Releases

Meta released the 70B Llama 3 pretrained and instruction-tuned models.

Hugging Face released IDEFICS2, an 8B visual-language model with stronger OCR, document, and visual reasoning capabilities.

Mistral AI released Mixtral 8x22B, a larger open sparse mixture-of-experts model.

Microsoft invests $1.5 billion in G42 and expands a strategic partnership covering Azure, responsible AI, infrastructure and emerging-market deployments.

xAI previewed its first multimodal model, adding understanding of documents, diagrams, charts, screenshots and photographs.

Meta introduced a second-generation MTIA accelerator with increased performance and memory capacity.

Google releases CodeGemma variants for code completion, code generation and instruction following.

Databricks optimized DBRX inference and made the model available through Mosaic AI Model Serving.

Command R+ became available first through Microsoft Azure alongside Cohere's hosted API.

Cohere introduced Command R+, its higher-capacity enterprise model for advanced RAG, multilingual generation and tools.

Anthropic published research showing how long-context models can be jailbroken using many demonstrations and proposed mitigations.

Security Copilot becomes generally available with integrations across Microsoft's security portfolio.

xAI announced Grok-1.5 with improved reasoning and a 128,000-token context window.

Databricks released DBRX, a 132-billion-total-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 36 billion active parameters under an open license.

Amazon invested an additional $2.75 billion in Anthropic, completing the $4 billion commitment announced in 2023.

Amazon invested an additional $2.75 billion, completing its initial $4 billion Anthropic investment commitment.

Cohere Labs made Command R weights available for research and evaluation.

Cohere released Command R, a 128K-context model optimized for production RAG, citations and tool use.

Anthropic, AWS, and Accenture partnered to help enterprises, including regulated industries, deploy Claude-based solutions.

Microsoft enters an AI licensing arrangement with Inflection and hires Mustafa Suleyman, Karén Simonyan and members of the Inflection team to build Microsoft AI.

Microsoft forms the Microsoft AI organization focused on Copilot and consumer AI, appointing Mustafa Suleyman as EVP and CEO and Karén Simonyan as Chief Scientist.

Anthropic made Claude 3 models available to Google Cloud customers through Vertex AI.

Kimi opened a beta supporting up to two million Chinese characters of context.

Microsoft and NVIDIA expand integrations across Azure AI, NVIDIA NIM, Omniverse and enterprise generative-AI infrastructure.

NVIDIA and AWS announced broader Blackwell infrastructure and generative AI software integrations.

NVIDIA and Microsoft expanded integrations spanning Azure AI, NIM, Omniverse and enterprise generative AI.

NVIDIA introduced the Blackwell GPU architecture, B100, B200 and GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip for generative AI.

NVIDIA launched NIM, containerized optimized inference microservices for generative AI deployment.

NVIDIA announced DGX GB200 and a Blackwell-powered DGX SuperPOD reference architecture.

NVIDIA launched Earth-2 cloud APIs and AI models for high-resolution weather and climate simulation.

NVIDIA announced a general-purpose foundation model initiative for humanoid robots.

xAI released the 314B-parameter Grok-1 base weights and Mixture-of-Experts architecture under Apache 2.0.

Google DeepMind introduces SIMA, an instructable agent that follows natural-language directions across multiple 3D environments.

Anthropic released Claude 3 Haiku as the fastest and least expensive model in the Claude 3 family.

Oracle introduced a cloud platform combining clinical, claims and operational data with analytics and AI.

Amazon researchers released pretrained Chronos-T5 time-series foundation models and code.

DeepSeek introduced an open vision-language model family for real-world multimodal understanding.

DeepSeek released 1.3B and 7B base and chat checkpoints.

Accenture and Cohere formed a strategic collaboration to deliver secure generative-AI solutions to enterprise customers.

Claude 3 Opus and Claude 3 Sonnet became available on Claude.ai and the generally available Claude API.

Anthropic announced Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku, adding multimodal image understanding and a three-tier capability lineup.

Moonshot released Mooncake, a KV-cache-centric architecture for disaggregated large-model serving.

Moonshot began publishing open systems research for efficient long-context model training and serving.

BigCode released StarCoder2 models at 3B, 7B, and 15B scales in collaboration with ServiceNow and NVIDIA.

GitHub launches Copilot Enterprise with codebase-aware assistance and GitHub.com integration.

Perplexity partnered with SK Telecom to distribute Perplexity Pro to the telecom company's users.

Microsoft invested €15 million in Mistral AI through a convertible note alongside the companies' commercial partnership.

Microsoft and Mistral AI announced a multiyear partnership to make Mistral models available through Azure AI and collaborate on AI development and distribution.

