Releases

Microsoft releases Phi-3 Mini, a 3.8-billion-parameter model designed for capable language and reasoning on constrained devices.

Meta and World Resources Institute released global high-resolution canopy-height maps built with DINOv2.

Meta released the Llama 3-based update to its open safeguard model.

Meta released the 8B Llama 3 pretrained and instruction-tuned models.

Meta released the 70B Llama 3 pretrained and instruction-tuned models.

Hugging Face released IDEFICS2, an 8B visual-language model with stronger OCR, document, and visual reasoning capabilities.

Mistral AI released Mixtral 8x22B, a larger open sparse mixture-of-experts model.

Microsoft invests $1.5 billion in G42 and expands a strategic partnership covering Azure, responsible AI, infrastructure and emerging-market deployments.

xAI previewed its first multimodal model, adding understanding of documents, diagrams, charts, screenshots and photographs.

Meta introduced a second-generation MTIA accelerator with increased performance and memory capacity.

Google releases CodeGemma variants for code completion, code generation and instruction following.

Databricks optimized DBRX inference and made the model available through Mosaic AI Model Serving.

Oracle and Palantir partnered to make Palantir platforms available across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and combine cloud, data, and AI capabilities.

Command R+ became available first through Microsoft Azure alongside Cohere's hosted API.

Cohere introduced Command R+, its higher-capacity enterprise model for advanced RAG, multilingual generation and tools.

Replit introduced a native 7B model specialized for fixing language-server diagnostic errors.

Anthropic published research showing how long-context models can be jailbroken using many demonstrations and proposed mitigations.

Sentient's ViDAR visual detection and ranging capability joined Shield AI's product portfolio.

Shield AI acquired Sentient Vision Systems and its wide-area motion-imaging portfolio.

Security Copilot becomes generally available with integrations across Microsoft's security portfolio.

xAI announced Grok-1.5 with improved reasoning and a 128,000-token context window.

Databricks released DBRX, a 132-billion-total-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 36 billion active parameters under an open license.

Amazon invested an additional $2.75 billion in Anthropic, completing the $4 billion commitment announced in 2023.

Amazon invested an additional $2.75 billion, completing its initial $4 billion Anthropic investment commitment.

Cohere Labs made Command R weights available for research and evaluation.