Releases

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.

Mistral AI released Mistral 7B, its first open-weight language model, under the Apache 2.0 license.

Meta and EssilorLuxottica launched the second-generation Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses with voice and AI capabilities.

Meta introduced Emu as the image-generation technology powering new generative AI experiences.

Meta introduced Meta AI, a conversational assistant for WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram.

Microsoft begins rolling out Copilot in Windows as part of a Windows 11 feature update.

Amazon agreed to invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic, with AWS becoming Anthropic's primary cloud provider and Trainium and Inferentia used for model development.

Amazon made an initial $1.25 billion investment in Anthropic under its broader commitment of up to $4 billion.

Amazon agreed to invest up to $4 billion and make AWS Anthropic's primary cloud provider for mission-critical workloads.

Microsoft announces a unified Microsoft Copilot experience across Windows, web, Edge and Microsoft 365.

Oracle began embedding generative-AI capabilities into Fusion Cloud application workflows.

Oracle introduced large RDMA-connected NVIDIA GPU clusters for distributed model training.

Google DeepMind publishes AlphaMissense predictions for the effects of millions of human missense variants.

Anthropic disclosed its Long-Term Benefit Trust governance structure, designed to protect the public-benefit mission as the company scales.

Anthropic published its first Responsible Scaling Policy, introducing AI Safety Levels and deployment safeguards tied to model capability.

Oracle announced a voice-first generative-AI assistant for clinical documentation and workflows.

Databricks raised more than $500 million in Series I financing at a $43 billion valuation.

Anthropic and Boston Consulting Group partnered to help enterprise clients deploy Claude responsibly.

Microsoft Research releases Phi-1.5, a compact language model trained primarily on synthetic textbook-quality data.

Anthropic launched Claude Pro, a paid individual subscription with higher usage limits and priority access.

Baidu launched tools for fine-tuning and managing custom enterprise foundation models.

Baidu launched low-code tools for building enterprise generative-AI applications.

Baidu opened ERNIE Bot broadly after completing required generative-AI filings.

Google DeepMind and Google Cloud introduce SynthID for imperceptibly watermarking and identifying AI-generated images.