Releases

DeepSeek introduced the Janus family for unified multimodal understanding and generation.

Meta released research on a multimodal language model that freely mixes text and speech.

Perplexity launched Spaces and Internal Knowledge Search for organizing research and searching company files alongside the web.

Suno launched Scenes for creating soundtracks from photos and videos.

Mistral AI launched the Ministral 3B and 8B models for edge, on-device and local use.

Perplexity introduced dedicated finance capabilities for stocks, company earnings and market research.

Anthropic updated its Responsible Scaling Policy with revised capability thresholds, safety-case processes, and governance measures.

CoreWeave secured a $650 million revolving credit facility from a syndicate of major banks to support global expansion.

Amazon introduced generative-AI shopping guides that summarize category information and organize product recommendations.

Anthropic launched asynchronous batch processing for large volumes of Claude API requests.

Meta introduced foundation models for video generation, personalized video, editing and synchronized audio.

OpenAI introduced Canvas, a collaborative interface for writing and coding projects in ChatGPT.

OpenAI closed a $6.6 billion funding round at a $157 billion post-money valuation.

The LeRobot community introduced the SO-100, a low-cost open robot arm design for data collection and imitation learning.

OpenAI launched the Realtime API public beta for low-latency multimodal experiences.

Baidu had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $36.9 billion as of Sep 30, 2024 (NASDAQ: BIDU), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

IBM had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $203.6 billion as of Sep 30, 2024 (NYSE: IBM), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Palantir had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $83.3 billion as of Sep 30, 2024 (NASDAQ: PLTR), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Meta had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $1.448 trillion as of Sep 30, 2024 (NASDAQ: META), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Amazon had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $1.956 trillion as of Sep 30, 2024 (NASDAQ: AMZN), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Alphabet had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $2.049 trillion as of Sep 30, 2024 (NASDAQ: GOOGL), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Microsoft had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $3.198 trillion as of Sep 30, 2024 (NASDAQ: MSFT), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Meta published improved SAM 2.1 checkpoints and developer tooling.

Oracle released a managed retrieval-augmented generation and enterprise-agent service.

Meta released a 90B multimodal model for image understanding.

Meta released an 11B multimodal model for image understanding.

Meta released a compact 1B text model for on-device use.

Meta released a compact 3B text model for on-device use.

OpenAI began expanding ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode with more natural real-time audio conversations.

Palantir expanded its Maven Smart System work with the U.S. government under a five-year agreement with a potential value up to $100 million.

Anthropic introduced Contextual Retrieval, combining contextual embeddings and BM25 to improve retrieval-augmented generation.

Modal added secure tunnels and execution improvements for sandbox workloads.

Modal added improved object-storage bucket mounting for data-intensive jobs.

Modal expanded secret management for applications and integrations.

Modal expanded queue-based communication between serverless functions.

Modal expanded its persistent key-value storage capabilities.

Modal improved persistent volume performance and reliability.

Modal expanded persistent storage and data-access capabilities for cloud workloads.

Modal improved support for distributed and GPU-intensive training workloads.

Modal expanded GPU availability and lowered prices across supported accelerators.

Mistral AI released Pixtral 12B, its first open-weight multimodal model.

La Plateforme added support for Pixtral and expanded developer tooling for multimodal applications.

Meta and EssilorLuxottica extended their long-term partnership to develop multiple generations of smart-eyewear products.

Microsoft, BlackRock, Global Infrastructure Partners and MGX form an investment partnership to mobilize capital for AI datacenters and supporting energy infrastructure.

Replit launched an agent capable of creating and deploying applications from natural-language instructions.

Scale and the Center for AI Safety launched an international effort to create a broad expert-written benchmark for frontier AI systems.

Accelerate reached its 1.0 release-candidate milestone after becoming a core distributed-compute layer in the Hugging Face ecosystem.

Suno launched Covers for reimagining music in new styles.

OpenAI released its first o-series reasoning models, o1-preview and o1-mini.

Oracle introduced a natural-language assistant for exploring and explaining enterprise analytics.