Releases

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.

NVIDIA market capitalisation at end of calendar year 2023, up 240% year-over-year, driven by explosive demand for AI training GPUs following the ChatGPT-led generative AI boom.

Midjourney released V6 with better prompt accuracy, text rendering, coherence, and image prompting.

Harvey raised $80 million at a $715 million valuation.

Anthropic expanded commercial legal protections and improved API access and enterprise terms.

Google makes Imagen 2 available to Cloud customers through Vertex AI for enterprise image generation.

Google launches AI Studio as a browser-based workspace for prototyping prompts and building with the Gemini API.

Google releases the Gemini API through Google AI Studio and Vertex AI, giving developers access to Gemini Pro.

Microsoft releases Phi-2, a 2.7-billion-parameter small language model with strong reasoning and language performance.

Mistral AI completed a €385 million Series A at a reported valuation of about €2 billion.

Mistral AI launched La Plateforme, its developer platform and API service.

Mistral AI released Mixtral 8x7B, an Apache-2.0 sparse mixture-of-experts model.

Meta introduced Audiobox, a foundation research model for generating and editing speech, voices and sound effects.

Grok became available to users through the X platform.

Meta released Llama Guard, a safeguard model for classifying conversational AI inputs and outputs.

Meta launched Purple Llama, an open trust-and-safety initiative for generative AI.

Meta launched a standalone web experience for generating images with Emu.

Google Cloud announces TPU v5p, a large-scale accelerator system for training foundation models.

Gemini 1.0 Nano launches for efficient on-device AI, initially on Pixel hardware.

Gemini 1.0 Pro launches in Bard and for developers as the balanced model in the initial family.

Google DeepMind launches Gemini 1.0 in Ultra, Pro and Nano sizes as its first natively multimodal foundation-model family.

Gemini 1.0 Ultra is introduced as the largest and most capable initial Gemini model.

IBM and Meta convened the AI Alliance to advance open, safe and responsible AI innovation.

CoreWeave completed a $642 million secondary transaction that gave existing shareholders liquidity and broadened its institutional investor base.

Palantir expanded developer access to AIP and Foundry tooling through a developer-oriented tier.

IBM released governance tooling for model risk, transparency, compliance and lifecycle oversight.

Microsoft Copilot becomes generally available with commercial data protection for eligible users.

Meta released a low-latency streaming speech translation research model.

Meta released a research model that preserves vocal style and prosody in translated speech.

Meta released a more capable second version of SeamlessM4T.

DeepSeek LLM 67B Base became publicly available as part of DeepSeek's first general LLM release.

DeepSeek published its first general-purpose 7B and 67B open language models.

DeepSeek LLM 7B Base became publicly available as part of DeepSeek's first general LLM release.

DeepSeek LLM 67B Chat became publicly available as part of DeepSeek's first general LLM release.

DeepSeek LLM 7B Chat became publicly available as part of DeepSeek's first general LLM release.

Perplexity introduced PPLX 7B Online and PPLX 70B Online, language models grounded with current web search.

Amazon released a text-to-image generation and editing model through Bedrock.

Amazon released a multimodal embedding model mapping text and images into a shared space.

Google DeepMind reports that GNoME identified 2.2 million new crystal structures, including hundreds of thousands of stable candidates.

OpenAI announced Sam Altman's return as CEO and an initial board chaired by Bret Taylor.

AWS and NVIDIA expanded their partnership around GPU infrastructure, DGX Cloud, NVIDIA software and future AI supercomputing.

AWS announced its second-generation AI training accelerator with substantially higher performance.

AWS introduced resilient infrastructure for training large foundation models across thousands of accelerators.

AWS announced real-time generative-AI assistance for contact-center agents.

AWS announced configurable safeguards for foundation-model inputs and outputs.

AWS introduced an assistant for developing on AWS, troubleshooting and transforming application code.

AWS announced a new family of generative-AI assistants for work and software development.

AWS introduced an enterprise assistant that answers questions and completes tasks using company data.

