Releases

AWS launched Inferentia2-powered EC2 instances for large-scale generative-AI inference.

Meta released MMS speech-recognition and synthesis models covering more than 1,100 languages.

Meta unveiled its first in-house AI inference accelerator, designed initially for recommendation workloads.

Anthropic and Zoom announced a partnership to use Claude in Zoom products, alongside an investment from Zoom Ventures.

Anthropic expanded Claude's API context window from 9K to 100K tokens.

Scale launched EGP as a model-agnostic enterprise platform for deploying secure generative-AI applications with proprietary data, fine-tuning, evaluation, and red teaming.

Scale launched Donovan, a secure decision-support platform using large language models, retrieval, and mission data for government and defense users.

Scale deployed Donovan for the U.S. Army XVIII Airborne Corps, describing it as the first large-language-model platform deployed on a classified network for the Corps.

Google Cloud launches Model Garden to discover, customize and deploy Google and third-party foundation models.

Google launches PaLM 2, improving multilingual, reasoning and coding capabilities across Google products and Cloud.

The release of Replit Code v1 3B established Replit's native family of open coding language models.

Replit released its open 3-billion-parameter code model for code completion.

IBM Consulting launched a center with more than 1,000 specialists to support enterprise generative-AI adoption.

IBM Consulting announced a dedicated generative-AI center and delivery practice alongside watsonx.

IBM announced watsonx as an integrated AI and data platform for enterprise foundation-model development and governance.

Meta released ImageBind, a joint embedding model spanning images, text, audio, depth, thermal and IMU data.

Anthropic published the principles used to train and guide Claude's behavior through Constitutional AI.

MosaicML released MPT-7B, Base, Instruct, Chat and StoryWriter variants under commercially usable licenses.

BigCode released StarCoder, a 15.5B-parameter code model trained on permissively licensed code from The Stack.

Midjourney released V5.1 with stronger default aesthetics and coherence.

Databricks agreed to acquire data-governance company Okera to strengthen governance and AI security capabilities.

Baidu introduced ERNIE 3.5 as the new foundation model powering ERNIE Bot.

Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample and Timothée Lacroix founded Mistral AI in Paris to build efficient frontier AI models with an open-weight strategy.

ElevenLabs released its first multilingual speech-synthesis model.

Harvey raised a $21 million Series A led by Sequoia with participation from the OpenAI Startup Fund and others.