Releases

Google Cloud launches Model Garden to discover, customize and deploy Google and third-party foundation models.

Google launches PaLM 2, improving multilingual, reasoning and coding capabilities across Google products and Cloud.

The release of Replit Code v1 3B established Replit's native family of open coding language models.

Replit released its open 3-billion-parameter code model for code completion.

IBM Consulting launched a center with more than 1,000 specialists to support enterprise generative-AI adoption.

IBM Consulting announced a dedicated generative-AI center and delivery practice alongside watsonx.

IBM announced watsonx as an integrated AI and data platform for enterprise foundation-model development and governance.

Meta released ImageBind, a joint embedding model spanning images, text, audio, depth, thermal and IMU data.

Anthropic published the principles used to train and guide Claude's behavior through Constitutional AI.

MosaicML released MPT-7B, Base, Instruct, Chat and StoryWriter variants under commercially usable licenses.

BigCode released StarCoder, a 15.5B-parameter code model trained on permissively licensed code from The Stack.

Midjourney released V5.1 with stronger default aesthetics and coherence.

Databricks agreed to acquire data-governance company Okera to strengthen governance and AI security capabilities.

Baidu introduced ERNIE 3.5 as the new foundation model powering ERNIE Bot.

Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample and Timothée Lacroix founded Mistral AI in Paris to build efficient frontier AI models with an open-weight strategy.

ElevenLabs released its first multilingual speech-synthesis model.

Harvey raised a $21 million Series A led by Sequoia with participation from the OpenAI Startup Fund and others.

Scale partnered with Anthropic to help enterprises customize and deploy generative-AI applications powered by Claude.

Anthropic partnered with Scale AI to help enterprises deploy and customize generative AI applications powered by Claude.

Hugging Face launched HuggingChat, an open-source conversational interface initially powered by an OpenAssistant model.

CoreWeave closed a primary Series B funding round led by Magnetar Capital to expand its GPU cloud for generative AI.

Google combines the DeepMind and Google Brain teams into a single unit, Google DeepMind, led by Demis Hassabis.

Meta released DINOv2, a self-supervised vision foundation model and pretrained visual features.

Amazon introduced its first text embedding foundation model through the Bedrock preview.

AWS made its generative-AI coding assistant generally available, including a free individual tier and reference tracking.

AWS announced a managed service for building generative-AI applications with foundation models from Amazon and third parties.

AWS introduced Amazon Titan, its family of text generation and embedding foundation models available through Bedrock.

Databricks released Dolly 2.0 with commercial-use weights and the human-generated databricks-dolly-15k instruction dataset.

Palantir announced AIP, connecting large language models and AI to private enterprise data, logic, and operations.

CoreWeave publicly detailed its managed inference service for securely serving AI models at scale.

Meta released SAM, its promptable image-segmentation model, together with model weights and the SA-1B dataset.

Midjourney and Spellbrush released Niji V5 for anime and illustrative generation.

Baidu launched an ERNIE-powered enterprise coding assistant.

Anthropic launched an early Claude integration for Slack workspaces.

Perplexity launched its native conversational answer-engine application for iPhone and iPad.

Perplexity raised $25.6 million in a Series A led by New Enterprise Associates.

Microsoft introduces Security Copilot, a generative-AI assistant for security investigation, threat intelligence and response.

Replit launched integrated conversational coding through Ghostwriter Chat.

Baidu AI Cloud launched Qianfan as an enterprise foundation-model and application-development platform.

Databricks released Dolly, a six-billion-parameter instruction-following model that could be trained inexpensively on one machine.

OpenAI introduced plugins connecting ChatGPT to third-party applications and fresh information.

GitHub introduces Copilot X, including conversational Copilot Chat experiences across editors, pull requests and command-line workflows.

Oracle expanded bare-metal GPU instances and high-performance networking for large AI training workloads.

CoreWeave made large-scale NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU infrastructure available for generative-AI training and inference workloads.

Microsoft launches Bing Image Creator, integrating generative image creation into Bing chat and the Edge sidebar.

Google begins opening Bard access in the United States and United Kingdom as an early generative-AI experiment.

NVIDIA launched DGX Cloud, providing browser-based access to managed AI supercomputing infrastructure.

NVIDIA announced broad H100 availability through leading cloud and server providers as generative AI demand surged.

NVIDIA introduced cloud services for enterprises to build custom language and visual generative AI models.

Runway released Gen-2 for text-to-video and image-to-video generation.

