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OpenAI announces plan to become a for-profit company

OpenAI

South Korea's National Assembly passes an AI Basic Act

South Korea

DeepSeek releases V3 with open weights

DeepSeek

Alibaba's Qwen team releases QVQ, an open visual reasoning model

Alibaba

xAI raises $6 billion in a Series C round

xAI

OpenAI announces o3 and o3-mini, skipping straight past o2

OpenAI

Perplexity raises $500 million at a $9 billion valuation

Perplexity

GitHub Copilot becomes free for every developer in VS Code

GitHub

ChatGPT gets a phone number anyone can call

OpenAI

Anthropic publishes evidence of alignment faking in Claude

Anthropic

NVIDIA cuts the price of its Jetson Orin Nano developer kit

NVIDIA

Databricks raises $10 billion at a $62 billion valuation

Databricks

Waymo announces its first international expansion, in Tokyo

Waymo

Google DeepMind announces Veo 2, a sharper video model

Google DeepMind

Tesla widely releases Full Self-Driving version 13

Tesla

SoftBank pledges $100 billion for US investment

SoftBank

Broadcom's AI revenue jumps 220 percent, stock tops $1 trillion

Broadcom

ChatGPT's voice mode learns to see through your camera and screen

OpenAI

Google unveils Gemini 2.0 for what it calls the agentic era

Google DeepMind

ChatGPT arrives inside Siri as Apple Intelligence expands

Apple · OpenAI

OpenAI launches Sora to the public

OpenAI

China opens antitrust investigation into Nvidia

NVIDIA · State Administration for Market Regulation

Second lawsuit accuses Character.AI of harming minors

Character.AI · Google

Meta releases Llama 3.3, a 70B model that matches its 405B one

Meta

Microsoft previews Copilot Vision, an AI that watches you browse

Microsoft

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pro and the full o1 model

OpenAI

Amazon launches Nova, its own foundation model family

Amazon

US tightens export controls on China's chipmaking industry

United States Department of Commerce

Five Canadian news organizations sue OpenAI over copyright

OpenAI

Germany rules Microsoft's Inflection AI hire-out counts as a merger

Microsoft · Inflection AI

Alibaba previews QwQ, an open reasoning model that thinks before it answers

Alibaba

ByteDance sues former intern for $1.1 million over AI training sabotage

ByteDance

OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji found dead in San Francisco

