Releases

xAI launched PromptIDE for prompt engineering and interpretability research on Grok-1.

OpenAI introduced user-configurable GPTs for creating tailored versions of ChatGPT.

OpenAI launched the Assistants API beta with Code Interpreter, Retrieval, and function calling.

OpenAI announced GPT-4 Turbo with a 128K context window, newer knowledge, and lower API pricing.

xAI announced Grok and its first public model after two months of training, with real-time knowledge through X.

Base and instruction-tuned DeepSeek Coder checkpoints were published for code completion and generation.

DeepSeek released its first open code-model family, spanning 1B to 33B parameters and trained on two trillion tokens.

Cohere introduced its third-generation embedding models with stronger multilingual retrieval and compression options.

Together introduced its optimized inference engine across serverless endpoints and dedicated model deployments.

ElevenLabs released speech-to-speech voice transformation capabilities.

Moonshot exposed a 128K-context text model through its API.

Moonshot exposed a 32K-context text model through its API.

Moonshot introduced developer API access to its language models.

Moonshot exposed an 8K-context text model through its API.

Baidu began charging a subscription for public access to ERNIE 4.0 through ERNIE Bot.

DeepSeek launched its web conversational assistant.

DeepSeek began offering web-based access to its models through the DeepSeek Chat service.

Cohere released third-generation English and multilingual reranking models for enterprise search.

Pollen Robotics launched Reachy 2, an open-source humanoid robot platform later brought into Hugging Face through its acquisition of Pollen.

Hugging Face released a production-grade server for serving text embedding and reranking models.

Microsoft 365 Copilot becomes generally available to enterprise customers across productivity applications and Microsoft 365 Chat.

Google agrees to invest up to $2 billion in Anthropic, deepening a strategic AI partnership that also includes Google Cloud infrastructure.

Google agreed to invest up to $2 billion in Anthropic, including $500 million upfront and an additional $1.5 billion over time.

IBM released generative coding assistants for Red Hat Ansible automation and mainframe application modernization.

Hugging Face H4 released an improved Zephyr 7B beta model trained on expanded public and synthetic preference data.

Meta introduced ExecuTorch, an open-source framework for efficient on-device PyTorch inference.

Upper90 committed $200 million in asset-backed financing for additional GPUs as Crusoe expanded H100, A100 and L40S cloud capacity.

Databricks acquired enterprise data replication company Arcion to make operational data available for analytics and AI.

IBM Research published a memory-centric neural inference chip designed for high energy efficiency.

NVIDIA publicly released its open-source TensorRT-LLM library for optimized large-model inference.

OpenAI made DALL-E 3 available to ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise users.

Baidu launched ERNIE 4.0 with upgraded comprehension, reasoning, generation and memory.

Microsoft makes Azure AI Content Safety generally available for detecting harmful content in text and images.

Anysphere raised an $8 million seed round led by the OpenAI Startup Fund to build Cursor.

Scheduled and cron-triggered functions became generally available.

HTTP endpoints backed by autoscaling Modal functions became generally available.

Modal's programmatic container image system became generally available.

Versioned Modal application deployments became generally available.

Modal's Python-first SDK and developer workflow reached general availability.

Serverless Modal functions became generally available with elastic scaling.

Modal made serverless model deployment and inference generally available.

Modal made autoscaling CPU and GPU compute generally available as part of its cloud launch.

Modal announced a $16 million Series A, bringing total capital raised to $23 million.

Modal launched its serverless cloud platform into general availability.

The web-based Kimi conversational assistant became publicly available with long-context document capabilities.

Moonshot launched Kimi as a long-context AI assistant for the Chinese market.

Perplexity launched pplx-api with hosted access to its PPLX chat models.

Perplexity released open-weight PPLX 7B Chat and PPLX 70B Chat models.

Microsoft Research releases AutoGen, a framework for building applications with conversing and collaborating AI agents.

Midjourney introduced its web-based Imagine creation interface.

Midjourney began offering creation through its own web application to eligible existing users.

ElevenLabs launched automated voice-preserving dubbing across languages.

IBM made its first 13B Granite enterprise language models available through watsonx.ai.

IBM released the first enterprise-focused Granite language and code models in watsonx.

Hugging Face H4 released an aligned 7B chat model trained with distilled direct preference optimization.

