Releases

DeepSeek introduced its 671B-parameter V3 mixture-of-experts architecture.

xAI closed a $6 billion Series C backed by major institutional and sovereign investors; regulatory reporting indicated an approximately $45 billion post-money valuation.

Answer.AI and Hugging Face released ModernBERT, a modernized encoder-only model family for retrieval and classification workloads.

Rogo integrated S&P Capital IQ data into AI-powered financial workflows.

ElevenLabs introduced Flash, an ultra-low-latency model for conversational AI.

IBM released open embedding models for enterprise retrieval and semantic search.

IBM expanded Granite with improved language, embedding and safety models.

Perplexity closed a $500 million financing led by IVP at a $9 billion valuation.

Perplexity acquired Carbon, a startup specializing in connecting AI systems to enterprise data sources; terms were not disclosed.

Anthropic and Redwood Research published evidence of alignment-faking behavior in a controlled Claude 3 Opus experiment.

Databricks announced a Series J targeting $10 billion, with $8.6 billion completed at announcement, valuing the company at $62 billion.

Google DeepMind introduces Veo 2 with improved realism, physics and camera controls for video generation.

DeepSeek published its second-generation mixture-of-experts vision-language models.

Google Cloud announces Agentspace for enterprise search, conversational assistance and task-oriented agents grounded in company data.

Crusoe raised $600 million in a Series D led by Founders Fund to expand AI data centers and Crusoe Cloud.

Crusoe announced general availability of Crusoe Cloud with managed services and enterprise support for model training, fine-tuning and inference.

xAI expanded Grok access beyond paid tiers to everyone on X, alongside speed and multilingual improvements.

Meta released a behavioral foundation model for controlling virtual humanoid agents.

Microsoft releases Phi-4, a 14-billion-parameter small language model specializing in complex reasoning.

Google announces Jules, an asynchronous coding agent that works on GitHub repositories and presents changes for review.

The Gemini app launches Deep Research, using long context and reasoning to investigate topics and compile reports.

Google releases experimental Gemini 2.0 Flash with native tool use, multimodal output and real-time streaming capabilities.

Speak reported more than 200 Speak for Business customers and an average employee adoption rate of 85%.

Speak reported delivering 25 million personalized lessons during 2024.

Speak reported that learners had spoken one billion sentences in the app during 2024.