Releases

Databricks released DBRX, a 132-billion-total-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 36 billion active parameters under an open license.

Amazon invested an additional $2.75 billion in Anthropic, completing the $4 billion commitment announced in 2023.

Amazon invested an additional $2.75 billion, completing its initial $4 billion Anthropic investment commitment.

Cohere Labs made Command R weights available for research and evaluation.

Cohere released Command R, a 128K-context model optimized for production RAG, citations and tool use.

Suno released v3 with improved full-song generation, vocals, and instrumentation.

Midjourney released new Style Reference algorithms and versioning.

Anthropic, AWS, and Accenture partnered to help enterprises, including regulated industries, deploy Claude-based solutions.

Harvey launched its professional-services AI platform on Microsoft Azure.

Microsoft enters an AI licensing arrangement with Inflection and hires Mustafa Suleyman, Karén Simonyan and members of the Inflection team to build Microsoft AI.

Microsoft forms the Microsoft AI organization focused on Copilot and consumer AI, appointing Mustafa Suleyman as EVP and CEO and Karén Simonyan as Chief Scientist.

Anthropic made Claude 3 models available to Google Cloud customers through Vertex AI.

Kimi opened a beta supporting up to two million Chinese characters of context.

Microsoft and NVIDIA expand integrations across Azure AI, NVIDIA NIM, Omniverse and enterprise generative-AI infrastructure.

NVIDIA and AWS announced broader Blackwell infrastructure and generative AI software integrations.

NVIDIA and Microsoft expanded integrations spanning Azure AI, NIM, Omniverse and enterprise generative AI.

NVIDIA introduced the Blackwell GPU architecture, B100, B200 and GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip for generative AI.

NVIDIA launched NIM, containerized optimized inference microservices for generative AI deployment.

NVIDIA announced DGX GB200 and a Blackwell-powered DGX SuperPOD reference architecture.

NVIDIA launched Earth-2 cloud APIs and AI models for high-resolution weather and climate simulation.

NVIDIA announced a general-purpose foundation model initiative for humanoid robots.

xAI released the 314B-parameter Grok-1 base weights and Mixture-of-Experts architecture under Apache 2.0.

Google DeepMind introduces SIMA, an instructable agent that follows natural-language directions across multiple 3D environments.

Anthropic released Claude 3 Haiku as the fastest and least expensive model in the Claude 3 family.

Midjourney introduced Character Reference for preserving character appearance across generations.