Releases

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.

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.

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.

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.