Releases

Databricks introduced an AI assistant for generating, explaining and repairing SQL and Python with organizational context.

Databricks launched Lakehouse AI, later branded Mosaic AI, as an integrated platform for building generative-AI applications on enterprise data.

Midjourney released V5.2 with improved aesthetics, shorter prompts, and Zoom Out.

MosaicML released the MPT-30B base, instruct and chat models with commercial-use terms.

ElevenLabs expanded its generative voice tools with Voice Design.

ElevenLabs launched a classifier for detecting audio generated by its models.

ElevenLabs raised a $19 million Series A led by Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, and Andreessen Horowitz.

Microsoft Research introduces Phi-1, showing that curated textbook-quality data can produce strong code and reasoning performance in a compact model.

Microsoft Research introduces Kosmos-2, linking generated language to object regions in images through grounding.

Meta introduced Voicebox, a generative speech model capable of editing, sampling and cross-lingual speech generation.

CoreWeave released Tensorizer, an open-source tensor serialization tool that streams models from S3, HTTP, and file storage to reduce PyTorch model startup time.

Oracle announced a managed generative-AI service developed with Cohere for enterprise use cases.

Oracle selected Cohere models and OCI infrastructure to deliver native generative-AI services across Oracle applications.

Mistral AI raised a €105 million seed round, one of Europe's largest seed financings, at a reported valuation of roughly €240 million.

Cohere raised $270 million from Inovia, Oracle, NVIDIA, Salesforce and other investors to scale enterprise generative AI.

Microsoft Research introduces Orca, a 13-billion-parameter model trained from rich explanation traces produced by larger models.

Palantir began using intensive AIP Bootcamps to move customers rapidly from use case to working AI deployment.

Hugging Face launched a daily research-paper discovery feed connected to community profiles, models, datasets, and discussions.

Perplexity introduced its paid Pro subscription with expanded searches and access to advanced models.

NVIDIA announced DGX GH200, connecting 256 Grace Hopper Superchips into a large shared-memory AI system.

Hugging Face launched an open and reproducible benchmark leaderboard for comparing community language models.

Perplexity introduced Copilot, a guided multi-step research mode later renamed Pro Search.

Perplexity launched its native Android application.

Baidu began transforming Wenku into an ERNIE-powered document and creativity platform.

Microsoft announces a common plugin model spanning ChatGPT, Bing, Dynamics 365 Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot.