Releases

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.

Databricks acquired enterprise data replication company Arcion to make operational data available for analytics and AI.

IBM Research published a memory-centric neural inference chip designed for high energy efficiency.

NVIDIA publicly released its open-source TensorRT-LLM library for optimized large-model inference.

OpenAI made DALL-E 3 available to ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise users.

Baidu launched ERNIE 4.0 with upgraded comprehension, reasoning, generation and memory.

Microsoft makes Azure AI Content Safety generally available for detecting harmful content in text and images.

Anysphere raised an $8 million seed round led by the OpenAI Startup Fund to build Cursor.

Scheduled and cron-triggered functions became generally available.

HTTP endpoints backed by autoscaling Modal functions became generally available.

Modal's programmatic container image system became generally available.

Versioned Modal application deployments became generally available.

Modal's Python-first SDK and developer workflow reached general availability.

Serverless Modal functions became generally available with elastic scaling.

Modal made serverless model deployment and inference generally available.

Modal made autoscaling CPU and GPU compute generally available as part of its cloud launch.

Modal announced a $16 million Series A, bringing total capital raised to $23 million.

Modal launched its serverless cloud platform into general availability.

The web-based Kimi conversational assistant became publicly available with long-context document capabilities.

Moonshot launched Kimi as a long-context AI assistant for the Chinese market.

Perplexity launched pplx-api with hosted access to its PPLX chat models.

Perplexity released open-weight PPLX 7B Chat and PPLX 70B Chat models.

Microsoft Research releases AutoGen, a framework for building applications with conversing and collaborating AI agents.

Midjourney introduced its web-based Imagine creation interface.

Midjourney began offering creation through its own web application to eligible existing users.

ElevenLabs launched automated voice-preserving dubbing across languages.

IBM made its first 13B Granite enterprise language models available through watsonx.ai.

IBM released the first enterprise-focused Granite language and code models in watsonx.

Hugging Face H4 released an aligned 7B chat model trained with distilled direct preference optimization.

Amazon released Titan Text Express for general text-generation workloads through Bedrock.

Amazon released its lower-cost Titan text-generation model through Bedrock.

AWS launched managed retrieval-augmented generation for grounding foundation models in private data.

AWS made Amazon Bedrock generally available with managed access to Amazon and third-party foundation models.

Microsoft and Nuance introduce DAX Copilot, combining ambient clinical intelligence with generative AI for automated documentation.

Claude became available to all Amazon Bedrock customers through the Anthropic-AWS partnership.

Databricks introduced pay-per-token APIs and provisioned throughput for serving curated open foundation models.