Releases

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.

Runway released Gen-1 for text- and image-guided video transformation.

Google announces Bard, a LaMDA-powered conversational AI service, for trusted testers ahead of public access.

Google Cloud and Anthropic announce a strategic partnership covering cloud infrastructure, AI accelerators and responsible development of large AI systems.

Anthropic selected Google Cloud as a cloud partner for training and deploying its AI systems, alongside a strategic investment relationship.

ElevenLabs introduced high-fidelity voice cloning for authorized professional use.

OpenAI launched the $20-per-month ChatGPT Plus subscription in the United States.

Google Research introduces MusicLM, a hierarchical text-to-music generation model for high-fidelity audio.

CoreWeave acquired Conductor Technologies and its cloud task-management and burst-rendering platform, extending the cloud into end-to-end VFX and animation workflows.

Microsoft announces a multiyear, multibillion-dollar extension of its OpenAI partnership covering supercomputing, model deployment and Azure commercialization.

OpenAI and Microsoft announced a multiyear, multibillion-dollar extension of their partnership, including Azure supercomputing investment and exclusive cloud-provider status.

Microsoft makes Azure OpenAI Service generally available with enterprise access to OpenAI models through Azure.

The release of Eleven v1 established ElevenLabs' proprietary audio-model family.

ElevenLabs launched its browser-based text-to-speech product for expressive synthetic speech.

ElevenLabs launched its first text-to-speech model and opened the platform in beta.

Scale announced a restructuring that reduced its employee workforce by roughly 20 percent after expanding too quickly during the prior growth cycle.

Replit expanded integrated storage and application database capabilities.

Replit expanded managed deployment and application hosting.

Shield AI demonstrated autonomous air-combat maneuvering and dogfighting capabilities.

Cursor introduced predictive Tab completion and next-action editing.

Cursor introduced repository-aware conversational coding.

Cursor introduced natural-language inline code editing.

Palantir introduced defense-focused AIP capabilities for mission workflows.

AIP Automations became available for event-driven operational and AI workflows.

AIP Assist became part of Palantir's generative-AI workflow suite.

AIP Logic became available for building governed AI functions and agentic workflows.

Cohere added governed connectors to ground generative applications in enterprise repositories and data systems.

Cohere introduced a conversational Chat API that evolved to support RAG, citations, tools and structured outputs.

Scale launched Outlier to connect subject-matter experts with generative-AI training and evaluation projects.

Hugging Face expanded its organization offering with team and enterprise plans for private repositories, access control, governance, and support.

NVIDIA market capitalisation at end of calendar year 2022, down 51% from the prior year amid a broader semiconductor and tech sector downturn.

Google Research presents Med-PaLM, adapting PaLM to medical question answering and clinical knowledge benchmarks.

Anthropic published Constitutional AI, a method for training a harmless assistant through AI feedback guided by explicit principles.

OpenAI released text-embedding-ada-002, replacing multiple earlier embedding models with a more capable and lower-cost model.

Hugging Face released Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning tools for adapting large models with methods such as LoRA.

Perplexity launched its citation-first conversational answer engine for real-time web search.

Midjourney and Spellbrush launched the Niji model collaboration focused on anime and illustration.

Magnetar backed CoreWeave with a $100 million strategic investment to expand GPU capacity for AI, machine learning, and visual-computing customers.

OpenAI launched ChatGPT as a conversational research preview.

Harvey raised a $5 million seed round led by the OpenAI Startup Fund.

Meta withdrew the public Galactica demo after criticism over unreliable and misleading generated scientific content.

Meta AI released a research demo of Galactica, a large language model trained on scientific knowledge.

Amazon introduced an AI and computer-vision system able to identify and handle individual products.

BigScience released BLOOMZ and mT0, instruction-finetuned multilingual models derived from BLOOM and the xP3 task collection.

Midjourney released V4 with major improvements in realism, artistic coherence, and detail.

Harvey launched its conversational legal assistant for research, drafting, and analysis.