Releases

DeepSeek introduced the Janus family for unified multimodal understanding and generation.

Meta released research on a multimodal language model that freely mixes text and speech.

Perplexity launched Spaces and Internal Knowledge Search for organizing research and searching company files alongside the web.

Suno launched Scenes for creating soundtracks from photos and videos.

Mistral AI launched the Ministral 3B and 8B models for edge, on-device and local use.

Perplexity introduced dedicated finance capabilities for stocks, company earnings and market research.

Anthropic updated its Responsible Scaling Policy with revised capability thresholds, safety-case processes, and governance measures.

CoreWeave secured a $650 million revolving credit facility from a syndicate of major banks to support global expansion.

Amazon introduced generative-AI shopping guides that summarize category information and organize product recommendations.

Anthropic launched asynchronous batch processing for large volumes of Claude API requests.

Meta introduced foundation models for video generation, personalized video, editing and synchronized audio.

OpenAI introduced Canvas, a collaborative interface for writing and coding projects in ChatGPT.

OpenAI closed a $6.6 billion funding round at a $157 billion post-money valuation.

The LeRobot community introduced the SO-100, a low-cost open robot arm design for data collection and imitation learning.

OpenAI launched the Realtime API public beta for low-latency multimodal experiences.

Baidu had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $36.9 billion as of Sep 30, 2024 (NASDAQ: BIDU), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

IBM had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $203.6 billion as of Sep 30, 2024 (NYSE: IBM), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Palantir had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $83.3 billion as of Sep 30, 2024 (NASDAQ: PLTR), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Meta had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $1.448 trillion as of Sep 30, 2024 (NASDAQ: META), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Amazon had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $1.956 trillion as of Sep 30, 2024 (NASDAQ: AMZN), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Alphabet had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $2.049 trillion as of Sep 30, 2024 (NASDAQ: GOOGL), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Microsoft had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $3.198 trillion as of Sep 30, 2024 (NASDAQ: MSFT), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Meta published improved SAM 2.1 checkpoints and developer tooling.

Oracle released a managed retrieval-augmented generation and enterprise-agent service.

Meta released a 90B multimodal model for image understanding.

Meta released an 11B multimodal model for image understanding.

Meta released a compact 1B text model for on-device use.

Meta released a compact 3B text model for on-device use.

OpenAI began expanding ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode with more natural real-time audio conversations.

Palantir expanded its Maven Smart System work with the U.S. government under a five-year agreement with a potential value up to $100 million.

Anthropic introduced Contextual Retrieval, combining contextual embeddings and BM25 to improve retrieval-augmented generation.

Modal added secure tunnels and execution improvements for sandbox workloads.

Modal added improved object-storage bucket mounting for data-intensive jobs.

Modal expanded secret management for applications and integrations.

Modal expanded queue-based communication between serverless functions.

Modal expanded its persistent key-value storage capabilities.

Modal improved persistent volume performance and reliability.

Modal expanded persistent storage and data-access capabilities for cloud workloads.

Modal improved support for distributed and GPU-intensive training workloads.

Modal expanded GPU availability and lowered prices across supported accelerators.

Mistral AI released Pixtral 12B, its first open-weight multimodal model.

La Plateforme added support for Pixtral and expanded developer tooling for multimodal applications.

Meta and EssilorLuxottica extended their long-term partnership to develop multiple generations of smart-eyewear products.

Microsoft, BlackRock, Global Infrastructure Partners and MGX form an investment partnership to mobilize capital for AI datacenters and supporting energy infrastructure.

Replit launched an agent capable of creating and deploying applications from natural-language instructions.

Scale and the Center for AI Safety launched an international effort to create a broad expert-written benchmark for frontier AI systems.

Accelerate reached its 1.0 release-candidate milestone after becoming a core distributed-compute layer in the Hugging Face ecosystem.

Suno launched Covers for reimagining music in new styles.

OpenAI released its first o-series reasoning models, o1-preview and o1-mini.

Oracle introduced a natural-language assistant for exploring and explaining enterprise analytics.

Oracle expanded its analytics platform with AI-generated insights and application-aware data models.

NotebookLM adds Audio Overviews, generating conversational podcast-style discussions grounded in notebook sources.

Oracle integrated HeatWave GenAI and vector processing with multicloud lakehouse data.

