Releases

Microsoft announces a unified Microsoft Copilot experience across Windows, web, Edge and Microsoft 365.

Oracle began embedding generative-AI capabilities into Fusion Cloud application workflows.

Oracle introduced large RDMA-connected NVIDIA GPU clusters for distributed model training.

Google DeepMind publishes AlphaMissense predictions for the effects of millions of human missense variants.

Anthropic disclosed its Long-Term Benefit Trust governance structure, designed to protect the public-benefit mission as the company scales.

Anthropic published its first Responsible Scaling Policy, introducing AI Safety Levels and deployment safeguards tied to model capability.

Oracle announced a voice-first generative-AI assistant for clinical documentation and workflows.

Databricks raised more than $500 million in Series I financing at a $43 billion valuation.

Anthropic and Boston Consulting Group partnered to help enterprise clients deploy Claude responsibly.

Microsoft Research releases Phi-1.5, a compact language model trained primarily on synthetic textbook-quality data.

Anthropic launched Claude Pro, a paid individual subscription with higher usage limits and priority access.

Baidu launched tools for fine-tuning and managing custom enterprise foundation models.

Baidu launched low-code tools for building enterprise generative-AI applications.

Baidu opened ERNIE Bot broadly after completing required generative-AI filings.

Google DeepMind and Google Cloud introduce SynthID for imperceptibly watermarking and identifying AI-generated images.

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Enterprise with enterprise security, privacy, administration, and higher-capacity access.

OpenAI named Scale a preferred partner for enterprise fine-tuning of GPT-3.5, combining Scale’s data engine with OpenAI models.

Hugging Face released Candle, a minimalist Rust framework for fast and portable machine learning.

Hugging Face raised $235 million in a Series D led by Salesforce Ventures at a $4.5 billion post-money valuation, with participation from major cloud and semiconductor companies.

Meta released code-specialized Llama models for generation, completion and instruction following.

Hugging Face released IDEFICS, an 80B open-access visual-language model supporting sequences of images and text.

Meta released SeamlessM4T for multilingual speech-to-speech, speech-to-text, text-to-speech and text translation.

xAI completed Grok-0, a 33-billion-parameter research prototype that preceded the first public Grok model.

SK Telecom invested an additional $100 million in Anthropic and formed a partnership to build a multilingual model for telecommunications.

Scale provided evaluation infrastructure for the White House-supported Generative Red Team Challenge at DEF CON 31, testing frontier models with thousands of participants.

Hugging Face launched managed training and deployment offerings in AWS Marketplace, simplifying enterprise procurement and use on AWS.

Anthropic released Claude Instant 1.2 through its API with gains in reasoning, coding, multilingual performance, and safety.

NVIDIA and Hugging Face announced a partnership to connect Hub developers with NVIDIA DGX Cloud for training and tuning generative AI models.

NVIDIA expanded Omniverse with generative AI tools and deeper OpenUSD workflows for industrial digitalization.

NVIDIA introduced the L40S data-center GPU for generative AI, inference, training and graphics workloads.

NVIDIA introduced AI Workbench for creating and moving generative AI projects across local, data-center and cloud systems.

CoreWeave closed a $2.3 billion debt financing led by Magnetar and Blackstone to purchase hardware for contracted AI workloads.

Meta released AudioCraft with MusicGen, AudioGen and EnCodec components for generative audio research.

Scale introduced an expert-driven testing and evaluation platform for measuring frontier-model capability, safety, bias, and robustness.

Hugging Face introduced Collections for curating and sharing related models, datasets, Spaces, and papers.

AWS introduced managed agents that orchestrate foundation models, enterprise data and API actions.

AWS introduced a generative-AI service for transcribing clinical conversations and drafting preliminary clinical notes.

Microsoft, Anthropic, Google and OpenAI establish the Frontier Model Forum to advance frontier-AI safety research, standards and responsible development.

Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI founded the Frontier Model Forum to advance frontier AI safety research and standards.

Databricks completed its acquisition of MosaicML, adding foundation-model training, inference, research and open models to its AI platform.

McKinsey and Cohere announced work to help enterprises deploy secure generative-AI solutions.

Meta released Llama 2 models in 7B, 13B and 70B sizes for research and commercial use.

Meta selected Microsoft as a preferred partner for distributing Llama 2 through Azure and Windows.

Microsoft launches Bing Chat Enterprise with commercial data protection and announces Microsoft 365 Copilot pricing.

Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd. was established by Liang Wenfeng as an AGI-focused research company originating from High-Flyer.

Elon Musk and the founding team publicly announced xAI with a mission to understand the true nature of the universe.

Google Labs begins early access to NotebookLM, an AI notebook grounded in users' selected source material.

IBM launched its open lakehouse data store optimized for governed analytics and AI workloads.

IBM began general availability of its foundation-model and machine-learning development studio.

Anthropic launched a public beta of its Claude web chat experience in the United States and United Kingdom.

