Releases

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.

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.

The first Copilot+ PCs become generally available from Microsoft and hardware partners.

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

DeepSeek upgraded its coding API to the Coder V2 generation.

Microsoft releases Florence-2, a unified prompt-based vision model for captioning, grounding, detection and segmentation.

Hugging Face acquired Argilla, an open-source platform for human and synthetic data curation and model feedback.

Microsoft changes Recall from broad Copilot+ PC availability to a Windows Insider preview while strengthening security and privacy protections.

Databricks introduced Apps for building and deploying secure data and AI applications directly on the platform.

Databricks introduced AI/BI, pairing AI-assisted dashboards with Genie conversational analytics built on a compound AI system.

Databricks introduced MLflow Tracing for end-to-end observability and debugging of generative-AI applications and agents.

Databricks launched a framework for authoring, evaluating, deploying and monitoring production-quality compound AI systems.

Oracle and Google Cloud announced Database@Google Cloud and integration paths to Vertex AI and Gemini.

Mistral AI raised €600 million in equity and debt at a reported €5.8 billion valuation.

OpenAI and Apple announced integration of ChatGPT into iOS, iPadOS, and macOS experiences.

Forbes alleged that Perplexity had reproduced reporting without adequate attribution, beginning a broader public dispute over publisher content use.

Mistral AI introduced self-service fine-tuning through La Plateforme and released customization tooling.

Databricks agreed to acquire Tabular, founded by the creators of Apache Iceberg, to advance interoperability between Delta Lake and Iceberg.

Matt Garman succeeded Adam Selipsky as chief executive officer of Amazon Web Services.

Hugging Face released FineWeb-Edu, an educationally filtered subset that showed strong gains for small-model pretraining.

NVIDIA made ACE generative AI microservices generally available for cloud-based digital-human applications.

Oracle made its voice-first clinical assistant available for healthcare workflows.

DeepSeek published its first open theorem-proving model for Lean 4.

DeepSeek introduced its formal theorem-proving model research line.

Hugging Face released FineWeb, a 15-trillion-token filtered and deduplicated English web dataset for language-model pretraining.

Perplexity launched Pages for turning research into structured, visually formatted and shareable articles.

Anthropic made tool use generally available across the Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Vertex AI.

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Edu for universities, with enterprise-grade controls and access to GPT-4o.

Scale made its model-evaluation platform generally available for model developers, enterprises, and public-sector organizations.

Scale launched expert-evaluated leaderboards for coding, instruction following, mathematics, and multilinguality using private, contamination-resistant prompt sets.

Mistral AI released Codestral, its first generative model specialized for code, under the Mistral AI Non-Production License.

xAI raised $6 billion from investors including Valor Equity Partners, Vy Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital and Fidelity; Reuters reported a $24 billion post-money valuation.

Cohere Labs released the open Aya 23 35B multilingual model spanning 23 languages.

Cohere Labs released the open Aya 23 8B multilingual model spanning 23 languages.

Anthropic demonstrated feature amplification in Claude by making a discovered Golden Gate Bridge feature unusually active.

IBM released Granite Code models from 3B to 34B parameters under a permissive open-source license.

Scale closed a $1 billion primary-and-secondary financing led by Accel at a $13.8 billion valuation.

Microsoft and Hugging Face expanded their collaboration around open models, Azure AI, and enterprise deployment experiences.

Microsoft introduces Phi-3 Vision, a 4.2-billion-parameter multimodal model for image, chart, graph and table reasoning.

Microsoft expands Phi-3 with 7B Small and 14B Medium open models.

Microsoft releases Phi-3 Medium for higher-capability small-model workloads.

Anthropic appointed Krishna Rao as Chief Financial Officer.

Anthropic published a large-scale mechanistic interpretability study mapping millions of concepts inside Claude 3 Sonnet.

Hugging Face launched LeRobot to bring open models, datasets, policies, and reproducible tooling to real-world robotics.

Microsoft Research introduces Aurora, a foundation model for weather and atmospheric forecasting across multiple environmental domains.

Microsoft introduces Phi Silica, an on-device small language model optimized for Windows neural processing units.

