Releases

Meta released research on a multimodal language model that freely mixes text and speech.

Perplexity launched Spaces and Internal Knowledge Search for organizing research and searching company files alongside the web.

Suno launched Scenes for creating soundtracks from photos and videos.

Mistral AI launched the Ministral 3B and 8B models for edge, on-device and local use.

Decagon raised a $65 million Series B led by Bain Capital Ventures, bringing total funding to $100 million.

Perplexity introduced dedicated finance capabilities for stocks, company earnings and market research.

Anthropic updated its Responsible Scaling Policy with revised capability thresholds, safety-case processes, and governance measures.

CoreWeave secured a $650 million revolving credit facility from a syndicate of major banks to support global expansion.

Amazon introduced generative-AI shopping guides that summarize category information and organize product recommendations.

Anthropic launched asynchronous batch processing for large volumes of Claude API requests.

Sierra launched full-duplex voice capabilities for customer-facing AI agents.

Meta introduced foundation models for video generation, personalized video, editing and synchronized audio.

OpenAI introduced Canvas, a collaborative interface for writing and coding projects in ChatGPT.

Black Forest Labs launched its first-party API for direct access to hosted FLUX models.

Black Forest Labs released FLUX1.1 [pro] with improved image quality, prompt adherence, and generation speed.

OpenAI closed a $6.6 billion funding round at a $157 billion post-money valuation.

Rogo reported 2.42 times the accuracy of ChatGPT on Patronus AI's FinanceBench evaluation.

Rogo reported partnerships and deployments with 25 investment banks, private-equity firms, and hedge funds.

Rogo reported that it had doubled headcount to approximately 30 employees.

Rogo raised an $18.5 million Series A led by Khosla Ventures, bringing disclosed funding to $26 million.

Speak launched Live Roleplays, an interactive practice format for real-world conversations with dynamic AI responses.

The LeRobot community introduced the SO-100, a low-cost open robot arm design for data collection and imitation learning.

OpenAI launched the Realtime API public beta for low-latency multimodal experiences.

Baidu had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $36.9 billion as of Sep 30, 2024 (NASDAQ: BIDU), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

IBM had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $203.6 billion as of Sep 30, 2024 (NYSE: IBM), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Palantir had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $83.3 billion as of Sep 30, 2024 (NASDAQ: PLTR), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Meta had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $1.448 trillion as of Sep 30, 2024 (NASDAQ: META), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Amazon had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $1.956 trillion as of Sep 30, 2024 (NASDAQ: AMZN), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Alphabet had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $2.049 trillion as of Sep 30, 2024 (NASDAQ: GOOGL), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Microsoft had a public equity market capitalization of approximately $3.198 trillion as of Sep 30, 2024 (NASDAQ: MSFT), per StockAnalysis period-end data.

Meta published improved SAM 2.1 checkpoints and developer tooling.

Oracle released a managed retrieval-augmented generation and enterprise-agent service.

Meta released a 90B multimodal model for image understanding.

Meta released an 11B multimodal model for image understanding.

Meta released a compact 1B text model for on-device use.

Meta released a compact 3B text model for on-device use.

OpenAI began expanding ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode with more natural real-time audio conversations.

Palantir expanded its Maven Smart System work with the U.S. government under a five-year agreement with a potential value up to $100 million.

Mercor raised a $30 million Series A led by Benchmark.

Anthropic introduced Contextual Retrieval, combining contextual embeddings and BM25 to improve retrieval-augmented generation.

fal reported generating 50 million images, videos, or audio streams per day.

fal reported 500,000 developers on its generative-media platform.

fal raised a $14 million Series A led by Kindred Ventures.

fal disclosed a $9 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz as part of $23 million in seed and Series A funding.

Modal added secure tunnels and execution improvements for sandbox workloads.

Modal added improved object-storage bucket mounting for data-intensive jobs.

Modal expanded secret management for applications and integrations.

Modal expanded queue-based communication between serverless functions.

Modal expanded its persistent key-value storage capabilities.

Modal improved persistent volume performance and reliability.