Releases

IBM launched its open lakehouse data store optimized for governed analytics and AI workloads.

IBM began general availability of its foundation-model and machine-learning development studio.

Anthropic launched a public beta of its Claude web chat experience in the United States and United Kingdom.

Anthropic released Claude 2 with improved reasoning, coding, safety, and long-context capabilities.

Perplexity released an official Chrome extension that could set Perplexity as the browser's default search engine.

Runway raised a $141 million financing extension at a reported $1.5 billion valuation.

MLflow AI Gateway provided a unified interface for routing requests to multiple commercial and open model providers.

Databricks introduced automated and human evaluation tooling for assessing generative-AI quality on enterprise data.

Databricks announced managed vector search integrated with the lakehouse for retrieval-augmented generation and semantic search.

Databricks introduced an AI assistant for generating, explaining and repairing SQL and Python with organizational context.

Databricks launched Lakehouse AI, later branded Mosaic AI, as an integrated platform for building generative-AI applications on enterprise data.

Midjourney released V5.2 with improved aesthetics, shorter prompts, and Zoom Out.

MosaicML released the MPT-30B base, instruct and chat models with commercial-use terms.

ElevenLabs expanded its generative voice tools with Voice Design.

ElevenLabs launched a classifier for detecting audio generated by its models.

ElevenLabs raised a $19 million Series A led by Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, and Andreessen Horowitz.

Microsoft Research introduces Phi-1, showing that curated textbook-quality data can produce strong code and reasoning performance in a compact model.

Microsoft Research introduces Kosmos-2, linking generated language to object regions in images through grounding.

Meta introduced Voicebox, a generative speech model capable of editing, sampling and cross-lingual speech generation.

CoreWeave released Tensorizer, an open-source tensor serialization tool that streams models from S3, HTTP, and file storage to reduce PyTorch model startup time.

Oracle announced a managed generative-AI service developed with Cohere for enterprise use cases.

Oracle selected Cohere models and OCI infrastructure to deliver native generative-AI services across Oracle applications.

Mistral AI raised a €105 million seed round, one of Europe's largest seed financings, at a reported valuation of roughly €240 million.

Cohere raised $270 million from Inovia, Oracle, NVIDIA, Salesforce and other investors to scale enterprise generative AI.

Microsoft Research introduces Orca, a 13-billion-parameter model trained from rich explanation traces produced by larger models.