Releases

Oracle expanded HeatWave from analytics and AutoML into an integrated generative-AI platform.

Oracle released automated in-database vector creation, storage and retrieval for HeatWave.

Oracle released in-database LLMs, automated vector storage and natural-language chat in HeatWave.

Hugging Face refreshed the Open LLM Leaderboard with a harder, contamination-resistant suite and new scoring methodology.

Anthropic expanded Claude availability for US government and intelligence-community customers through AWS.

EvolutionaryScale, founded by former Meta researchers, released ESM-3, a generative protein model originating from Meta's ESM program.

Anthropic launched Projects for organizing chats, knowledge, and collaboration around sustained work.

Major record labels filed copyright litigation concerning Suno's training practices.

Synthesia introduced a redesigned enterprise video communications platform with personal avatars, AI screen recording, knowledge-to-video tools, and interactive-video groundwork.

Investigations alleged that Perplexity accessed publisher content despite robots.txt restrictions; Perplexity disputed aspects of the reporting.

Anthropic introduced Artifacts, a side-by-side workspace for creating and iterating on Claude-generated content.

Anthropic released Claude 3.5 Sonnet with stronger reasoning, coding, writing, and vision performance.

HeyGen reported more than 40,000 paying business customers worldwide.

HeyGen raised a $60 million Series A led by Benchmark, with participation from Thrive Capital, BOND, and other investors.

HeyGen reported growing from $1 million to more than $35 million in annual recurring revenue in just over a year.

Ilya Sutskever, Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy announced SSI as a straight-shot research lab with one goal and one planned product: safe superintelligence.

Midjourney expanded shared creation rooms and room visibility on the web.

Speak reported more than 10 million learners across more than 40 countries.

Speak raised a $20 million Series B-3 led by Buckley Ventures, bringing total funding to $84 million.

Decagon publicly launched its generative-AI customer-support platform for enterprises.

Decagon raised a $30 million Series A led by Accel.

Decagon disclosed a $5 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz as it emerged from stealth.

Genspark launched an agentic search engine that generated synthesized Sparkpages and autonomous research experiences.

The first Copilot+ PCs become generally available from Microsoft and hardware partners.

Fireworks released an open-weight Llama 3-based function-calling model supporting multi-turn and parallel tool execution.