Releases

Amazon released a multimodal embedding model mapping text and images into a shared space.

Google DeepMind reports that GNoME identified 2.2 million new crystal structures, including hundreds of thousands of stable candidates.

OpenAI announced Sam Altman's return as CEO and an initial board chaired by Bret Taylor.

AWS and NVIDIA expanded their partnership around GPU infrastructure, DGX Cloud, NVIDIA software and future AI supercomputing.

AWS announced its second-generation AI training accelerator with substantially higher performance.

AWS introduced resilient infrastructure for training large foundation models across thousands of accelerators.

AWS announced real-time generative-AI assistance for contact-center agents.

AWS announced configurable safeguards for foundation-model inputs and outputs.

AWS introduced an assistant for developing on AWS, troubleshooting and transforming application code.

AWS announced a new family of generative-AI assistants for work and software development.

AWS introduced an enterprise assistant that answers questions and completes tasks using company data.

AWS introduced automatic and human evaluation workflows for comparing foundation models.

Baidu fully opened ERNIE APIs to enterprise customers through AI Cloud.

Anthropic released Claude 2.1 with a 200K-token context window, lower hallucination rates, system prompts, and beta tool use.

Microsoft Research releases Orca 2 in 7B and 13B sizes, training smaller models to use different reasoning strategies.

OpenAI's board announced that Sam Altman would depart as CEO and Mira Murati would serve as interim CEO.

AWS launched a free public playground for building shareable generative-AI applications with Amazon Bedrock.

Meta published Emu Edit for instruction-based image editing with precise task control.

Meta published Emu Video, a factorized text-to-video generation method.

Google DeepMind and YouTube introduce Lyria alongside experimental music-generation tools Dream Track and Music AI Tools.

Databricks introduced a data intelligence engine that learns enterprise semantics and powers context-aware assistance and optimization.

xAI began early API access for Grok developers ahead of the later public beta.

Microsoft introduces Maia 100, its first custom AI accelerator for Azure training and inference workloads.

Microsoft introduces Copilot for Azure to help customers design, operate and troubleshoot cloud infrastructure using natural language.

Microsoft launches Copilot Studio as the low-code platform for customizing Microsoft Copilot and building standalone copilots.