Releases

DeepSeek introduced its efficient second-generation mixture-of-experts architecture.

Oracle expanded natural-language-to-SQL and retrieval capabilities for Autonomous Database.

Oracle repositioned its flagship database around integrated AI for enterprise data.

Oracle released native vector generation, indexing and semantic similarity search alongside SQL.

Oracle released Database 23ai with integrated vector search and AI-focused developer capabilities.

Harvey launched Vault for secure analysis of large legal document collections.

CoreWeave raised $1.1 billion in Series C funding led by Coatue to expand its AI cloud across products and geographies.

Anthropic launched its first native Claude application for iOS.

Anthropic launched the Claude Team plan for collaborative organizational use.

Amazon released its second-generation multilingual text embedding model through Bedrock.

AWS folded Amazon CodeWhisperer into Amazon Q Developer while preserving its coding-assistance capabilities.

AWS made its software-development assistant generally available and incorporated CodeWhisperer capabilities.

AWS made its enterprise generative-AI assistant generally available.

GitHub opens a technical preview of Copilot Workspace, an agentic environment for moving from issues to plans and implementations.

IBM agreed to acquire HashiCorp to expand hybrid-cloud automation for infrastructure supporting generative AI.

NVIDIA entered a definitive agreement to acquire AI workload orchestration provider Run:ai.

Perplexity raised $62.7 million in a Series B extension led by Daniel Gross, taking its valuation above $1 billion.

Perplexity launched Enterprise Pro, its first business subscription with organizational search, security and data controls.

AWS made configurable Bedrock safety controls generally available.

Microsoft releases Phi-3 Mini, a 3.8-billion-parameter model designed for capable language and reasoning on constrained devices.

Meta and World Resources Institute released global high-resolution canopy-height maps built with DINOv2.

Meta released the Llama 3-based update to its open safeguard model.

Meta released the 8B Llama 3 pretrained and instruction-tuned models.

Meta released the 70B Llama 3 pretrained and instruction-tuned models.

Hugging Face released IDEFICS2, an 8B visual-language model with stronger OCR, document, and visual reasoning capabilities.

Mistral AI released Mixtral 8x22B, a larger open sparse mixture-of-experts model.

Microsoft invests $1.5 billion in G42 and expands a strategic partnership covering Azure, responsible AI, infrastructure and emerging-market deployments.

xAI previewed its first multimodal model, adding understanding of documents, diagrams, charts, screenshots and photographs.

Meta introduced a second-generation MTIA accelerator with increased performance and memory capacity.

Google releases CodeGemma variants for code completion, code generation and instruction following.

Databricks optimized DBRX inference and made the model available through Mosaic AI Model Serving.

Oracle and Palantir partnered to make Palantir platforms available across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and combine cloud, data, and AI capabilities.

Command R+ became available first through Microsoft Azure alongside Cohere's hosted API.

Cohere introduced Command R+, its higher-capacity enterprise model for advanced RAG, multilingual generation and tools.

Replit introduced a native 7B model specialized for fixing language-server diagnostic errors.

Anthropic published research showing how long-context models can be jailbroken using many demonstrations and proposed mitigations.

Sentient's ViDAR visual detection and ranging capability joined Shield AI's product portfolio.

Shield AI acquired Sentient Vision Systems and its wide-area motion-imaging portfolio.

Security Copilot becomes generally available with integrations across Microsoft's security portfolio.

xAI announced Grok-1.5 with improved reasoning and a 128,000-token context window.

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.