Releases

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.

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.