Releases

Amazon broadly launched its generative-AI shopping assistant in the United States after an earlier beta.

AWS introduced a visual workflow builder for generative-AI applications.

AWS introduced prompt creation, versioning, testing and sharing capabilities.

Skild AI raised a $300 million Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Coatue, SoftBank Group and Bezos Expeditions.

Skild AI emerged from stealth and described its unified robotics foundation model designed to generalize across tasks and robot hardware.

Perplexity collaborated with Amazon Web Services to launch and scale Enterprise Pro.

Perplexity upgraded Pro Search for more advanced problem-solving, multi-step reasoning and research.

Meta introduced a research pipeline for generating high-quality 3D assets with text and texture control.

ElevenLabs launched Voice Isolator for separating speech from background audio.

Baidu released a faster and more capable version of ERNIE 4.0.

Baidu upgraded its AI coding assistant and repositioned it for enterprise and developer workflows.

DeepSeek updated its chat model with stronger code, math, reasoning and role-play performance.

Amazon hired Adept cofounder David Luan and members of the team while licensing Adept's agent technology.

Perplexity completed a reported financing round of roughly $250 million at a $3 billion valuation, including strategic backing from SoftBank.

Google releases Gemma 2, led by a 27B model with improved performance and efficiency.

Oracle expanded HeatWave from analytics and AutoML into an integrated generative-AI platform.

Oracle released automated in-database vector creation, storage and retrieval for HeatWave.

Oracle released in-database LLMs, automated vector storage and natural-language chat in HeatWave.

Hugging Face refreshed the Open LLM Leaderboard with a harder, contamination-resistant suite and new scoring methodology.

Anthropic expanded Claude availability for US government and intelligence-community customers through AWS.

EvolutionaryScale, founded by former Meta researchers, released ESM-3, a generative protein model originating from Meta's ESM program.

Anthropic launched Projects for organizing chats, knowledge, and collaboration around sustained work.

Major record labels filed copyright litigation concerning Suno's training practices.

Synthesia introduced a redesigned enterprise video communications platform with personal avatars, AI screen recording, knowledge-to-video tools, and interactive-video groundwork.

Investigations alleged that Perplexity accessed publisher content despite robots.txt restrictions; Perplexity disputed aspects of the reporting.