Amazon released Titan Text Express for general text-generation workloads through Bedrock.

Amazon released its lower-cost Titan text-generation model through Bedrock.

AWS launched managed retrieval-augmented generation for grounding foundation models in private data.

AWS made Amazon Bedrock generally available with managed access to Amazon and third-party foundation models.

Microsoft and Nuance introduce DAX Copilot, combining ambient clinical intelligence with generative AI for automated documentation.

Claude became available to all Amazon Bedrock customers through the Anthropic-AWS partnership.

Databricks introduced pay-per-token APIs and provisioned throughput for serving curated open foundation models.

Mistral AI released Mistral 7B, its first open-weight language model, under the Apache 2.0 license.

Meta and EssilorLuxottica launched the second-generation Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses with voice and AI capabilities.

Meta introduced Emu as the image-generation technology powering new generative AI experiences.

Meta introduced Meta AI, a conversational assistant for WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram.

Microsoft begins rolling out Copilot in Windows as part of a Windows 11 feature update.

Glean introduced a platform for enterprises to build custom generative AI applications, agents and assistants grounded in company data.

Amazon agreed to invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic, with AWS becoming Anthropic's primary cloud provider and Trainium and Inferentia used for model development.

Amazon made an initial $1.25 billion investment in Anthropic under its broader commitment of up to $4 billion.

Amazon agreed to invest up to $4 billion and make AWS Anthropic's primary cloud provider for mission-critical workloads.

Microsoft announces a unified Microsoft Copilot experience across Windows, web, Edge and Microsoft 365.

SambaNova introduced its fourth-generation SN40L reconfigurable dataflow system for enterprise generative AI workloads.

Oracle began embedding generative-AI capabilities into Fusion Cloud application workflows.

Oracle introduced large RDMA-connected NVIDIA GPU clusters for distributed model training.

Google DeepMind publishes AlphaMissense predictions for the effects of millions of human missense variants.

Anthropic disclosed its Long-Term Benefit Trust governance structure, designed to protect the public-benefit mission as the company scales.

Anthropic published its first Responsible Scaling Policy, introducing AI Safety Levels and deployment safeguards tied to model capability.

Oracle announced a voice-first generative-AI assistant for clinical documentation and workflows.

Databricks raised more than $500 million in Series I financing at a $43 billion valuation.

Anthropic and Boston Consulting Group partnered to help enterprise clients deploy Claude responsibly.

Microsoft Research releases Phi-1.5, a compact language model trained primarily on synthetic textbook-quality data.

Anthropic launched Claude Pro, a paid individual subscription with higher usage limits and priority access.

Baidu launched tools for fine-tuning and managing custom enterprise foundation models.

Baidu launched low-code tools for building enterprise generative-AI applications.

Baidu opened ERNIE Bot broadly after completing required generative-AI filings.

Google DeepMind and Google Cloud introduce SynthID for imperceptibly watermarking and identifying AI-generated images.

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Enterprise with enterprise security, privacy, administration, and higher-capacity access.

OpenAI named Scale a preferred partner for enterprise fine-tuning of GPT-3.5, combining Scale’s data engine with OpenAI models.

Hugging Face released Candle, a minimalist Rust framework for fast and portable machine learning.

Hugging Face raised $235 million in a Series D led by Salesforce Ventures at a $4.5 billion post-money valuation, with participation from major cloud and semiconductor companies.

Meta released code-specialized Llama models for generation, completion and instruction following.

ElevenLabs released Multilingual v2 for nearly 30 languages and moved its platform out of beta.

Hugging Face released IDEFICS, an 80B open-access visual-language model supporting sequences of images and text.

Meta released SeamlessM4T for multilingual speech-to-speech, speech-to-text, text-to-speech and text translation.

xAI completed Grok-0, a 33-billion-parameter research prototype that preceded the first public Grok model.

SK Telecom invested an additional $100 million in Anthropic and formed a partnership to build a multilingual model for telecommunications.

Scale provided evaluation infrastructure for the White House-supported Generative Red Team Challenge at DEF CON 31, testing frontier models with thousands of participants.

Hugging Face launched managed training and deployment offerings in AWS Marketplace, simplifying enterprise procurement and use on AWS.

Anthropic released Claude Instant 1.2 through its API with gains in reasoning, coding, multilingual performance, and safety.