claude 3 Sonnet became available on Claude.ai and the generally available Claude API.

Anthropic announced Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku, adding multimodal image understanding and a three-tier capability lineup.

Physical Intelligence raised a $70 million seed round to build general-purpose AI foundation models for robots.

Harvey and OpenAI developed a custom domain-specific model for legal case-law tasks.

The first proprietary Tab model established Cursor's in-house coding-model family.

Cursor shipped its first custom sparse language model for edit prediction, powering Cursor Tab suggestions.

Moonshot released Mooncake, a KV-cache-centric architecture for disaggregated large-model serving.

Moonshot began publishing open systems research for efficient long-context model training and serving.

BigCode released StarCoder2 models at 3B, 7B, and 15B scales in collaboration with ServiceNow and NVIDIA.

Glean raised $200 million in Series D financing to accelerate deployment of enterprise generative AI.

GitHub launches Copilot Enterprise with codebase-aware assistance and GitHub.com integration.

Perplexity partnered with SK Telecom to distribute Perplexity Pro to the telecom company's users.

Microsoft invested €15 million in Mistral AI through a convertible note alongside the companies' commercial partnership.

Microsoft and Mistral AI announced a multiyear partnership to make Mistral models available through Azure AI and collaborate on AI development and distribution.

Mistral AI launched Le Chat, its conversational AI assistant.

Mistral AI introduced Mistral Small as its efficient commercial model tier.

Mistral AI launched its first flagship commercial model, Mistral Large.

Microsoft announces a multiyear partnership and €15 million investment in Mistral AI, bringing its models to Azure AI.

Google DeepMind introduces Genie, a generative interactive environment model trained from unlabelled internet videos.

Perplexity and ElevenLabs launched the Discover Daily AI-generated news podcast.

Abridge raised $150 million in Series C financing to expand its enterprise clinical AI platform.

Google Cloud launches Gemini Code Assist, evolving Duet AI for Developers into a Gemini-powered coding assistant.

Google releases Gemma 2B and 7B open models with weights and responsible AI tooling.

Cohere added function calling and tool-use capabilities for building grounded enterprise agents.

Moonshot raised about $1 billion in a financing round led by Alibaba, reaching a reported $2.5 billion valuation.

Meta released V-JEPA, a video model trained by predicting missing representations rather than pixels.

Google DeepMind introduces Gemini 1.5 Pro with a mixture-of-experts architecture and a one-million-token context window.

OpenAI introduced Sora, a text-to-video model, as a research preview for red teamers and selected creators.

Sierra publicly launched its enterprise platform for building customer-facing AI agents.

Cohere Labs' Aya initiative culminated in its first open multilingual model and dataset work spanning 101 languages.

Cohere For AI released Aya 101, an open multilingual instruction-following model covering 101 languages.

Gemini 1.0 Ultra becomes available to consumers through the new Gemini Advanced subscription.

Google renames Bard to Gemini, launches the Gemini mobile experience and introduces Gemini Advanced with Ultra 1.0.