Releases

Hugging Face released compact fully open language models at 135M, 360M, and 1.7B parameter scales.

Mistral AI released Codestral Mamba, an open code model using the Mamba 2 architecture.

Mistral AI released Mathstral 7B, an open model specialized for mathematical reasoning.

Anthropic launched the native Claude application for Android.

Amazon broadly launched its generative-AI shopping assistant in the United States after an earlier beta.

Fireworks AI raised a $52 million Series B led by Sequoia Capital, bringing total funding to $77 million.

AWS introduced a visual workflow builder for generative-AI applications.

AWS introduced prompt creation, versioning, testing and sharing capabilities.

Skild AI raised a $300 million Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Coatue, SoftBank Group and Bezos Expeditions.

Skild AI emerged from stealth and described its unified robotics foundation model designed to generalize across tasks and robot hardware.

Perplexity collaborated with Amazon Web Services to launch and scale Enterprise Pro.

Perplexity upgraded Pro Search for more advanced problem-solving, multi-step reasoning and research.

Meta introduced a research pipeline for generating high-quality 3D assets with text and texture control.

ElevenLabs launched Voice Isolator for separating speech from background audio.

Baidu released a faster and more capable version of ERNIE 4.0.

Baidu upgraded its AI coding assistant and repositioned it for enterprise and developer workflows.

DeepSeek updated its chat model with stronger code, math, reasoning and role-play performance.

Amazon hired Adept cofounder David Luan and members of the team while licensing Adept's agent technology.

Clay reported that its team had grown from under ten at launch to more than 50 employees.

Clay reported more than 100,000 users and over 2,500 customers.

Clay raised a $46 million Series B led by Meritech Capital.

Perplexity completed a reported financing round of roughly $250 million at a $3 billion valuation, including strategic backing from SoftBank.

Google releases Gemma 2, led by a 27B model with improved performance and efficiency.

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.

Runway released Gen-3 Alpha with improved fidelity, motion, consistency, and controls.

DeepSeek released 16B and 236B mixture-of-experts coding models with 128K context.