Releases

IBM Consulting announced a dedicated generative-AI center and delivery practice alongside watsonx.

IBM announced watsonx as an integrated AI and data platform for enterprise foundation-model development and governance.

Meta released ImageBind, a joint embedding model spanning images, text, audio, depth, thermal and IMU data.

Anthropic published the principles used to train and guide Claude's behavior through Constitutional AI.

MosaicML released MPT-7B, Base, Instruct, Chat and StoryWriter variants under commercially usable licenses.

BigCode released StarCoder, a 15.5B-parameter code model trained on permissively licensed code from The Stack.

Databricks agreed to acquire data-governance company Okera to strengthen governance and AI security capabilities.

Baidu introduced ERNIE 3.5 as the new foundation model powering ERNIE Bot.

Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample and Timothée Lacroix founded Mistral AI in Paris to build efficient frontier AI models with an open-weight strategy.

Scale partnered with Anthropic to help enterprises customize and deploy generative-AI applications powered by Claude.

Anthropic partnered with Scale AI to help enterprises deploy and customize generative AI applications powered by Claude.

Hugging Face launched HuggingChat, an open-source conversational interface initially powered by an OpenAssistant model.

CoreWeave closed a primary Series B funding round led by Magnetar Capital to expand its GPU cloud for generative AI.

Google combines the DeepMind and Google Brain teams into a single unit, Google DeepMind, led by Demis Hassabis.

Meta released DINOv2, a self-supervised vision foundation model and pretrained visual features.

Amazon introduced its first text embedding foundation model through the Bedrock preview.

AWS made its generative-AI coding assistant generally available, including a free individual tier and reference tracking.

AWS announced a managed service for building generative-AI applications with foundation models from Amazon and third parties.

AWS introduced Amazon Titan, its family of text generation and embedding foundation models available through Bedrock.

Databricks released Dolly 2.0 with commercial-use weights and the human-generated databricks-dolly-15k instruction dataset.

CoreWeave publicly detailed its managed inference service for securely serving AI models at scale.

Meta released SAM, its promptable image-segmentation model, together with model weights and the SA-1B dataset.

Baidu launched an ERNIE-powered enterprise coding assistant.

Anthropic launched an early Claude integration for Slack workspaces.

Perplexity launched its native conversational answer-engine application for iPhone and iPad.

Perplexity raised $25.6 million in a Series A led by New Enterprise Associates.

Microsoft introduces Security Copilot, a generative-AI assistant for security investigation, threat intelligence and response.

Baidu AI Cloud launched Qianfan as an enterprise foundation-model and application-development platform.

Databricks released Dolly, a six-billion-parameter instruction-following model that could be trained inexpensively on one machine.

OpenAI introduced plugins connecting ChatGPT to third-party applications and fresh information.

GitHub introduces Copilot X, including conversational Copilot Chat experiences across editors, pull requests and command-line workflows.

Oracle expanded bare-metal GPU instances and high-performance networking for large AI training workloads.

CoreWeave made large-scale NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU infrastructure available for generative-AI training and inference workloads.

Microsoft launches Bing Image Creator, integrating generative image creation into Bing chat and the Edge sidebar.

Google begins opening Bard access in the United States and United Kingdom as an early generative-AI experiment.

NVIDIA launched DGX Cloud, providing browser-based access to managed AI supercomputing infrastructure.

NVIDIA announced broad H100 availability through leading cloud and server providers as generative AI demand surged.

NVIDIA introduced cloud services for enterprises to build custom language and visual generative AI models.

Baidu unveiled its generative conversational assistant, Wenxin Yiyan/ERNIE Bot.

Microsoft introduces Microsoft 365 Copilot and Business Chat, combining large language models with Microsoft Graph and productivity applications.

Google Cloud announces generative AI capabilities in Vertex AI and Generative AI App Builder for enterprise customers.

Anthropic made Claude available through an API and chat interface in its developer console.

Anthropic introduced Claude and Claude Instant more broadly after a closed alpha with partners.

OpenAI released GPT-4, a multimodal large model accepting image and text inputs and producing text outputs.

MosaicML released MosaicBERT, an optimized BERT architecture designed to pretrain high-quality models at much lower cost.

Anthropic described its strategy for building, measuring, and deploying capable AI systems while preparing for potentially transformative impacts.

Microsoft introduces Dynamics 365 Copilot across sales, service, marketing, supply chain and business workflows.

Moonshot AI was founded in Beijing by Yang Zhilin, Zhou Xinyu and Wu Yuxin to develop frontier foundation models.

Cohere established Command as its principal family of enterprise generative language models.

Cohere released Command Light as a lower-latency generation option for enterprise text workloads.