Releases

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.

Harvey partnered with Mistral AI to develop and deploy legal AI models.

Suno raised $125 million in funding at a reported $500 million valuation.

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.