Releases

Surge expanded its expert data platform to reinforcement learning from human feedback, preference data, and advanced language-model post-training.

Krea launched a creative AI workspace centered on controllable, real-time visual generation.

Crusoe closed a $350 million Series C equity financing led by G2 Venture Partners to scale its climate-aligned computing infrastructure.

Suno was founded to make music creation accessible through generative AI.

Runway established its production initiative for films and creative projects using generative AI.

Hivemind autonomously piloted an F-16-class aircraft in testing.

Winston Weinberg and Gabriel Pereyra founded Harvey to build domain-specific generative AI for legal and professional services.

ElevenLabs' first financing valued the company at $9 million.

Mati Staniszewski and Piotr Dabkowski founded ElevenLabs to build human-like synthetic speech.

Michael Truell, Sualeh Asif, Arvid Lunnemark, and Aman Sanger founded Anysphere to build an AI-native programming environment.

Palantir introduced FedStart to help software vendors reach government customers through accredited infrastructure and deployment support.

Cohere began offering enterprise model deployment within customer-controlled cloud and on-premises environments.

Cohere introduced its Embed model family for semantic representation and retrieval.

Cohere launched a free educational curriculum covering large language models, embeddings and semantic search.

Cohere established its open-science research initiative, now known as Cohere Labs, to support collaborative machine-learning research.

Hugging Face acquired Gradio, bringing its open-source interface framework and team into the company while keeping the project open source.

EliseAI raised a $23.5 million Series B backed by Navitas Capital, JLL Spark, and other strategic real-estate investors.

Palantir unveiled MetaConstellation, a satellite-tasking and geospatial intelligence capability that coordinates space-based data with AI.

AWS introduced a no-code visual interface for generating machine-learning predictions.

Microsoft releases DeBERTa V3 with replaced-token detection and gradient-disentangled embedding sharing.

Oracle released managed time-series forecasting for business and operational signals.

Oracle released managed multivariate time-series anomaly detection.

Oracle released managed image analysis, object detection and custom vision models.

Oracle released a managed natural-language processing API for classification, entity extraction and sentiment.

Oracle released managed automatic speech recognition and transcription.

Oracle introduced a portfolio of managed AI APIs spanning language, speech, vision, anomaly detection and forecasting.

CoreWeave raised $50 million from Magnetar Capital to scale its specialized NVIDIA GPU cloud infrastructure.

Scale acquired Berlin-based SiaSearch and folded its petabyte-scale sensor-data search technology and team into Scale Nucleus.

Microsoft introduces Azure OpenAI Service, providing managed access to OpenAI models through Azure's enterprise cloud controls.

Gamma announced a $7 million seed round led by Accel.

Facebook renamed the parent company Meta Platforms to reflect its long-term focus on building the metaverse.

Facebook AI and university partners introduced Ego4D, a large egocentric video dataset and benchmark suite.

Notion raised $275 million led by Coatue Management and Sequoia Capital.

Scale moved Rapid into general availability for fast labeling experiments without data minimums.

Hugging Face launched Spaces with native Gradio support, allowing community members to host interactive machine-learning demos on the Hub.

Databricks closed a $1.6 billion Series H with participation from AWS, CapitalG and Microsoft at a $38 billion post-money valuation.

Cohere's hosted API made semantic text representations available to enterprise developers.

Cohere provided a browser playground for testing its hosted language models and generation settings.

Cohere's initial commercial platform included text classification for enterprise NLP workflows.

Index Ventures led Cohere's $40 million Series A, with Section 32, Radical Ventures and AI researchers participating.

Cohere made its hosted language-model platform available to businesses alongside its Series A financing.

Hugging Face launched Optimum to optimize Transformers models for specialized hardware and inference runtimes.

NVIDIA made its AI Enterprise software suite generally available.

The Telum announcement established a new generation of IBM infrastructure with integrated AI acceleration.

IBM unveiled Telum with on-chip AI acceleration for high-volume transactional inference.

Baidu said its second-generation Kunlun AI chip had entered mass production.

OpenAI introduced Codex, a descendant of GPT-3 that translates natural language into code.

Gamma launched in private beta with a card-based alternative to traditional slide decks.

Scale established a dedicated St. Louis operations center to develop skilled U.S. data and evaluation workforces for government programs.

DeepMind and EMBL-EBI launch a freely accessible database of AlphaFold protein structure predictions.