Releases

DeepSeek merged its general and coding capabilities into V2.5 and published weights.

Mosaic AI Agent Framework and Agent Evaluation entered public preview with integrated deployment, evaluation, tracing and governance.

Anthropic launched Claude for Enterprise with expanded context, security, administration, and GitHub integration.

xAI brought its Memphis Colossus training cluster online with 100,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs after a 122-day build.

Harvey released a major second-generation Assistant experience.

Scale and research collaborators introduced EnigmaEval, a multimodal reasoning benchmark built from novel puzzle-competition problems.

Oracle had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $389.4 billion as of Aug 31, 2024 (NYSE: ORCL), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

The August Command R+ release delivered roughly 50% higher throughput and 25% lower latency with the same hardware footprint.

Cohere updated Command R with improved tool decisions, instruction following, structured-data analysis and robustness.

Amazon hired Covariant's founders and a portion of its team and received a non-exclusive license to its robotic foundation models.

Perplexity partnered with Comcast to provide eligible Xfinity Rewards members a year of Perplexity Pro.

CoreWeave publicly introduced Mission Control as its managed workflow for validating hardware, monitoring cluster health, and maintaining reliable AI infrastructure.

CoreWeave launched NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU instances and said it was the first cloud provider to bring the H200 to market.

Harvey partnered with Icertis to bring generative AI into enterprise contract workflows.

IBM unveiled Telum II with upgraded on-chip AI acceleration for next-generation mainframes.

NVIDIA and partners launched reusable reference workflows for enterprise generative AI agents.

Anthropic made Artifacts generally available across Claude plans and added publishing and remixing capabilities.

Midjourney opened its web creation platform to all users.

Cursor raised $60 million in Series A financing from Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital, OpenAI, and other technology leaders at a reported $400 million valuation.

Hugging Face released IDEFICS3, a more efficient multimodal architecture that became the basis for the SmolVLM family.

Microsoft releases Phi-3.5 Vision for multimodal image and text understanding.

Microsoft releases Phi-3.5 MoE, a mixture-of-experts small language model.

Microsoft releases Phi-3.5 Mini with multilingual support and a long context window.

Midjourney launched its unified web editing platform for generative image modification.

Midjourney launched a unified editor for reframe, repaint, vary region, pan, and zoom.