Releases

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.