Releases

Google releases Gemma 2B and 7B open models with weights and responsible AI tooling.

Cohere added function calling and tool-use capabilities for building grounded enterprise agents.

Valuation implied by the funding round "Alibaba-led financing values Moonshot at $2.5B".

Moonshot raised about $1 billion in a financing round led by Alibaba, reaching a reported $2.5 billion valuation.

Meta released V-JEPA, a video model trained by predicting missing representations rather than pixels.

Google DeepMind introduces Gemini 1.5 Pro with a mixture-of-experts architecture and a one-million-token context window.

OpenAI introduced Sora, a text-to-video model, as a research preview for red teamers and selected creators.

Cohere Labs' Aya initiative culminated in its first open multilingual model and dataset work spanning 101 languages.

Cohere For AI released Aya 101, an open multilingual instruction-following model covering 101 languages.

Gemini 1.0 Ultra becomes available to consumers through the new Gemini Advanced subscription.

Google renames Bard to Gemini, launches the Gemini mobile experience and introduces Gemini Advanced with Ultra 1.0.

Base, instruction and reinforcement-learning DeepSeekMath 7B checkpoints were published.

DeepSeek introduced its open mathematical reasoning research line.

Oracle expanded managed extraction and classification for documents within OCI AI Services.

Midjourney introduced Style Reference for transferring visual style from example images.

Databricks acquired Einblick, whose natural-language notebook technology and team strengthened AI-native data exploration.

Midjourney and Spellbrush released Niji V6.

Meta released a 70-billion-parameter Code Llama model for code generation and instruction following.

The Browser Company partnered with Perplexity to make it a search-engine option in Arc.

DeepSeek released an updated 7B coding model that later served as the initialization for DeepSeekMath.

Hugging Face and Google Cloud announced a strategic partnership integrating the Hub with Google Cloud infrastructure, Vertex AI, and TPUs.

OpenAI released text-embedding-3-small and text-embedding-3-large with improved performance and new dimension controls.

Oracle made Meta Llama 2 available as a managed model in OCI Generative AI.

Oracle made Cohere generation and embedding models available through its managed service.

OCI released dedicated clusters for fine-tuning and hosting foundation models.

Oracle made its managed generative-AI service generally available with Cohere and Meta Llama models.

Valuation implied by the funding round "ElevenLabs raises $80 million Series B".

ElevenLabs previewed a mobile reader for listening to documents and articles.

ElevenLabs launched its Voice Library marketplace for discovering and sharing voices.

ElevenLabs launched Dubbing Studio for professional video localization workflows.

ElevenLabs raised an $80 million Series B and reached unicorn status at an approximately $1.1 billion valuation.

Google Cloud and Samsung announce deployment of Gemini Pro and Imagen 2 for Galaxy AI features, while Gemini Nano powers on-device experiences.

Google Research introduces AMIE, a research AI system optimized for diagnostic medical dialogue.

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Team, later renamed ChatGPT Business, for collaborative workplace use.

OpenAI launched the GPT Store for discovering and using custom GPTs.

NVIDIA introduced production generative AI microservices for interactive digital humans.

Valuation implied by the funding round "$73.6 million Series B at $520 million valuation".

Perplexity raised $73.6 million in a Series B led by IVP at a reported $520 million valuation, with participation from NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos and others.

Valuation implied by the funding round "Anthropic closes reported $750 million Series D".

Cursor introduced an enterprise deployment and governance offering.

Cursor introduced team administration, privacy, billing, and collaboration capabilities.

Cursor introduced persistent repository and user instructions for AI behavior.

Palantir introduced PFCS Forward for tactical fires and command workflows.

Moonshot expanded Kimi from the web to mobile applications.

Scale expanded its generative-AI platform and services into custom agentic applications connected to enterprise data, controls, and workflows.

Anthropic reportedly closed a $750 million Series D led by Menlo Ventures at an approximately $18.4 billion post-money valuation.

NVIDIA market capitalisation at end of calendar year 2023, up 240% year-over-year, driven by explosive demand for AI training GPUs following the ChatGPT-led generative AI boom.

Suno launched its consumer music-generation experience for creating complete songs from prompts.

Midjourney released V6 with better prompt accuracy, text rendering, coherence, and image prompting.