AWS introduced automatic and human evaluation workflows for comparing foundation models.

Baidu fully opened ERNIE APIs to enterprise customers through AI Cloud.

Anthropic released Claude 2.1 with a 200K-token context window, lower hallucination rates, system prompts, and beta tool use.

Microsoft Research releases Orca 2 in 7B and 13B sizes, training smaller models to use different reasoning strategies.

OpenAI's board announced that Sam Altman would depart as CEO and Mira Murati would serve as interim CEO.

AWS launched a free public playground for building shareable generative-AI applications with Amazon Bedrock.

Meta published Emu Edit for instruction-based image editing with precise task control.

Meta published Emu Video, a factorized text-to-video generation method.

Google DeepMind and YouTube introduce Lyria alongside experimental music-generation tools Dream Track and Music AI Tools.

Databricks introduced a data intelligence engine that learns enterprise semantics and powers context-aware assistance and optimization.

xAI began early API access for Grok developers ahead of the later public beta.

Microsoft introduces Maia 100, its first custom AI accelerator for Azure training and inference workloads.

Microsoft introduces Copilot for Azure to help customers design, operate and troubleshoot cloud infrastructure using natural language.

Microsoft launches Copilot Studio as the low-code platform for customizing Microsoft Copilot and building standalone copilots.

Microsoft renames Bing Chat and Bing Chat Enterprise to Microsoft Copilot and expands commercial data protection.

Google DeepMind publishes GraphCast, a machine-learning model for fast, accurate medium-range global weather forecasts.

CoreWeave announced plans to offer NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchip instances in the first quarter of 2024 and deploy NVIDIA HGX H200 systems.

NVIDIA introduced H200, adding HBM3e memory to the Hopper platform for generative AI and HPC.

Scale launched its Safety, Evaluations, and Alignment Lab to build standardized frontier-model benchmarks, evaluation products, and red-team methods.

xAI launched PromptIDE for prompt engineering and interpretability research on Grok-1.

OpenAI introduced user-configurable GPTs for creating tailored versions of ChatGPT.

OpenAI launched the Assistants API beta with Code Interpreter, Retrieval, and function calling.

OpenAI announced GPT-4 Turbo with a 128K context window, newer knowledge, and lower API pricing.

xAI announced Grok and its first public model after two months of training, with real-time knowledge through X.

Base and instruction-tuned DeepSeek Coder checkpoints were published for code completion and generation.

DeepSeek released its first open code-model family, spanning 1B to 33B parameters and trained on two trillion tokens.

Cohere introduced its third-generation embedding models with stronger multilingual retrieval and compression options.

ElevenLabs released speech-to-speech voice transformation capabilities.

Moonshot exposed a 128K-context text model through its API.

Moonshot exposed a 32K-context text model through its API.

Moonshot introduced developer API access to its language models.

Moonshot exposed an 8K-context text model through its API.

Baidu began charging a subscription for public access to ERNIE 4.0 through ERNIE Bot.

DeepSeek launched its web conversational assistant.

DeepSeek began offering web-based access to its models through the DeepSeek Chat service.

Cohere released third-generation English and multilingual reranking models for enterprise search.

Pollen Robotics launched Reachy 2, an open-source humanoid robot platform later brought into Hugging Face through its acquisition of Pollen.

Hugging Face released a production-grade server for serving text embedding and reranking models.

Microsoft 365 Copilot becomes generally available to enterprise customers across productivity applications and Microsoft 365 Chat.

Google agrees to invest up to $2 billion in Anthropic, deepening a strategic AI partnership that also includes Google Cloud infrastructure.

Google agreed to invest up to $2 billion in Anthropic, including $500 million upfront and an additional $1.5 billion over time.

IBM released generative coding assistants for Red Hat Ansible automation and mainframe application modernization.

Hugging Face H4 released an improved Zephyr 7B beta model trained on expanded public and synthetic preference data.

Meta introduced ExecuTorch, an open-source framework for efficient on-device PyTorch inference.