Releases

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

Valuation implied by the funding round "Cohere raises $125M Series B".

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.

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.

Hugging Face acquired Gradio, bringing its open-source interface framework and team into the company while keeping the project open source.

Palantir unveiled MetaConstellation, a satellite-tasking and geospatial intelligence capability that coordinates space-based data with AI.

AWS introduced a no-code visual interface for generating machine-learning predictions.

Microsoft releases DeBERTa V3 with replaced-token detection and gradient-disentangled embedding sharing.

Oracle released managed time-series forecasting for business and operational signals.

Oracle released managed multivariate time-series anomaly detection.

Oracle released managed image analysis, object detection and custom vision models.

Oracle released a managed natural-language processing API for classification, entity extraction and sentiment.

Oracle released managed automatic speech recognition and transcription.

Oracle introduced a portfolio of managed AI APIs spanning language, speech, vision, anomaly detection and forecasting.

CoreWeave raised $50 million from Magnetar Capital to scale its specialized NVIDIA GPU cloud infrastructure.

Scale acquired Berlin-based SiaSearch and folded its petabyte-scale sensor-data search technology and team into Scale Nucleus.

Microsoft introduces Azure OpenAI Service, providing managed access to OpenAI models through Azure's enterprise cloud controls.

Facebook renamed the parent company Meta Platforms to reflect its long-term focus on building the metaverse.

Facebook AI and university partners introduced Ego4D, a large egocentric video dataset and benchmark suite.

Scale moved Rapid into general availability for fast labeling experiments without data minimums.

Hugging Face launched Spaces with native Gradio support, allowing community members to host interactive machine-learning demos on the Hub.

Valuation implied by the funding round "Series H closes at $38 billion valuation".

Databricks closed a $1.6 billion Series H with participation from AWS, CapitalG and Microsoft at a $38 billion post-money valuation.

Cohere's hosted API made semantic text representations available to enterprise developers.

Cohere provided a browser playground for testing its hosted language models and generation settings.

Cohere's initial commercial platform included text classification for enterprise NLP workflows.

Index Ventures led Cohere's $40 million Series A, with Section 32, Radical Ventures and AI researchers participating.

Cohere made its hosted language-model platform available to businesses alongside its Series A financing.

Hugging Face launched Optimum to optimize Transformers models for specialized hardware and inference runtimes.

NVIDIA made its AI Enterprise software suite generally available.

The Telum announcement established a new generation of IBM infrastructure with integrated AI acceleration.