Anthropic released Claude 2 with improved reasoning, coding, safety, and long-context capabilities.

Perplexity released an official Chrome extension that could set Perplexity as the browser's default search engine.

MLflow AI Gateway provided a unified interface for routing requests to multiple commercial and open model providers.

Databricks introduced automated and human evaluation tooling for assessing generative-AI quality on enterprise data.

Databricks announced managed vector search integrated with the lakehouse for retrieval-augmented generation and semantic search.

Databricks introduced an AI assistant for generating, explaining and repairing SQL and Python with organizational context.

Databricks launched Lakehouse AI, later branded Mosaic AI, as an integrated platform for building generative-AI applications on enterprise data.

MosaicML released the MPT-30B base, instruct and chat models with commercial-use terms.

Microsoft Research introduces Phi-1, showing that curated textbook-quality data can produce strong code and reasoning performance in a compact model.

Microsoft Research introduces Kosmos-2, linking generated language to object regions in images through grounding.

Meta introduced Voicebox, a generative speech model capable of editing, sampling and cross-lingual speech generation.

CoreWeave released Tensorizer, an open-source tensor serialization tool that streams models from S3, HTTP, and file storage to reduce PyTorch model startup time.

Oracle announced a managed generative-AI service developed with Cohere for enterprise use cases.

Oracle selected Cohere models and OCI infrastructure to deliver native generative-AI services across Oracle applications.

Mistral AI raised a €105 million seed round, one of Europe's largest seed financings, at a reported valuation of roughly €240 million.

Cohere raised $270 million from Inovia, Oracle, NVIDIA, Salesforce and other investors to scale enterprise generative AI.

Microsoft Research introduces Orca, a 13-billion-parameter model trained from rich explanation traces produced by larger models.

Hugging Face launched a daily research-paper discovery feed connected to community profiles, models, datasets, and discussions.

Perplexity introduced its paid Pro subscription with expanded searches and access to advanced models.

NVIDIA announced DGX GH200, connecting 256 Grace Hopper Superchips into a large shared-memory AI system.

Hugging Face launched an open and reproducible benchmark leaderboard for comparing community language models.

Perplexity introduced Copilot, a guided multi-step research mode later renamed Pro Search.

Perplexity launched its native Android application.

Baidu began transforming Wenku into an ERNIE-powered document and creativity platform.

Microsoft announces a common plugin model spanning ChatGPT, Bing, Dynamics 365 Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Anthropic raised $450 million led by Spark Capital to scale reliable AI products and safety research.

AWS launched Inferentia2-powered EC2 instances for large-scale generative-AI inference.

Meta released MMS speech-recognition and synthesis models covering more than 1,100 languages.

Meta unveiled its first in-house AI inference accelerator, designed initially for recommendation workloads.

Anthropic and Zoom announced a partnership to use Claude in Zoom products, alongside an investment from Zoom Ventures.

Anthropic expanded Claude's API context window from 9K to 100K tokens.

Scale launched EGP as a model-agnostic enterprise platform for deploying secure generative-AI applications with proprietary data, fine-tuning, evaluation, and red teaming.

Scale launched Donovan, a secure decision-support platform using large language models, retrieval, and mission data for government and defense users.

Scale deployed Donovan for the U.S. Army XVIII Airborne Corps, describing it as the first large-language-model platform deployed on a classified network for the Corps.

Google Cloud launches Model Garden to discover, customize and deploy Google and third-party foundation models.

Google launches PaLM 2, improving multilingual, reasoning and coding capabilities across Google products and Cloud.

IBM Consulting launched a center with more than 1,000 specialists to support enterprise generative-AI adoption.

IBM Consulting announced a dedicated generative-AI center and delivery practice alongside watsonx.

IBM announced watsonx as an integrated AI and data platform for enterprise foundation-model development and governance.

Meta released ImageBind, a joint embedding model spanning images, text, audio, depth, thermal and IMU data.

Anthropic published the principles used to train and guide Claude's behavior through Constitutional AI.

MosaicML released MPT-7B, Base, Instruct, Chat and StoryWriter variants under commercially usable licenses.

BigCode released StarCoder, a 15.5B-parameter code model trained on permissively licensed code from The Stack.

Databricks agreed to acquire data-governance company Okera to strengthen governance and AI security capabilities.

Baidu introduced ERNIE 3.5 as the new foundation model powering ERNIE Bot.

Arthur Mensch, Guillaume Lample and Timothée Lacroix founded Mistral AI in Paris to build efficient frontier AI models with an open-weight strategy.

Scale partnered with Anthropic to help enterprises customize and deploy generative-AI applications powered by Claude.

Anthropic partnered with Scale AI to help enterprises deploy and customize generative AI applications powered by Claude.

Hugging Face launched HuggingChat, an open-source conversational interface initially powered by an OpenAssistant model.

CoreWeave closed a primary Series B funding round led by Magnetar Capital to expand its GPU cloud for generative AI.