Microsoft announces Recall, an on-device searchable visual history for Copilot+ PCs with user privacy controls.

Microsoft introduces Copilot+ PCs with neural processing units and a new generation of on-device AI experiences.

DeepSeek upgraded deepseek-chat with improved instruction following, JSON output and RAG performance.

CoreWeave signed a $7.5 billion debt facility led by Blackstone and Magnetar to expand its contracted high-performance compute fleet.

Meta introduced an early-fusion multimodal foundation model capable of generating and reasoning over interleaved text and images.

Baidu introduced its Autonomous Driving Foundation Model for Level 4 driving systems.

Grok-1.5 rolled out to Grok users on X.

Anthropic appointed Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger as Chief Product Officer.

Google launches AI Overviews in the United States, integrating generative summaries and supporting web links into Search.

Google introduces Imagen 3 with improved photorealism, prompt understanding and text rendering.

Google announces Trillium, its sixth-generation TPU, with major gains in compute performance and energy efficiency.

Google DeepMind demonstrates Project Astra, a real-time multimodal assistant prototype that perceives and reasons across continuous context.

Google DeepMind introduces Veo, a high-definition generative video model with cinematic controls.

Google releases PaliGemma, an open vision-language model for image-text tasks.

Google expands Gemini 1.5 Pro to a two-million-token context window in private preview.

Google introduces Gemini 1.5 Flash, a fast and efficient multimodal model with a one-million-token context window.

Anthropic expanded Claude.ai and its mobile app to users and businesses across Europe.

OpenAI released GPT-4o, an omni model designed for real-time reasoning across audio, vision, and text.

CoreWeave established its European headquarters in London and announced a $1.25 billion regional infrastructure investment plan.

Google DeepMind launches AlphaFold Server for free research access to AlphaFold 3 predictions.

Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs introduce AlphaFold 3 for predicting structures and interactions across biomolecules.

Red Hat expanded OpenShift AI as the hybrid-cloud operating layer for model development and serving.

Red Hat and IBM introduced InstructLab for community-driven model skills and alignment.

Red Hat introduced RHEL AI as a foundation-model platform for developing, testing and running open models.

DeepSeek opened an OpenAI-compatible API for its chat and coding models.

Oracle announced a generative coding assistant optimized for Java, SQL and OCI development.

DeepSeek published DeepSeek-V2 base and chat weights with 128K context.

DeepSeek introduced its efficient second-generation mixture-of-experts architecture.

Oracle expanded natural-language-to-SQL and retrieval capabilities for Autonomous Database.

Oracle repositioned its flagship database around integrated AI for enterprise data.

Oracle released native vector generation, indexing and semantic similarity search alongside SQL.

Oracle released Database 23ai with integrated vector search and AI-focused developer capabilities.

CoreWeave raised $1.1 billion in Series C funding led by Coatue to expand its AI cloud across products and geographies.

Anthropic launched its first native Claude application for iOS.

Anthropic launched the Claude Team plan for collaborative organizational use.

Amazon released its second-generation multilingual text embedding model through Bedrock.

AWS folded Amazon CodeWhisperer into Amazon Q Developer while preserving its coding-assistance capabilities.

AWS made its software-development assistant generally available and incorporated CodeWhisperer capabilities.

AWS made its enterprise generative-AI assistant generally available.

GitHub opens a technical preview of Copilot Workspace, an agentic environment for moving from issues to plans and implementations.

IBM agreed to acquire HashiCorp to expand hybrid-cloud automation for infrastructure supporting generative AI.

NVIDIA entered a definitive agreement to acquire AI workload orchestration provider Run:ai.

Perplexity raised $62.7 million in a Series B extension led by Daniel Gross, taking its valuation above $1 billion.

Perplexity launched Enterprise Pro, its first business subscription with organizational search, security and data controls.

AWS made configurable Bedrock safety controls generally available.

Microsoft releases Phi-3 Mini, a 3.8-billion-parameter model designed for capable language and reasoning on constrained devices.

Meta and World Resources Institute released global high-resolution canopy-height maps built with DINOv2.

Meta released the Llama 3-based update to its open safeguard model.

Meta released the 8B Llama 3 pretrained and instruction-tuned models.