Releases

Microsoft and Mistral AI announced a multiyear partnership to make Mistral models available through Azure AI and collaborate on AI development and distribution.

Mistral AI launched Le Chat, its conversational AI assistant.

Mistral AI introduced Mistral Small as its efficient commercial model tier.

Mistral AI launched its first flagship commercial model, Mistral Large.

Microsoft announces a multiyear partnership and €15 million investment in Mistral AI, bringing its models to Azure AI.

Google DeepMind introduces Genie, a generative interactive environment model trained from unlabelled internet videos.

Perplexity and ElevenLabs launched the Discover Daily AI-generated news podcast.

Google Cloud launches Gemini Code Assist, evolving Duet AI for Developers into a Gemini-powered coding assistant.

Google releases Gemma 2B and 7B open models with weights and responsible AI tooling.

Cohere added function calling and tool-use capabilities for building grounded enterprise agents.

Moonshot raised about $1 billion in a financing round led by Alibaba, reaching a reported $2.5 billion valuation.

Meta released V-JEPA, a video model trained by predicting missing representations rather than pixels.

Google DeepMind introduces Gemini 1.5 Pro with a mixture-of-experts architecture and a one-million-token context window.

OpenAI introduced Sora, a text-to-video model, as a research preview for red teamers and selected creators.

Cohere Labs' Aya initiative culminated in its first open multilingual model and dataset work spanning 101 languages.

Cohere For AI released Aya 101, an open multilingual instruction-following model covering 101 languages.

Gemini 1.0 Ultra becomes available to consumers through the new Gemini Advanced subscription.

Google renames Bard to Gemini, launches the Gemini mobile experience and introduces Gemini Advanced with Ultra 1.0.

Base, instruction and reinforcement-learning DeepSeekMath 7B checkpoints were published.

DeepSeek introduced its open mathematical reasoning research line.

Oracle expanded managed extraction and classification for documents within OCI AI Services.

Midjourney introduced Style Reference for transferring visual style from example images.

Databricks acquired Einblick, whose natural-language notebook technology and team strengthened AI-native data exploration.

Midjourney and Spellbrush released Niji V6.

Meta released a 70-billion-parameter Code Llama model for code generation and instruction following.

The Browser Company partnered with Perplexity to make it a search-engine option in Arc.

DeepSeek released an updated 7B coding model that later served as the initialization for DeepSeekMath.

Hugging Face and Google Cloud announced a strategic partnership integrating the Hub with Google Cloud infrastructure, Vertex AI, and TPUs.

OpenAI released text-embedding-3-small and text-embedding-3-large with improved performance and new dimension controls.

Oracle made Meta Llama 2 available as a managed model in OCI Generative AI.

Oracle made Cohere generation and embedding models available through its managed service.

OCI released dedicated clusters for fine-tuning and hosting foundation models.

Oracle made its managed generative-AI service generally available with Cohere and Meta Llama models.

ElevenLabs previewed a mobile reader for listening to documents and articles.

ElevenLabs launched its Voice Library marketplace for discovering and sharing voices.

ElevenLabs launched Dubbing Studio for professional video localization workflows.

ElevenLabs raised an $80 million Series B and reached unicorn status at an approximately $1.1 billion valuation.

Google Cloud and Samsung announce deployment of Gemini Pro and Imagen 2 for Galaxy AI features, while Gemini Nano powers on-device experiences.

Google Research introduces AMIE, a research AI system optimized for diagnostic medical dialogue.

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Team, later renamed ChatGPT Business, for collaborative workplace use.

OpenAI launched the GPT Store for discovering and using custom GPTs.

NVIDIA introduced production generative AI microservices for interactive digital humans.

Perplexity raised $73.6 million in a Series B led by IVP at a reported $520 million valuation, with participation from NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos and others.

Cursor introduced an enterprise deployment and governance offering.

Cursor introduced team administration, privacy, billing, and collaboration capabilities.

Cursor introduced persistent repository and user instructions for AI behavior.

Palantir introduced PFCS Forward for tactical fires and command workflows.

Moonshot expanded Kimi from the web to mobile applications.

Scale expanded its generative-AI platform and services into custom agentic applications connected to enterprise data, controls, and workflows.

Anthropic reportedly closed a $750 million Series D led by Menlo Ventures at an approximately $18.4 billion post-money valuation.