OpenAI

Artists leak access to OpenAI's Sora video model in protest

OpenAI

Allen Institute for AI releases OLMo 2, its most capable fully open model family

Allen Institute for AI

Nvidia shows off Fugatto, a model that generates and transforms any sound

NVIDIA

Anthropic introduces the Model Context Protocol

Anthropic

Amazon puts another $4 billion into Anthropic

Amazon · Anthropic

DeepSeek previews its first reasoning model, R1-Lite-Preview

DeepSeek

Google DeepMind's AlphaQubit learns to decode quantum computing errors

Google DeepMind

Suno launches v4, its most capable AI song generation model

Suno

Microsoft previews Copilot Actions and a wave of autonomous agents at Ignite

Microsoft

Mistral releases Pixtral Large, a 124B open-weight multimodal model

Mistral AI

Cerebras runs Llama 3.1 405B at 969 tokens per second, a new inference record

Cerebras · Meta

Enterprise AI platform Writer raises $200 million at a $1.9 billion valuation

Writer

Alibaba releases the Qwen2.5-Coder family, six open code models up to 32B

Alibaba

Cursor's maker Anysphere acquires AI coding assistant Supermaven

Anysphere · Supermaven

Anthropic, Palantir and AWS sell Claude to defense and intelligence agencies

Anthropic · Palantir · Amazon

Physical Intelligence raises $400 million to build a foundation model for robots

Physical Intelligence · OpenAI

Claude 3.5 Haiku becomes available

Anthropic

Hugging Face releases SmolLM2, small language models built to run on phones

Hugging Face

Anthropic ships Claude desktop apps for Mac and Windows

Anthropic

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Search

OpenAI

Google DeepMind previews longer, multi speaker AI dialogue audio

Google DeepMind

OpenAI designs a custom AI chip with Broadcom and TSMC

OpenAI · Broadcom · TSMC

Google says AI now writes more than a quarter of its new code

Google

GitHub Copilot adds Claude and Gemini alongside GPT models

GitHub · Anthropic · Google · OpenAI

Open Source Initiative publishes the Open Source AI Definition 1.0

Open Source Initiative

Apple Intelligence ships in iOS 18.1, its first public release

Apple

Researcher turns Claude's computer use feature into a botnet client

Anthropic

Meta ships quantized Llama 3.2 models for phones

Meta

Claude gets an analysis tool that runs JavaScript in the browser

Anthropic

Cerebras triples its inference speed to 2,100 tokens per second

Cerebras

Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion 3.5

Stability AI

Runway introduces Act-One for AI character performances

Runway

Claude gets a mouse and keyboard

Anthropic

Anthropic releases an upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Anthropic

Mother sues Character.AI over teen son's death by suicide

Character.AI · Google

Dow Jones and the New York Post sue Perplexity for copyright

Perplexity · News Corp

IBM releases Granite 3.0 open language models

IBM

Adobe launches the Firefly Video Model in beta at MAX

Adobe

Tesla unveils Cybercab, Robovan and dancing Optimus robots

Tesla

Hassabis and Jumper win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold

Google DeepMind

Hopfield and Hinton win the Nobel Prize in Physics

Princeton University · University of Toronto

Meta previews Movie Gen, a video and audio generation model

Meta

ChatGPT gets Canvas, a workspace for writing and code

OpenAI

AI coding startup Poolside raises $500 million Series B

Poolside

OpenAI raises $6.6 billion at a $157 billion valuation

OpenAI

OpenAI DevDay debuts a Realtime API for voice apps

OpenAI

o1 trades inference time for reasoning

OpenAI

The EU AI Act enters into force

European Union

Claude 3.5 Sonnet beats the flagship at a fifth of the price

Anthropic

Apple announces Apple Intelligence, with ChatGPT inside

Apple · OpenAI

OpenAI reports covert influence operations using its models

OpenAI

The Army gives Palantir $480 million to take Maven to production

Palantir · United States Army

Mistral releases Codestral under a non-production license

Mistral AI

OpenAI forms a safety committee as its next frontier model trains

OpenAI

xAI raises $6 billion

xAI

OpenAI signs News Corp, the biggest publisher deal yet

OpenAI · News Corp

NVIDIA reports revenue up 262 percent and splits its stock ten for one

NVIDIA

Suno raises $125 million for text-to-song

Suno

Frontier labs sign the Seoul safety commitments

OpenAI · Anthropic · Google · Meta · Microsoft · Amazon · Mistral AI · xAI · Cohere · G42 · IBM · Inflection AI · Naver · Samsung Electronics · Technology Innovation Institute · Zhipu AI

Anthropic maps millions of features inside a frontier model

Anthropic

Scale AI raises $1 billion for the data foundry

Scale AI

Microsoft introduces Copilot+ PCs, with Recall

Microsoft

OpenAI pulls ChatGPT's Sky voice

OpenAI

Colorado enacts the first comprehensive US state AI law

State of Colorado

Sony Music tells 700 AI companies not to train on its catalog

Sony Music Group

OpenAI signs Reddit for data and distribution

OpenAI · Reddit

Ilya Sutskever leaves OpenAI and the superalignment team dissolves

OpenAI

Google puts AI Overviews on Search in the US

Google

Gemini 1.5 Flash and Project Astra debut at Google I/O

Google · Google DeepMind

GPT-4o talks back in real time

OpenAI

OpenAI publishes the first Model Spec

OpenAI

Microsoft commits $3.3 billion to a Wisconsin AI datacenter

Microsoft

US revokes Intel and Qualcomm licenses to sell chips to Huawei

United States Department of Commerce · Intel · Qualcomm · Huawei

Stack Overflow licenses its answers to OpenAI

Stack Overflow · OpenAI

Anthropic launches the Claude Team plan and an iOS app

Anthropic

Eight Alden Global Capital newspapers sue OpenAI and Microsoft

Alden Global Capital · OpenAI · Microsoft

Llama 3 narrows the gap to the closed models

Meta

Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute closes after 19 years

Future of Humanity Institute

The European Parliament adopts the AI Act

European Union

Claude 3 takes the top of the benchmarks

Anthropic

Sora generates a minute of coherent video

OpenAI