Releases

AWS announced real-time generative-AI assistance for contact-center agents.

AWS announced configurable safeguards for foundation-model inputs and outputs.

AWS introduced an assistant for developing on AWS, troubleshooting and transforming application code.

AWS announced a new family of generative-AI assistants for work and software development.

AWS introduced an enterprise assistant that answers questions and completes tasks using company data.

AWS introduced automatic and human evaluation workflows for comparing foundation models.

Baidu fully opened ERNIE APIs to enterprise customers through AI Cloud.

Anthropic released Claude 2.1 with a 200K-token context window, lower hallucination rates, system prompts, and beta tool use.

Microsoft Research releases Orca 2 in 7B and 13B sizes, training smaller models to use different reasoning strategies.

OpenAI's board announced that Sam Altman would depart as CEO and Mira Murati would serve as interim CEO.

AWS launched a free public playground for building shareable generative-AI applications with Amazon Bedrock.

Meta published Emu Edit for instruction-based image editing with precise task control.

Meta published Emu Video, a factorized text-to-video generation method.

Google DeepMind and YouTube introduce Lyria alongside experimental music-generation tools Dream Track and Music AI Tools.

Databricks introduced a data intelligence engine that learns enterprise semantics and powers context-aware assistance and optimization.

xAI began early API access for Grok developers ahead of the later public beta.

Microsoft introduces Maia 100, its first custom AI accelerator for Azure training and inference workloads.

Microsoft introduces Copilot for Azure to help customers design, operate and troubleshoot cloud infrastructure using natural language.

Microsoft launches Copilot Studio as the low-code platform for customizing Microsoft Copilot and building standalone copilots.

Microsoft renames Bing Chat and Bing Chat Enterprise to Microsoft Copilot and expands commercial data protection.

Google DeepMind publishes GraphCast, a machine-learning model for fast, accurate medium-range global weather forecasts.

CoreWeave announced plans to offer NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip instances in the first quarter of 2024 and deploy NVIDIA HGX H200 systems.

NVIDIA introduced H200, adding HBM3e memory to the Hopper platform for generative AI and HPC.

Scale launched its Safety, Evaluations, and Alignment Lab to build standardized frontier-model benchmarks, evaluation products, and red-team methods.

xAI launched PromptIDE for prompt engineering and interpretability research on Grok-1.