Releases

Oracle had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $389.4 billion as of Aug 31, 2024 (NYSE: ORCL), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

The August Command R+ release delivered roughly 50% higher throughput and 25% lower latency with the same hardware footprint.

Cohere updated Command R with improved tool decisions, instruction following, structured-data analysis and robustness.

Amazon hired Covariant's founders and a portion of its team and received a non-exclusive license to its robotic foundation models.

Perplexity partnered with Comcast to provide eligible Xfinity Rewards members a year of Perplexity Pro.

CoreWeave publicly introduced Mission Control as its managed workflow for validating hardware, monitoring cluster health, and maintaining reliable AI infrastructure.

CoreWeave launched NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU instances and said it was the first cloud provider to bring the H200 to market.

Harvey partnered with Icertis to bring generative AI into enterprise contract workflows.

IBM unveiled Telum II with upgraded on-chip AI acceleration for next-generation mainframes.

NVIDIA and partners launched reusable reference workflows for enterprise generative AI agents.

Anthropic made Artifacts generally available across Claude plans and added publishing and remixing capabilities.

Midjourney opened its web creation platform to all users.

Cursor raised $60 million in Series A financing from Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital, OpenAI, and other technology leaders at a reported $400 million valuation.

Hugging Face released IDEFICS3, a more efficient multimodal architecture that became the basis for the SmolVLM family.

Microsoft releases Phi-3.5 Vision for multimodal image and text understanding.

Microsoft releases Phi-3.5 MoE, a mixture-of-experts small language model.

Microsoft releases Phi-3.5 Mini with multilingual support and a long context window.

Midjourney launched its unified web editing platform for generative image modification.

Midjourney launched a unified editor for reframe, repaint, vary region, pan, and zoom.

Runway released a faster and lower-cost Gen-3 Alpha Turbo variant.

DeepSeek released an improved formal theorem prover using reinforcement learning and search.

Google begins broad availability of Imagen 3 through ImageFX and later expands access through Gemini and Vertex AI.

Anthropic launched prompt caching to reduce latency and cost for repeated long-context prompts.

xAI released Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini in beta on X and announced enterprise API availability.

Microsoft and Palantir partnered to deliver secure cloud, analytics, and AI capabilities to U.S. defense and intelligence agencies.

Hugging Face acquired XetHub to bring content-defined chunking, deduplication, and high-performance storage to large AI repositories.

Mistral AI expanded La Plateforme with model customization and fine-tuning capabilities.

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.