Releases

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.