Releases

CoreWeave acquired Conductor Technologies and its cloud task-management and burst-rendering platform, extending the cloud into end-to-end VFX and animation workflows.

Microsoft announces a multiyear, multibillion-dollar extension of its OpenAI partnership covering supercomputing, model deployment and Azure commercialization.

OpenAI and Microsoft announced a multiyear, multibillion-dollar extension of their partnership, including Azure supercomputing investment and exclusive cloud-provider status.

Microsoft makes Azure OpenAI Service generally available with enterprise access to OpenAI models through Azure.

The release of Eleven v1 established ElevenLabs' proprietary audio-model family.

ElevenLabs launched its browser-based text-to-speech product for expressive synthetic speech.

ElevenLabs launched its first text-to-speech model and opened the platform in beta.

Scale announced a restructuring that reduced its employee workforce by roughly 20 percent after expanding too quickly during the prior growth cycle.

OpenEvidence launched an AI medical information platform for physicians, providing cited answers grounded in medical journals and clinical data.

Glean launched a conversational generative AI assistant grounded in enterprise knowledge and permissions.

Replit expanded integrated storage and application database capabilities.

Replit expanded managed deployment and application hosting.

Shield AI demonstrated autonomous air-combat maneuvering and dogfighting capabilities.

Cursor introduced predictive Tab completion and next-action editing.

Cursor introduced repository-aware conversational coding.

Cursor introduced natural-language inline code editing.

Palantir introduced defense-focused AIP capabilities for mission workflows.

AIP Automations became available for event-driven operational and AI workflows.

AIP Assist became part of Palantir's generative-AI workflow suite.

AIP Logic became available for building governed AI functions and agentic workflows.

Cohere added governed connectors to ground generative applications in enterprise repositories and data systems.

Cohere introduced a conversational Chat API that evolved to support RAG, citations, tools and structured outputs.

Scale launched Outlier to connect subject-matter experts with generative-AI training and evaluation projects.

Hugging Face expanded its organization offering with team and enterprise plans for private repositories, access control, governance, and support.

NVIDIA market capitalisation at end of calendar year 2022, down 51% from the prior year amid a broader semiconductor and tech sector downturn.

Google Research presents Med-PaLM, adapting PaLM to medical question answering and clinical knowledge benchmarks.

Anthropic published Constitutional AI, a method for training a harmless assistant through AI feedback guided by explicit principles.

OpenAI released text-embedding-ada-002, replacing multiple earlier embedding models with a more capable and lower-cost model.

Hugging Face released Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning tools for adapting large models with methods such as LoRA.

Perplexity launched its citation-first conversational answer engine for real-time web search.

Midjourney and Spellbrush launched the Niji model collaboration focused on anime and illustration.

Magnetar backed CoreWeave with a $100 million strategic investment to expand GPU capacity for AI, machine learning, and visual-computing customers.

OpenAI launched ChatGPT as a conversational research preview.

Harvey raised a $5 million seed round led by the OpenAI Startup Fund.

Speak raised a $27 million Series B led by the OpenAI Startup Fund, with participation from Founders Fund and existing investors.

Speak reported nearly 100,000 paying subscribers and double-digit millions of dollars in annual recurring revenue.

Meta withdrew the public Galactica demo after criticism over unreliable and misleading generated scientific content.

Meta AI released a research demo of Galactica, a large language model trained on scientific knowledge.

Amazon introduced an AI and computer-vision system able to identify and handle individual products.

BigScience released BLOOMZ and mT0, instruction-finetuned multilingual models derived from BLOOM and the xP3 task collection.

Midjourney released V4 with major improvements in realism, artistic coherence, and detail.

Harvey launched its conversational legal assistant for research, drafting, and analysis.

Cohere released its second-generation multilingual embedding model for semantic search across more than 100 languages.

The BigCode project released The Stack, a large permissively licensed source-code dataset with tools for governance and opt-out.

Meta AI published hundreds of millions of predicted metagenomic protein structures with ESMFold.

Replit launched Ghostwriter with AI completion, generation, transformation, and explanation tools.

Cohere established its Rerank family of cross-encoder relevance models for search pipelines.

Cohere made relevance reranking available through a dedicated API endpoint requiring only a small search-stack integration.

Cohere introduced a multilingual cross-encoder Rerank endpoint for improving keyword and semantic search results.

Meta released EnCodec, a neural audio codec for high-fidelity compression.

IBM Research disclosed an AI accelerator built for efficient enterprise inference.

MLflow 2.0 expanded evaluation, pipelines and deployment workflows for production machine learning.

Microsoft announces Designer, an AI-powered graphic-design application using generative image technology.

AWS launched Trainium-powered EC2 instances for high-performance deep-learning training.

Google Research introduces AudioLM for generating long-term coherent, high-fidelity audio from discrete representations.

Hugging Face launched managed, autoscaling dedicated endpoints for deploying models from the Hub.

Meta open-sourced AITemplate, a Python framework that transforms neural networks into optimized GPU code.

Hugging Face released Text Generation Inference, a production server optimized for large-language-model generation.

Meta presented Make-A-Video, a system for generating short videos from text prompts.

OpenAI removed the DALL-E beta waitlist and expanded access to new users.

OpenAI released Whisper, a multilingual speech-recognition model, together with model weights and inference code.

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

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

HeyGen, then known as Movio, launched its web application for generating avatar-led videos.

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.

Crusoe began operating its AI-focused GPU cloud in mid-2022 with NVIDIA A100 infrastructure in a modular Montana data center.

Hugging Face launched Evaluate as a unified framework for model and dataset evaluation.

Microsoft releases the Responsible AI Dashboard, combining fairness, interpretability, error analysis and causal tools in one interface.

Google Research introduces Imagen, a text-to-image diffusion model emphasizing photorealism and language understanding.

Hugging Face raised $100 million in Series C funding led by Lux Capital at a reported $2 billion post-money valuation.

Meta released the Open Pretrained Transformer family and provided OPT-175B access to researchers.

Baidu released an inference and deployment toolkit for AI models.

Anthropic raised $580 million to build steerable, interpretable, and robust AI systems and expand its research infrastructure.

Modal raised $7 million in seed financing to build its serverless cloud platform.

OpenAI introduced DALL-E 2 with higher-resolution image generation and editing capabilities.

IBM introduced z16 with Telum-powered real-time AI inference for mission-critical transactions.

Google Research introduces the 540-billion-parameter Pathways Language Model and reports strong few-shot performance across hundreds of tasks.

Midjourney released its second-generation image model.