Releases

CoreWeave acquired Conductor Technologies and its cloud task-management and burst-rendering platform, extending the cloud into end-to-end VFX and animation workflows.

Microsoft announces a multiyear, multibillion-dollar extension of its OpenAI partnership covering supercomputing, model deployment and Azure commercialization.

OpenAI and Microsoft announced a multiyear, multibillion-dollar extension of their partnership, including Azure supercomputing investment and exclusive cloud-provider status.

Microsoft makes Azure OpenAI Service generally available with enterprise access to OpenAI models through Azure.

Scale announced a restructuring that reduced its employee workforce by roughly 20 percent after expanding too quickly during the prior growth cycle.

Cohere added governed connectors to ground generative applications in enterprise repositories and data systems.

Cohere introduced a conversational Chat API that evolved to support RAG, citations, tools and structured outputs.

Scale launched Outlier to connect subject-matter experts with generative-AI training and evaluation projects.

Hugging Face expanded its organization offering with team and enterprise plans for private repositories, access control, governance, and support.

NVIDIA market capitalisation at end of calendar year 2022, down 51% from the prior year amid a broader semiconductor and tech sector downturn.

Google Research presents Med-PaLM, adapting PaLM to medical question answering and clinical knowledge benchmarks.

Anthropic published Constitutional AI, a method for training a harmless assistant through AI feedback guided by explicit principles.

OpenAI released text-embedding-ada-002, replacing multiple earlier embedding models with a more capable and lower-cost model.

Hugging Face released Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning tools for adapting large models with methods such as LoRA.

Perplexity launched its citation-first conversational answer engine for real-time web search.

Magnetar backed CoreWeave with a $100 million strategic investment to expand GPU capacity for AI, machine learning, and visual-computing customers.

OpenAI launched ChatGPT as a conversational research preview.

Meta withdrew the public Galactica demo after criticism over unreliable and misleading generated scientific content.

Meta AI released a research demo of Galactica, a large language model trained on scientific knowledge.

Amazon introduced an AI and computer-vision system able to identify and handle individual products.

BigScience released BLOOMZ and mT0, instruction-finetuned multilingual models derived from BLOOM and the xP3 task collection.

Cohere released its second-generation multilingual embedding model for semantic search across more than 100 languages.

The BigCode project released The Stack, a large permissively licensed source-code dataset with tools for governance and opt-out.

Meta AI published hundreds of millions of predicted metagenomic protein structures with ESMFold.

Cohere established its Rerank family of cross-encoder relevance models for search pipelines.

Cohere made relevance reranking available through a dedicated API endpoint requiring only a small search-stack integration.

Cohere introduced a multilingual cross-encoder Rerank endpoint for improving keyword and semantic search results.

Meta released EnCodec, a neural audio codec for high-fidelity compression.

IBM Research disclosed an AI accelerator built for efficient enterprise inference.

MLflow 2.0 expanded evaluation, pipelines and deployment workflows for production machine learning.

Microsoft announces Designer, an AI-powered graphic-design application using generative image technology.

AWS launched Trainium-powered EC2 instances for high-performance deep-learning training.

Google Research introduces AudioLM for generating long-term coherent, high-fidelity audio from discrete representations.

Hugging Face launched managed, autoscaling dedicated endpoints for deploying models from the Hub.

Meta open-sourced AITemplate, a Python framework that transforms neural networks into optimized GPU code.

Hugging Face released Text Generation Inference, a production server optimized for large-language-model generation.

Meta presented Make-A-Video, a system for generating short videos from text prompts.

OpenAI removed the DALL-E beta waitlist and expanded access to new users.

OpenAI released Whisper, a multilingual speech-recognition model, together with model weights and inference code.

NVIDIA introduced BioNeMo, a generative AI service for chemistry and biomolecular research.

Meta moved PyTorch into an independent foundation hosted by the Linux Foundation.

Perplexity raised approximately $3.1 million in seed financing from Elad Gil and a group of prominent AI and technology investors.

Diffusers added first-class support for Stable Diffusion, enabling local and hosted generation workflows around the newly released open model.

Hugging Face launched its enterprise platform around Private Hub, secure collaboration, governance, deployment, and organizational support.

Hugging Face launched Private Hub as a secure and compliant platform for organizations to collaborate on models, datasets, and applications.

Amazon researchers published a 20-billion-parameter multilingual sequence-to-sequence teacher model.

Baidu launched an ERNIE-powered AI art and creative-generation service.

Hugging Face released Transformer Reinforcement Learning tooling for post-training language models with supervised, preference, and reinforcement-learning methods.

Aravind Srinivas, Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho and Andy Konwinski founded Perplexity in San Francisco.

The AlphaFold database expands to predicted structures for nearly every catalogued protein known to science.