Releases

Amazon updated its image model with image conditioning, subject consistency and background-removal capabilities.

Moonshot raised a reported $300 million round that valued the company at $3.3 billion.

DeepSeek introduced disk-based context caching to reduce repeated-token costs.

Google enters a non-exclusive technology licensing agreement with Character.AI and brings co-founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, plus members of their research team, into Google DeepMind.

Scale released MultiChallenge to measure model performance on realistic multi-turn conversation problems involving memory, instruction retention, editing, and self-consistency.

Perplexity partnered with Uber to offer eligible Uber One members a complimentary year of Perplexity Pro.

GitHub launches Models in beta, letting developers compare and experiment with multiple AI models inside GitHub.

Google releases ShieldGemma, open safety classifiers built on Gemma 2 for filtering model inputs and outputs.

Midjourney released V6.1 with improved details, image quality, speed, text, and personalization.

Perplexity launched a publisher program with revenue sharing, API access and technology support.

Meta launched AI Studio for creating, sharing and discovering custom AI characters.

Meta released SAM 2 for promptable object segmentation in both images and video.

The API gained JSON mode, function calling, chat-prefix completion and fill-in-the-middle completion.

OpenAI launched a limited prototype of SearchGPT with web answers and linked sources.

DeepSeek upgraded the deepseek-coder API to the July Coder V2 checkpoint.

Mistral AI released Mistral Large 2, a 123B flagship model with a 128K context window and improved multilingual and coding performance.

Harvey raised $100 million at a $1.5 billion valuation in a GV-led Series C.

AWS made its generative-AI clinical documentation service generally available.

Meta released a classifier for detecting prompt injection and jailbreak attempts.

Meta released a multilingual Llama 3.1-based safeguard model.

Meta released its 405B-parameter open-weights frontier model.

Meta released Llama 3.1 70B with a 128K context window and multilingual support.

Meta released Llama 3.1 8B with a 128K context window and multilingual support.

NVIDIA launched AI Foundry with NeMo, DGX Cloud and NIM services for building and deploying customized Llama 3.1 models.

Harvey and Voyage developed a custom embeddings model for legal retrieval.

PSP Investments led a $500 million round with Cisco, Fujitsu, AMD Ventures, EDC, NVIDIA and Salesforce Ventures participating.

ElevenLabs released Turbo v2.5 with broader language support and low latency.

CoreWeave announced NVIDIA HGX B200 and GB200 NVL72 Blackwell cluster configurations connected with NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand.

Mistral AI and NVIDIA jointly released Mistral NeMo, a 12B multilingual open model with a 128K context window.

OpenAI released GPT-4o mini as a lower-cost small multimodal model.

Microsoft Designer exits preview as a standalone app and expands generative design capabilities across Microsoft products.

Anthropic and Menlo Ventures launched a $100 million fund to support early-stage startups building with Anthropic technology.

Hugging Face released compact fully open language models at 135M, 360M, and 1.7B parameter scales.

Mistral AI released Codestral Mamba, an open code model using the Mamba 2 architecture.

Mistral AI released Mathstral 7B, an open model specialized for mathematical reasoning.

Anthropic launched the native Claude application for Android.

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.

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.

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

Anthropic introduced Artifacts, a side-by-side workspace for creating and iterating on Claude-generated content.

Anthropic released Claude 3.5 Sonnet with stronger reasoning, coding, writing, and vision performance.

Midjourney expanded shared creation rooms and room visibility on the web.

The first Copilot+ PCs become generally available from Microsoft and hardware partners.

Runway released Gen-3 Alpha with improved fidelity, motion, consistency, and controls.

DeepSeek released 16B and 236B mixture-of-experts coding models with 128K context.

DeepSeek upgraded its coding API to the Coder V2 generation.

Microsoft releases Florence-2, a unified prompt-based vision model for captioning, grounding, detection and segmentation.

Hugging Face acquired Argilla, an open-source platform for human and synthetic data curation and model feedback.

Microsoft changes Recall from broad Copilot+ PC availability to a Windows Insider preview while strengthening security and privacy protections.

Databricks introduced Apps for building and deploying secure data and AI applications directly on the platform.

Databricks introduced AI/BI, pairing AI-assisted dashboards with Genie conversational analytics built on a compound AI system.

Databricks introduced MLflow Tracing for end-to-end observability and debugging of generative-AI applications and agents.

Databricks launched a framework for authoring, evaluating, deploying and monitoring production-quality compound AI systems.

Oracle and Google Cloud announced Database@Google Cloud and integration paths to Vertex AI and Gemini.

Mistral AI raised €600 million in equity and debt at a reported €5.8 billion valuation.

OpenAI and Apple announced integration of ChatGPT into iOS, iPadOS, and macOS experiences.

Forbes alleged that Perplexity had reproduced reporting without adequate attribution, beginning a broader public dispute over publisher content use.

Mistral AI introduced self-service fine-tuning through La Plateforme and released customization tooling.

Databricks agreed to acquire Tabular, founded by the creators of Apache Iceberg, to advance interoperability between Delta Lake and Iceberg.

Matt Garman succeeded Adam Selipsky as chief executive officer of Amazon Web Services.

Hugging Face released FineWeb-Edu, an educationally filtered subset that showed strong gains for small-model pretraining.

NVIDIA made ACE generative AI microservices generally available for cloud-based digital-human applications.

Harvey launched a structured workflow for legal due diligence.

ElevenLabs released Turbo v2 for lower-latency English speech synthesis.

ElevenLabs expanded Studio for long-form narration, publishing, and audiobook workflows.

Oracle made its voice-first clinical assistant available for healthcare workflows.

DeepSeek published its first open theorem-proving model for Lean 4.

DeepSeek introduced its formal theorem-proving model research line.

ElevenLabs released its generative sound-effects model.

ElevenLabs launched text-to-sound-effects generation.

Suno released v3.5 with longer and higher-quality music generation.

Hugging Face released FineWeb, a 15-trillion-token filtered and deduplicated English web dataset for language-model pretraining.

Perplexity launched Pages for turning research into structured, visually formatted and shareable articles.

Anthropic made tool use generally available across the Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Vertex AI.

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Edu for universities, with enterprise-grade controls and access to GPT-4o.

Scale made its model-evaluation platform generally available for model developers, enterprises, and public-sector organizations.

Scale launched expert-evaluated leaderboards for coding, instruction following, mathematics, and multilinguality using private, contamination-resistant prompt sets.

Mistral AI released Codestral, its first generative model specialized for code, under the Mistral AI Non-Production License.

xAI raised $6 billion from investors including Valor Equity Partners, Vy Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital and Fidelity; Reuters reported a $24 billion post-money valuation.

Cohere Labs released the open Aya 23 35B multilingual model spanning 23 languages.

Cohere Labs released the open Aya 23 8B multilingual model spanning 23 languages.