Releases

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.

Palantir began using intensive AIP Bootcamps to move customers rapidly from use case to working AI deployment.

Hugging Face launched a daily research-paper discovery feed connected to community profiles, models, datasets, and discussions.

Perplexity introduced its paid Pro subscription with expanded searches and access to advanced models.

NVIDIA announced DGX GH200, connecting 256 Grace Hopper Superchips into a large shared-memory AI system.

Hugging Face launched an open and reproducible benchmark leaderboard for comparing community language models.

Perplexity introduced Copilot, a guided multi-step research mode later renamed Pro Search.

Perplexity launched its native Android application.

Baidu began transforming Wenku into an ERNIE-powered document and creativity platform.

Microsoft announces a common plugin model spanning ChatGPT, Bing, Dynamics 365 Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Anthropic raised $450 million led by Spark Capital to scale reliable AI products and safety research.

AWS launched Inferentia2-powered EC2 instances for large-scale generative-AI inference.

Meta released MMS speech-recognition and synthesis models covering more than 1,100 languages.

Meta unveiled its first in-house AI inference accelerator, designed initially for recommendation workloads.

Anthropic and Zoom announced a partnership to use Claude in Zoom products, alongside an investment from Zoom Ventures.

Anthropic expanded Claude's API context window from 9K to 100K tokens.

Scale launched EGP as a model-agnostic enterprise platform for deploying secure generative-AI applications with proprietary data, fine-tuning, evaluation, and red teaming.

Scale launched Donovan, a secure decision-support platform using large language models, retrieval, and mission data for government and defense users.

Scale deployed Donovan for the U.S. Army XVIII Airborne Corps, describing it as the first large-language-model platform deployed on a classified network for the Corps.