Releases

Google announces Jules, an asynchronous coding agent that works on GitHub repositories and presents changes for review.

The Gemini app launches Deep Research, using long context and reasoning to investigate topics and compile reports.

Google releases experimental Gemini 2.0 Flash with native tool use, multimodal output and real-time streaming capabilities.

Replit took Agent out of early access and launched the redesigned Assistant.

The final V2.5 update improved mathematics, coding, writing, file handling and web-page summarization.

xAI launched the autoregressive Aurora image-generation model on X, adding photorealistic generation and multimodal image input.

OpenAI launched the Sora video-generation product for ChatGPT Plus and Pro users, powered by Sora Turbo.

The Government of Canada announced up to C$240 million to support Cohere's Canadian AI compute capacity project.

Meta released a multilingual 70B instruction model with performance comparable to larger Llama 3.1 models.

Suno launched its Android mobile application.

Harvey made secure direct document access from SharePoint and OneDrive generally available.

Harvey launched a Microsoft Word add-in for legal drafting and analysis.

Harvey announced integrations with Microsoft SharePoint, OneDrive, Microsoft 365 Copilot, and Word.

Perplexity expanded its publisher program with 15 additional media organizations.

Microsoft begins previewing Copilot Vision, allowing Copilot to discuss and assist with shared browsing content.

Google releases PaliGemma 2, expanding the open vision-language family with new model sizes and resolutions.

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Pro, a higher-tier subscription with expanded access to advanced models.

OpenAI released the full o1 reasoning model in ChatGPT and announced related API improvements.

AWS introduced a marketplace for discovering and deploying specialized models through Bedrock.

Microsoft Research introduces BioEmu for efficiently sampling diverse protein conformational ensembles.

Google DeepMind introduces Genie 2, capable of generating diverse playable 3D environments from a prompt image.

AWS announced SageMaker Unified Studio as part of a unified data, analytics and AI development experience.

AWS introduced managed generative-AI extraction of structured insights from multimodal content.

AWS launched Trn2 instances and UltraServers for training and serving large foundation models.

AWS released its first Nova video-generation model.

AWS released its Nova image-generation and editing model.

AWS released a capable multimodal Nova model for enterprise and agentic workloads.

AWS released a low-cost multimodal Nova model through Amazon Bedrock.

AWS released the text-only low-latency Nova model through Amazon Bedrock.

Anthropic reduced Claude 3.5 Haiku pricing to $0.80 per million input tokens and $4 per million output tokens.

Cohere introduced Rerank 3.5 with stronger reasoning and multilingual retrieval over complex enterprise data.

Amazon released a faster and more memory-efficient zero-shot forecasting model family.

Palantir launched Warp Speed as an AI-powered manufacturing operating system and industrial deployment initiative.

Oracle had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $512.2 billion as of Nov 30, 2024 (NYSE: ORCL), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Hugging Face released SmolVLM, a compact 2B vision-language model designed to run with very low memory.

Databricks introduced code-first Custom Agents for building, deploying and evaluating production agent systems using any LLM.

Hugging Face detailed a new storage and transfer architecture using Xet’s content-defined chunking to accelerate large repository operations.

Runway introduced Frames, an image model emphasizing stylistic control.

Anthropic introduced and open-sourced MCP, its specification, SDKs, local Claude Desktop support, and reference servers.

Amazon committed an additional $4 billion to Anthropic, bringing its total investment to $8 billion and naming AWS Anthropic's primary training partner.

Microsoft begins releasing Recall to Windows Insiders on supported Copilot+ PCs after redesigning security and privacy controls.

Amazon made a new $4 billion investment in Anthropic, bringing its total investment to $8 billion and naming AWS the primary cloud and training partner.

Suno released v4 with better audio, lyrics, and song structures.

Microsoft launches Azure AI Agent Service in preview for building and managing enterprise AI agents.

Microsoft introduces Azure AI Foundry as a unified platform for developing, evaluating, deploying and governing AI applications and agents.

Perplexity launched an AI shopping experience with product cards, recommendations, visual search and merchant integrations.

Mistral AI upgraded Le Chat with web search, canvas, image generation and richer document-understanding features.

Mistral AI released Pixtral Large, a 124B multimodal model for image and document understanding.

Palantir released Ontology SDK capabilities for developers building applications against governed objects and actions.

Palantir formalized its developer platform alongside AIP for Developers, SDKs, APIs, and application tooling.