Mistral AI launched Le Chat, its conversational AI assistant.

Mistral AI introduced Mistral Small as its efficient commercial model tier.

Mistral AI launched its first flagship commercial model, Mistral Large.

Microsoft announces a multiyear partnership and €15 million investment in Mistral AI, bringing its models to Azure AI.

Google DeepMind introduces Genie, a generative interactive environment model trained from unlabelled internet videos.

Perplexity and ElevenLabs launched the Discover Daily AI-generated news podcast.

Google Cloud launches Gemini Code Assist, evolving Duet AI for Developers into a Gemini-powered coding assistant.

Google releases Gemma 2B and 7B open models with weights and responsible AI tooling.

Cohere added function calling and tool-use capabilities for building grounded enterprise agents.

Moonshot raised about $1 billion in a financing round led by Alibaba, reaching a reported $2.5 billion valuation.

Meta released V-JEPA, a video model trained by predicting missing representations rather than pixels.

Google DeepMind introduces Gemini 1.5 Pro with a mixture-of-experts architecture and a one-million-token context window.

OpenAI introduced Sora, a text-to-video model, as a research preview for red teamers and selected creators.

Cohere Labs' Aya initiative culminated in its first open multilingual model and dataset work spanning 101 languages.

Cohere For AI released Aya 101, an open multilingual instruction-following model covering 101 languages.

Gemini 1.0 Ultra becomes available to consumers through the new Gemini Advanced subscription.

Google renames Bard to Gemini, launches the Gemini mobile experience and introduces Gemini Advanced with Ultra 1.0.

Base, instruction and reinforcement-learning DeepSeekMath 7B checkpoints were published.

DeepSeek introduced its open mathematical reasoning research line.

Oracle expanded managed extraction and classification for documents within OCI AI Services.

Databricks acquired Einblick, whose natural-language notebook technology and team strengthened AI-native data exploration.

Meta released a 70-billion-parameter Code Llama model for code generation and instruction following.

The Browser Company partnered with Perplexity to make it a search-engine option in Arc.

DeepSeek released an updated 7B coding model that later served as the initialization for DeepSeekMath.

Hugging Face and Google Cloud announced a strategic partnership integrating the Hub with Google Cloud infrastructure, Vertex AI, and TPUs.

OpenAI released text-embedding-3-small and text-embedding-3-large with improved performance and new dimension controls.

Oracle made Meta Llama 2 available as a managed model in OCI Generative AI.

Oracle made Cohere generation and embedding models available through its managed service.

OCI released dedicated clusters for fine-tuning and hosting foundation models.

Oracle made its managed generative-AI service generally available with Cohere and Meta Llama models.

Google Cloud and Samsung announce deployment of Gemini Pro and Imagen 2 for Galaxy AI features, while Gemini Nano powers on-device experiences.

Google Research introduces AMIE, a research AI system optimized for diagnostic medical dialogue.

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Team, later renamed ChatGPT Business, for collaborative workplace use.

OpenAI launched the GPT Store for discovering and using custom GPTs.

NVIDIA introduced production generative AI microservices for interactive digital humans.

Perplexity raised $73.6 million in a Series B led by IVP at a reported $520 million valuation, with participation from NVIDIA, Jeff Bezos and others.

Moonshot expanded Kimi from the web to mobile applications.

Scale expanded its generative-AI platform and services into custom agentic applications connected to enterprise data, controls, and workflows.

Anthropic reportedly closed a $750 million Series D led by Menlo Ventures at an approximately $18.4 billion post-money valuation.

NVIDIA market capitalisation at end of calendar year 2023, up 240% year-over-year, driven by explosive demand for AI training GPUs following the ChatGPT-led generative AI boom.

Anthropic expanded commercial legal protections and improved API access and enterprise terms.

Google makes Imagen 2 available to Cloud customers through Vertex AI for enterprise image generation.

Google launches AI Studio as a browser-based workspace for prototyping prompts and building with the Gemini API.

Google releases the Gemini API through Google AI Studio and Vertex AI, giving developers access to Gemini Pro.

Microsoft releases Phi-2, a 2.7-billion-parameter small language model with strong reasoning and language performance.

Mistral AI completed a €385 million Series A at a reported valuation of about €2 billion.

Mistral AI launched La Plateforme, its developer platform and API service.

Mistral AI released Mixtral 8x7B, an Apache-2.0 sparse mixture-of-experts model.

Meta introduced Audiobox, a foundation research model for generating and editing speech, voices and sound effects.

Grok became available to users through the X platform.

Meta released Llama Guard, a safeguard model for classifying conversational AI inputs and outputs.

Meta launched Purple Llama, an open trust-and-safety initiative for generative AI.