Oracle expanded AutoML with larger models, topic modeling, drift detection and improved anomaly detection.

Anthropic added organization workspaces to separate API keys, usage, and access controls.

Midjourney introduced personalized Niji generation based on ranked preferences.

Harvey and PwC co-developed jurisdiction-specific tax models for professional-services work.

DeepSeek merged its general and coding capabilities into V2.5 and published weights.

Mosaic AI Agent Framework and Agent Evaluation entered public preview with integrated deployment, evaluation, tracing and governance.

Anthropic launched Claude for Enterprise with expanded context, security, administration, and GitHub integration.

xAI brought its Memphis Colossus training cluster online with 100,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs after a 122-day build.

Harvey released a major second-generation Assistant experience.

Scale and research collaborators introduced EnigmaEval, a multimodal reasoning benchmark built from novel puzzle-competition problems.

Oracle had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $389.4 billion as of Aug 31, 2024 (NYSE: ORCL), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

The August Command R+ release delivered roughly 50% higher throughput and 25% lower latency with the same hardware footprint.

Cohere updated Command R with improved tool decisions, instruction following, structured-data analysis and robustness.

Amazon hired Covariant's founders and a portion of its team and received a non-exclusive license to its robotic foundation models.

Perplexity partnered with Comcast to provide eligible Xfinity Rewards members a year of Perplexity Pro.

CoreWeave publicly introduced Mission Control as its managed workflow for validating hardware, monitoring cluster health, and maintaining reliable AI infrastructure.

CoreWeave launched NVIDIA H200 Tensor Core GPU instances and said it was the first cloud provider to bring the H200 to market.

Harvey partnered with Icertis to bring generative AI into enterprise contract workflows.

IBM unveiled Telum II with upgraded on-chip AI acceleration for next-generation mainframes.

NVIDIA and partners launched reusable reference workflows for enterprise generative AI agents.

Anthropic made Artifacts generally available across Claude plans and added publishing and remixing capabilities.

Midjourney opened its web creation platform to all users.

Cursor raised $60 million in Series A financing from Andreessen Horowitz, Thrive Capital, OpenAI, and other technology leaders at a reported $400 million valuation.

Hugging Face released IDEFICS3, a more efficient multimodal architecture that became the basis for the SmolVLM family.

Microsoft releases Phi-3.5 Vision for multimodal image and text understanding.

Microsoft releases Phi-3.5 MoE, a mixture-of-experts small language model.

Microsoft releases Phi-3.5 Mini with multilingual support and a long context window.

Midjourney launched its unified web editing platform for generative image modification.

Midjourney launched a unified editor for reframe, repaint, vary region, pan, and zoom.

Runway released a faster and lower-cost Gen-3 Alpha Turbo variant.

DeepSeek released an improved formal theorem prover using reinforcement learning and search.

Google begins broad availability of Imagen 3 through ImageFX and later expands access through Gemini and Vertex AI.

Anthropic launched prompt caching to reduce latency and cost for repeated long-context prompts.

xAI released Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini in beta on X and announced enterprise API availability.

Microsoft and Palantir partnered to deliver secure cloud, analytics, and AI capabilities to U.S. defense and intelligence agencies.

Hugging Face acquired XetHub to bring content-defined chunking, deduplication, and high-performance storage to large AI repositories.

Mistral AI expanded La Plateforme with model customization and fine-tuning capabilities.

Amazon updated its image model with image conditioning, subject consistency and background-removal capabilities.

Moonshot raised a reported $300 million round that valued the company at $3.3 billion.

DeepSeek introduced disk-based context caching to reduce repeated-token costs.

Google enters a non-exclusive technology licensing agreement with Character.AI and brings co-founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, plus members of their research team, into Google DeepMind.

Scale released MultiChallenge to measure model performance on realistic multi-turn conversation problems involving memory, instruction retention, editing, and self-consistency.

Perplexity partnered with Uber to offer eligible Uber One members a complimentary year of Perplexity Pro.

GitHub launches Models in beta, letting developers compare and experiment with multiple AI models inside GitHub.

Google releases ShieldGemma, open safety classifiers built on Gemma 2 for filtering model inputs and outputs.

Midjourney released V6.1 with improved details, image quality, speed, text, and personalization.

Perplexity launched a publisher program with revenue sharing, API access and technology support.