Releases

Perplexity launched Pages for turning research into structured, visually formatted and shareable articles.

Anthropic made tool use generally available across the Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Vertex AI.

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Edu for universities, with enterprise-grade controls and access to GPT-4o.

Scale made its model-evaluation platform generally available for model developers, enterprises, and public-sector organizations.

Scale launched expert-evaluated leaderboards for coding, instruction following, mathematics, and multilinguality using private, contamination-resistant prompt sets.

Mistral AI released Codestral, its first generative model specialized for code, under the Mistral AI Non-Production License.

xAI raised $6 billion from investors including Valor Equity Partners, Vy Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital and Fidelity; Reuters reported a $24 billion post-money valuation.

Cohere Labs released the open Aya 23 35B multilingual model spanning 23 languages.

Cohere Labs released the open Aya 23 8B multilingual model spanning 23 languages.

Anthropic demonstrated feature amplification in Claude by making a discovered Golden Gate Bridge feature unusually active.

Harvey partnered with Mistral AI to develop and deploy legal AI models.

Suno raised $125 million in funding at a reported $500 million valuation.

IBM released Granite Code models from 3B to 34B parameters under a permissive open-source license.

Scale closed a $1 billion primary-and-secondary financing led by Accel at a $13.8 billion valuation.

Microsoft and Hugging Face expanded their collaboration around open models, Azure AI, and enterprise deployment experiences.

Microsoft introduces Phi-3 Vision, a 4.2-billion-parameter multimodal model for image, chart, graph and table reasoning.

Microsoft expands Phi-3 with 7B Small and 14B Medium open models.

Microsoft releases Phi-3 Medium for higher-capability small-model workloads.

Anthropic appointed Krishna Rao as Chief Financial Officer.

Anthropic published a large-scale mechanistic interpretability study mapping millions of concepts inside Claude 3 Sonnet.

Hugging Face launched LeRobot to bring open models, datasets, policies, and reproducible tooling to real-world robotics.

Microsoft Research introduces Aurora, a foundation model for weather and atmospheric forecasting across multiple environmental domains.

Microsoft introduces Phi Silica, an on-device small language model optimized for Windows neural processing units.

Microsoft announces Recall, an on-device searchable visual history for Copilot+ PCs with user privacy controls.

Microsoft introduces Copilot+ PCs with neural processing units and a new generation of on-device AI experiences.

DeepSeek upgraded deepseek-chat with improved instruction following, JSON output and RAG performance.

CoreWeave signed a $7.5 billion debt facility led by Blackstone and Magnetar to expand its contracted high-performance compute fleet.

Meta introduced an early-fusion multimodal foundation model capable of generating and reasoning over interleaved text and images.

Baidu introduced its Autonomous Driving Foundation Model for Level 4 driving systems.

Grok-1.5 rolled out to Grok users on X.

Anthropic appointed Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger as Chief Product Officer.

Google launches AI Overviews in the United States, integrating generative summaries and supporting web links into Search.

Google introduces Imagen 3 with improved photorealism, prompt understanding and text rendering.

Google announces Trillium, its sixth-generation TPU, with major gains in compute performance and energy efficiency.

Google DeepMind demonstrates Project Astra, a real-time multimodal assistant prototype that perceives and reasons across continuous context.

Google DeepMind introduces Veo, a high-definition generative video model with cinematic controls.

Google releases PaliGemma, an open vision-language model for image-text tasks.

Google expands Gemini 1.5 Pro to a two-million-token context window in private preview.

Google introduces Gemini 1.5 Flash, a fast and efficient multimodal model with a one-million-token context window.

Anthropic expanded Claude.ai and its mobile app to users and businesses across Europe.

OpenAI released GPT-4o, an omni model designed for real-time reasoning across audio, vision, and text.

CoreWeave established its European headquarters in London and announced a $1.25 billion regional infrastructure investment plan.

Google DeepMind launches AlphaFold Server for free research access to AlphaFold 3 predictions.

Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs introduce AlphaFold 3 for predicting structures and interactions across biomolecules.

Red Hat expanded OpenShift AI as the hybrid-cloud operating layer for model development and serving.

Red Hat and IBM introduced InstructLab for community-driven model skills and alignment.

Red Hat introduced RHEL AI as a foundation-model platform for developing, testing and running open models.

DeepSeek opened an OpenAI-compatible API for its chat and coding models.

Oracle announced a generative coding assistant optimized for Java, SQL and OCI development.

DeepSeek published DeepSeek-V2 base and chat weights with 128K context.