Releases

Databricks acquired Einblick, whose natural-language notebook technology and team strengthened AI-native data exploration.

Midjourney and Spellbrush released Niji V6.

Meta released a 70-billion-parameter Code Llama model for code generation and instruction following.

The Browser Company partnered with Perplexity to make it a search-engine option in Arc.

DeepSeek released an updated 7B coding model that later served as the initialization for DeepSeekMath.

Hugging Face and Google Cloud announced a strategic partnership integrating the Hub with Google Cloud infrastructure, Vertex AI, and TPUs.

OpenAI released text-embedding-3-small and text-embedding-3-large with improved performance and new dimension controls.

Oracle made Meta Llama 2 available as a managed model in OCI Generative AI.

Oracle made Cohere generation and embedding models available through its managed service.

OCI released dedicated clusters for fine-tuning and hosting foundation models.

Oracle made its managed generative-AI service generally available with Cohere and Meta Llama models.

Valuation implied by the funding round "ElevenLabs raises $80 million Series B".

ElevenLabs previewed a mobile reader for listening to documents and articles.

ElevenLabs launched its Voice Library marketplace for discovering and sharing voices.

ElevenLabs launched Dubbing Studio for professional video localization workflows.

ElevenLabs raised an $80 million Series B and reached unicorn status at an approximately $1.1 billion valuation.

Google Cloud and Samsung announce deployment of Gemini Pro and Imagen 2 for Galaxy AI features, while Gemini Nano powers on-device experiences.

Google Research introduces AMIE, a research AI system optimized for diagnostic medical dialogue.

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Team, later renamed ChatGPT Business, for collaborative workplace use.

OpenAI launched the GPT Store for discovering and using custom GPTs.

NVIDIA introduced production generative AI microservices for interactive digital humans.

Valuation implied by the funding round "$73.6 million Series B at $520 million valuation".

Perplexity raised $73.6 million in a Series B led by IVP at a reported $520 million valuation, with participation from NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos and others.

Valuation implied by the funding round "Anthropic closes reported $750 million Series D".

Cursor introduced an enterprise deployment and governance offering.

Cursor introduced team administration, privacy, billing, and collaboration capabilities.

Cursor introduced persistent repository and user instructions for AI behavior.

Palantir introduced PFCS Forward for tactical fires and command workflows.

Moonshot expanded Kimi from the web to mobile applications.

Scale expanded its generative-AI platform and services into custom agentic applications connected to enterprise data, controls, and workflows.

Anthropic reportedly closed a $750 million Series D led by Menlo Ventures at an approximately $18.4 billion post-money valuation.

NVIDIA market capitalisation at end of calendar year 2023, up 240% year-over-year, driven by explosive demand for AI training GPUs following the ChatGPT-led generative AI boom.

Suno launched its consumer music-generation experience for creating complete songs from prompts.

Midjourney released V6 with better prompt accuracy, text rendering, coherence, and image prompting.

Valuation implied by the funding round "Harvey raises $80 million Series B".

Harvey raised $80 million at a $715 million valuation.

Anthropic expanded commercial legal protections and improved API access and enterprise terms.

Google makes Imagen 2 available to Cloud customers through Vertex AI for enterprise image generation.

Google launches AI Studio as a browser-based workspace for prototyping prompts and building with the Gemini API.

Google releases the Gemini API through Google AI Studio and Vertex AI, giving developers access to Gemini Pro.

Microsoft releases Phi-2, a 2.7-billion-parameter small language model with strong reasoning and language performance.

Valuation implied by the funding round "€385 million Series A". Converted from EUR 2,000,000,000 at 1.0757 USD per EUR (ECB reference rate on the release date).

Mistral AI completed a €385 million Series A at a reported valuation of about €2 billion.

Mistral AI launched La Plateforme, its developer platform and API service.

Mistral AI released Mixtral 8x7B, an Apache-2.0 sparse mixture-of-experts model.

Meta introduced Audiobox, a foundation research model for generating and editing speech, voices and sound effects.

Grok became available to users through the X platform.

Meta released Llama Guard, a safeguard model for classifying conversational AI inputs and outputs.

Meta launched Purple Llama, an open trust-and-safety initiative for generative AI.

Meta launched a standalone web experience for generating images with Emu.