Releases

NVIDIA introduced BioNeMo, a generative AI service for chemistry and biomolecular research.

Meta moved PyTorch into an independent foundation hosted by the Linux Foundation.

Perplexity raised approximately $3.1 million in seed financing from Elad Gil and a group of prominent AI and technology investors.

Diffusers added first-class support for Stable Diffusion, enabling local and hosted generation workflows around the newly released open model.

Hugging Face launched its enterprise platform around Private Hub, secure collaboration, governance, deployment, and organizational support.

Hugging Face launched Private Hub as a secure and compliant platform for organizations to collaborate on models, datasets, and applications.

Amazon researchers published a 20-billion-parameter multilingual sequence-to-sequence teacher model.

Baidu launched an ERNIE-powered AI art and creative-generation service.

Hugging Face released Transformer Reinforcement Learning tooling for post-training language models with supervised, preference, and reinforcement-learning methods.

Aravind Srinivas, Denis Yarats, Johnny Ho and Andy Konwinski founded Perplexity in San Francisco.

Sequoia and Index purchased shares from Notion employees at the same $10 billion valuation as the prior financing.

The AlphaFold database expands to predicted structures for nearly every catalogued protein known to science.

Midjourney released V3 as the default image model.

Baidu unveiled its sixth-generation purpose-built autonomous vehicle.

Hugging Face launched Diffusers, an open-source library providing modular pipelines for diffusion-based generative models.

Meta introduced Make-A-Scene, a multimodal generative method that gives creators scene-level control over images.

Midjourney opened its image-generation service to the public through its Discord bot.

The BigScience workshop released BLOOM, a 176-billion-parameter multilingual language model trained on the Jean Zay supercomputer.

Meta released NLLB-200, a machine-translation model covering 200 languages.

AWS introduced its generative-AI coding companion in preview.

Amazon unveiled its first fully autonomous mobile robot for safely operating around employees.

Microsoft publishes the second version of its Responsible AI Standard and supporting transparency materials.

GitHub Copilot becomes generally available to individual developers as a subscription product.

The Cerner acquisition became the foundation for Oracle Health's clinical and data-intelligence AI portfolio.

Oracle completed its acquisition of Cerner to create a major health technology and clinical-data business.