Releases

Databricks announced a Series J targeting $10 billion, with $8.6 billion completed at announcement, valuing the company at $62 billion.

Google DeepMind introduces Veo 2 with improved realism, physics and camera controls for video generation.

DeepSeek published its second-generation mixture-of-experts vision-language models.

Google Cloud announces Agentspace for enterprise search, conversational assistance and task-oriented agents grounded in company data.

xAI expanded Grok access beyond paid tiers to everyone on X, alongside speed and multilingual improvements.

Meta released a behavioral foundation model for controlling virtual humanoid agents.

Microsoft releases Phi-4, a 14-billion-parameter small language model specializing in complex reasoning.

Google announces Jules, an asynchronous coding agent that works on GitHub repositories and presents changes for review.

The Gemini app launches Deep Research, using long context and reasoning to investigate topics and compile reports.

Google releases experimental Gemini 2.0 Flash with native tool use, multimodal output and real-time streaming capabilities.

The final V2.5 update improved mathematics, coding, writing, file handling and web-page summarization.

xAI launched the autoregressive Aurora image-generation model on X, adding photorealistic generation and multimodal image input.

OpenAI launched the Sora video-generation product for ChatGPT Plus and Pro users, powered by Sora Turbo.

The Government of Canada announced up to C$240 million to support Cohere's Canadian AI compute capacity project.

Meta released a multilingual 70B instruction model with performance comparable to larger Llama 3.1 models.

Perplexity expanded its publisher program with 15 additional media organizations.

Microsoft begins previewing Copilot Vision, allowing Copilot to discuss and assist with shared browsing content.

Google releases PaliGemma 2, expanding the open vision-language family with new model sizes and resolutions.

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Pro, a higher-tier subscription with expanded access to advanced models.

OpenAI released the full o1 reasoning model in ChatGPT and announced related API improvements.

AWS introduced a marketplace for discovering and deploying specialized models through Bedrock.

Microsoft Research introduces BioEmu for efficiently sampling diverse protein conformational ensembles.

Google DeepMind introduces Genie 2, capable of generating diverse playable 3D environments from a prompt image.

AWS announced SageMaker Unified Studio as part of a unified data, analytics and AI development experience.

AWS introduced managed generative-AI extraction of structured insights from multimodal content.

AWS launched Trn2 instances and UltraServers for training and serving large foundation models.

AWS released its first Nova video-generation model.

AWS released its Nova image-generation and editing model.

AWS released a capable multimodal Nova model for enterprise and agentic workloads.

AWS released a low-cost multimodal Nova model through Amazon Bedrock.

AWS released the text-only low-latency Nova model through Amazon Bedrock.

Anthropic reduced Claude 3.5 Haiku pricing to $0.80 per million input tokens and $4 per million output tokens.

Cohere introduced Rerank 3.5 with stronger reasoning and multilingual retrieval over complex enterprise data.

Amazon released a faster and more memory-efficient zero-shot forecasting model family.

Hugging Face released SmolVLM, a compact 2B vision-language model designed to run with very low memory.

Databricks introduced code-first Custom Agents for building, deploying and evaluating production agent systems using any LLM.

Hugging Face detailed a new storage and transfer architecture using Xet’s content-defined chunking to accelerate large repository operations.

Anthropic introduced and open-sourced MCP, its specification, SDKs, local Claude Desktop support, and reference servers.

Amazon committed an additional $4 billion to Anthropic, bringing its total investment to $8 billion and naming AWS Anthropic's primary training partner.

Microsoft begins releasing Recall to Windows Insiders on supported Copilot+ PCs after redesigning security and privacy controls.

Amazon made a new $4 billion investment in Anthropic, bringing its total investment to $8 billion and naming AWS the primary cloud and training partner.

Microsoft launches Azure AI Agent Service in preview for building and managing enterprise AI agents.

Microsoft introduces Azure AI Foundry as a unified platform for developing, evaluating, deploying and governing AI applications and agents.

Perplexity launched an AI shopping experience with product cards, recommendations, visual search and merchant integrations.

Mistral AI upgraded Le Chat with web search, canvas, image generation and richer document-understanding features.

Mistral AI released Pixtral Large, a 124B multimodal model for image and document understanding.

DeepSeek released JanusFlow using rectified flow for image generation.

A $650 million secondary share transaction valued CoreWeave at approximately $23 billion ahead of its public offering.

Baidu launched a no-code platform for generating applications from natural language.

Perplexity announced an experiment with sponsored follow-up questions while stating that advertising would not alter answer content.

Mistral AI launched a moderation API for safety classification and content policy enforcement.

Mistral AI launched an asynchronous Batch API for high-volume model inference.

Scale released Defense Llama, a Llama 3-based model fine-tuned for controlled U.S. national-security use cases inside Scale Donovan.

xAI opened public API access to Grok foundation models with OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible interfaces.

Anthropic released Claude 3.5 Haiku as a faster model with substantially improved intelligence and coding performance.

Moonshot disclosed k0-math as an experimental reinforcement-learning model for mathematical reasoning.

Hugging Face released the second generation of its 135M, 360M, and 1.7B compact language models with stronger instruction following.

Perplexity launched a dedicated sourced hub for the 2024 United States election.

OpenAI launched web search in ChatGPT with timely answers and source links.

Oracle introduced a generative-AI clinical workflow and documentation agent.

GitHub introduces Spark, an AI-native tool for building application experiences from natural language.

Cohere Labs released Aya Expanse 32B as the larger Aya Expanse multilingual model.

Cohere Labs released Aya Expanse 8B with improved multilingual generation across 23 languages.

Gradio 5 introduced redesigned application theming, stronger security defaults, and improved AI app development workflows.

Hugging Face launched HUGS, optimized zero-configuration deployment containers for open generative models.

Anthropic launched computer use in public beta, allowing developers to direct Claude to operate graphical computer interfaces.

Anthropic released an upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet with major coding and tool-use improvements.

IBM released its Granite 3.0 8B model with enterprise and agentic capabilities under Apache 2.0.

IBM released its compact Granite 3.0 2B enterprise language model under Apache 2.0.

Dow Jones and the New York Post sued Perplexity, alleging copyright and trademark violations involving publisher content.

IBM released Docling for converting complex business documents into structured AI-ready formats.

DeepSeek released Janus 1.3B for multimodal understanding and image generation.

DeepSeek introduced the Janus family for unified multimodal understanding and generation.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.