Releases

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.

Suno launched its consumer music-generation experience for creating complete songs from prompts.

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.