Releases

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.

Synthesia reported that more than 200,000 people had used its avatars to create over 18 million video presentations.

Synthesia released EXPRESS-1, its fourth-generation avatar model for context-aware voice, facial expression, gaze, and body language.

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

Together AI partnered with Meta to offer Llama 3 models for high-performance inference and fine-tuning at launch.

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.