Valuation implied by the funding round "Harvey raises $80 million Series B".

Harvey raised $80 million at a $715 million valuation.

Anthropic expanded commercial legal protections and improved API access and enterprise terms.

Google makes Imagen 2 available to Cloud customers through Vertex AI for enterprise image generation.

Google launches AI Studio as a browser-based workspace for prototyping prompts and building with the Gemini API.

Google releases the Gemini API through Google AI Studio and Vertex AI, giving developers access to Gemini Pro.

Microsoft releases Phi-2, a 2.7-billion-parameter small language model with strong reasoning and language performance.

Valuation implied by the funding round "€385 million Series A". Converted from EUR 2,000,000,000 at 1.0757 USD per EUR (ECB reference rate on the release date).

Mistral AI completed a €385 million Series A at a reported valuation of about €2 billion.

Mistral AI launched La Plateforme, its developer platform and API service.

Mistral AI released Mixtral 8x7B, an Apache-2.0 sparse mixture-of-experts model.

Meta introduced Audiobox, a foundation research model for generating and editing speech, voices and sound effects.

Grok became available to users through the X platform.

Meta released Llama Guard, a safeguard model for classifying conversational AI inputs and outputs.

Meta launched Purple Llama, an open trust-and-safety initiative for generative AI.

Meta launched a standalone web experience for generating images with Emu.

Google Cloud announces TPU v5p, a large-scale accelerator system for training foundation models.

Gemini 1.0 Nano launches for efficient on-device AI, initially on Pixel hardware.

Gemini 1.0 Pro launches in Bard and for developers as the balanced model in the initial family.

Google DeepMind launches Gemini 1.0 in Ultra, Pro and Nano sizes as its first natively multimodal foundation-model family.

Gemini 1.0 Ultra is introduced as the largest and most capable initial Gemini model.

IBM and Meta convened the AI Alliance to advance open, safe and responsible AI innovation.

Valuation implied by the funding round "CoreWeave completes $642 million secondary share sale".

CoreWeave completed a $642 million secondary transaction that gave existing shareholders liquidity and broadened its institutional investor base.

Palantir expanded developer access to AIP and Foundry tooling through a developer-oriented tier.

IBM released governance tooling for model risk, transparency, compliance and lifecycle oversight.

Microsoft Copilot becomes generally available with commercial data protection for eligible users.

Meta released a low-latency streaming speech translation research model.

Meta released a research model that preserves vocal style and prosody in translated speech.

Meta released a more capable second version of SeamlessM4T.

DeepSeek LLM 67B Base became publicly available as part of DeepSeek's first general LLM release.

DeepSeek published its first general-purpose 7B and 67B open language models.

DeepSeek LLM 7B Base became publicly available as part of DeepSeek's first general LLM release.

DeepSeek LLM 67B Chat became publicly available as part of DeepSeek's first general LLM release.

DeepSeek LLM 7B Chat became publicly available as part of DeepSeek's first general LLM release.

Perplexity introduced PPLX 7B Online and PPLX 70B Online, language models grounded with current web search.

Amazon released a text-to-image generation and editing model through Bedrock.

Amazon released a multimodal embedding model mapping text and images into a shared space.

Google DeepMind reports that GNoME identified 2.2 million new crystal structures, including hundreds of thousands of stable candidates.

OpenAI announced Sam Altman's return as CEO and an initial board chaired by Bret Taylor.

AWS and NVIDIA expanded their partnership around GPU infrastructure, DGX Cloud, NVIDIA software and future AI supercomputing.

AWS announced its second-generation AI training accelerator with substantially higher performance.

AWS introduced resilient infrastructure for training large foundation models across thousands of accelerators.

AWS announced real-time generative-AI assistance for contact-center agents.

AWS announced configurable safeguards for foundation-model inputs and outputs.

AWS introduced an assistant for developing on AWS, troubleshooting and transforming application code.

AWS announced a new family of generative-AI assistants for work and software development.

AWS introduced an enterprise assistant that answers questions and completes tasks using company data.

AWS introduced automatic and human evaluation workflows for comparing foundation models.

Baidu fully opened ERNIE APIs to enterprise customers through AI Cloud.

Anthropic released Claude 2.1 with a 200K-token context window, lower hallucination rates, system prompts, and beta tool use.