Releases

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.