Releases

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.