Baidu unveiled its generative conversational assistant, Wenxin Yiyan/ERNIE Bot.

Microsoft introduces Microsoft 365 Copilot and Business Chat, combining large language models with Microsoft Graph and productivity applications.

Midjourney released V5 with improved photorealism and prompt understanding.

Google Cloud announces generative AI capabilities in Vertex AI and Generative AI App Builder for enterprise customers.

Anthropic made Claude available through an API and chat interface in its developer console.

Anthropic introduced Claude and Claude Instant more broadly after a closed alpha with partners.

OpenAI released GPT-4, a multimodal large model accepting image and text inputs and producing text outputs.

MosaicML released MosaicBERT, an optimized BERT architecture designed to pretrain high-quality models at much lower cost.

Anthropic described its strategy for building, measuring, and deploying capable AI systems while preparing for potentially transformative impacts.

Microsoft introduces Dynamics 365 Copilot across sales, service, marketing, supply chain and business workflows.

Anysphere launched Cursor, an AI-native editor based on the VS Code ecosystem with codebase-aware chat and editing.

Moonshot AI was founded in Beijing by Yang Zhilin, Zhou Xinyu and Wu Yuxin to develop frontier foundation models.

Cohere established Command as its principal family of enterprise generative language models.

Cohere released Command Light as a lower-latency generation option for enterprise text workloads.

Cohere introduced the Command generation family for enterprise summarization, conversation and text workflows.

OpenAI made the Whisper speech-to-text model available through its API.

OpenAI released the Chat Completions API with gpt-3.5-turbo for developers.

Microsoft Research introduces Kosmos-1, a multimodal large language model capable of perceiving visual inputs and following language instructions.

Meta released the first LLaMA model family for approved research use, spanning 7B to 65B parameters.

AWS and Hugging Face announced a strategic collaboration to make generative AI more accessible and optimize Transformers training and deployment on AWS infrastructure.

Microsoft releases Semantic Kernel to help developers integrate language models, plugins, memory and planning into applications.

Microsoft launches a new AI-powered Bing and Edge with conversational search, synthesized answers and content generation.

Gen-1 established Runway's Gen family of generative video models.

Runway released Gen-1 for text- and image-guided video transformation.

Google announces Bard, a LaMDA-powered conversational AI service, for trusted testers ahead of public access.

Google Cloud and Anthropic announce a strategic partnership covering cloud infrastructure, AI accelerators and responsible development of large AI systems.

Anthropic selected Google Cloud as a cloud partner for training and deploying its AI systems, alongside a strategic investment relationship.

ElevenLabs introduced high-fidelity voice cloning for authorized professional use.

OpenAI launched the $20-per-month ChatGPT Plus subscription in the United States.

Google Research introduces MusicLM, a hierarchical text-to-music generation model for high-fidelity audio.

CoreWeave acquired Conductor Technologies and its cloud task-management and burst-rendering platform, extending the cloud into end-to-end VFX and animation workflows.

Microsoft announces a multiyear, multibillion-dollar extension of its OpenAI partnership covering supercomputing, model deployment and Azure commercialization.

OpenAI and Microsoft announced a multiyear, multibillion-dollar extension of their partnership, including Azure supercomputing investment and exclusive cloud-provider status.

Microsoft makes Azure OpenAI Service generally available with enterprise access to OpenAI models through Azure.

The release of Eleven v1 established ElevenLabs' proprietary audio-model family.

ElevenLabs launched its browser-based text-to-speech product for expressive synthetic speech.

ElevenLabs launched its first text-to-speech model and opened the platform in beta.

Scale announced a restructuring that reduced its employee workforce by roughly 20 percent after expanding too quickly during the prior growth cycle.

Replit expanded integrated storage and application database capabilities.

Replit expanded managed deployment and application hosting.

Shield AI demonstrated autonomous air-combat maneuvering and dogfighting capabilities.

Cursor introduced predictive Tab completion and next-action editing.

Cursor introduced repository-aware conversational coding.

Cursor introduced natural-language inline code editing.

Palantir introduced defense-focused AIP capabilities for mission workflows.

AIP Automations became available for event-driven operational and AI workflows.

AIP Assist became part of Palantir's generative-AI workflow suite.

AIP Logic became available for building governed AI functions and agentic workflows.

Cohere added governed connectors to ground generative applications in enterprise repositories and data systems.

Cohere introduced a conversational Chat API that evolved to support RAG, citations, tools and structured outputs.