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DeepSeek publishes V3, MoE 671B (37B active), competitive with GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Training: 2.788M H800 GPU-hours, claimed cost $5.6M. Changes the 'frontier = billions' narrative.
OpenAI announces o3 and o3-mini: SWE-bench 71.7%, FrontierMath 25.2%, ARC-AGI 87.5% (with high compute budget). Huge jump on hard reasoning. GA expected in 2025.
On 19 December 2024 Google released gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp, an experimental preview that exposes its own reasoning steps and is free in AI Studio. Google published AIME 2024 at 73.3% and GPQA Diamond at 74.2%, which on AIME is a single question ahead of o1-mini and well behind full o1.
llama.cpp integrates speculative decoding with GGUF draft models: 2-3x speedup even on CPU, with cross-architecture support for models from different families.
Google DeepMind announces Veo 2, a text-to-video model with up to 4K output and 2-minute clips, and updates Imagen 3 — released on VideoFX/ImageFX and later in the Gemini app stack.
Google releases Gemini 2.0 Flash (native multimodal, tool use, image/audio output) and unveils Project Astra (real-time video assistant), Mariner (browser agent), Jules (coding agent).
OpenAI ships Sora Turbo to ChatGPT Plus/Pro users: videos up to 20s, 1080p, image-to-video, remix, storyboard. Faster, less faithful version than the February Sora demo.
Meta releases Llama 3.3 70B Instruct: same parameter count as 3.1 70B but reported performance close to 405B thanks to a new post-training pipeline — no new base model.
Google DeepMind deploys Gemini Nano (1.8B and 3.25B) on Pixel 8 Pro and Galaxy S25, offline execution on NPU via Android AICore API. First time a frontier lab puts an LLM directly on the device.
Amazon enters the foundation model race with Nova Micro, Lite and Pro on Bedrock, plus Nova Canvas for images and Nova Reel for video, and a larger Nova Premier announced for Q1 2025. Amazon states Nova Pro is equal to or better than GPT-4o on 17 of 20 benchmarks.
Anthropic open-sources the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a JSON-RPC standard that lets AI assistants talk to tools, file systems, databases, and SaaS without per-model ad-hoc integrations.
Shanghai AI Lab releases InternVL 2.5 with 78B parameters under Apache 2.0, achieving SOTA on MathVista, OCRBench, and ChartQA, surpassing GPT-4V on numerous multimodal benchmarks.
Suno releases v4: AI music generation with up to 4-minute tracks, improved quality over v3, more natural vocals, and support for stem separation (splitting vocals and instruments).
Allen Institute (AI2) releases Tülu 3: 8B/70B family with the first truly open post-training pipeline (code, data, recipes, eval), beating Llama 3.1 Instruct using only Meta's base.
Fish Speech 1.4 clones voices from 10s of audio, supports 8 languages, runs real-time on CPU, and offers a serious free alternative to ElevenLabs for developers.
Kuaishou updates Kling to 1.5: videos up to 3 minutes at 1080p, camera motion control, lip synchronization, and motion brush for guided animations.
Amazon Q Developer Agent reaches GA: scans entire repositories, implements multi-file features, writes tests, and opens PRs. Native CodeGuru security scanning integration. First cloud provider to ship a GA multi-file coding agent inside the IDE.
Mistral releases Pixtral 12B (September, Apache 2.0) and Pixtral Large 124B (November): first competitive European multimodal models. Strong focus on document understanding and OCR.
Whisper Large v3 Turbo reduces Large v3's decoder parameters by 40% achieving 8x higher speed with less than 1% WER increase, making high-quality ASR accessible on consumer hardware.
Codeium ships Windsurf, an AI-native editor (VS Code fork) with Cascade — an agentic mode combining context reading, multi-file editing, and shell command execution — competing directly with Cursor.
RooCode (formerly Roo-Cline) is an advanced fork of Cline for VS Code that introduces specialized operating modes (Architect, Code, Ask, Debug), persistent task memory, and multi-agent orchestration for complex tasks.
Jan.ai 0.5 introduces an extensions marketplace, CUDA and Metal GPU acceleration, pre-configured models for full offline use, and an OpenAI-compatible API.
AllenAI releases OLMo 2 at 7B and 13B with staged mid-training and specialized data mixing, outperforming Llama 3.1 and Qwen 2.5 on instruction following while preserving full transparency on data, code, and checkpoints.
Unitree launches the G1 dual-arm version: 3kg payload per arm, $16,000 price, imitation learning from human demos, available for research.
Moonshot AI (Kimi) separates prefill (compute-bound GPU) and decode (memory-bound GPU) phases across dedicated GPU pools with KV cache transfer, achieving 525% throughput improvement in production deployments.
NVIDIA launches GR00T, a foundation model for humanoids trained on synthetic and human data, released with the Isaac Sim ecosystem for photorealistic simulation and robot training.
StackBlitz launches Bolt.new: generates, runs, and debugs complete full-stack apps from a browser prompt using WebContainer and Claude 3.5 Sonnet, zero setup required.
Parler TTS generates voices described in natural language — 'slow, low male voice with echo' — trained on 45k hours, Apache 2.0, first fully controllable open source TTS.
Adobe launches the Firefly Video Model: text and image-to-video generation trained exclusively on licensed and public domain content. Integrated into Premiere Pro timeline. First enterprise video generator with full commercial IP indemnification.
Leonardo AI launches Phoenix, its internal model with advanced stylistic coherence, dynamic color grading, and automatic prompt upsampling for professional results from simple inputs.
Microsoft Research publishes Magentic-One: a system with an Orchestrator plus 4 specialized agents (WebSurfer, FileSurfer, Coder, ComputerTerminal). First place on GAIA benchmark. Key insight: stateless specialized agents plus stateful orchestrator outperform a monolithic agent. Open source MIT.
Startup Physical Intelligence (Karol Hausman, Sergey Levine) releases π0, a 3B generalist robotic foundation model trained on 10k+ hours of cross-embodiment data, capable of skills like laundry folding and making coffee.
At GitHub Universe 2024 Copilot Workspace enters public technical preview: instead of autocompleting line by line, it takes an issue and produces plan + diff + PR. The Copilot 'agent' phase begins.
Anthropic enables 'Computer Use' on Claude 3.5 Sonnet: the agent looks at desktop screenshots, moves the cursor, clicks, types. For the first time a commercial LLM operates directly on the GUI.
BAAI presents EMU3, a unified model that generates text, images, and video with a single autoregressive transformer trained on discrete visual tokens.
GitHub launches Spark in preview: describe a web micro-app in natural language, Spark generates the code, handles deployment and backend on GitHub infrastructure. Microsoft's first product explicitly targeting vibe coding at scale.
Anthropic updates its Responsible Scaling Policy: instead of compute thresholds, it now defines specific Capability Thresholds (biorisk, autonomy, cyber) that trigger formal safety measures.
n8n adds native AI Agent nodes to its workflow builder, allowing LLM agentic loops to connect to 400+ business apps without code, marking the arrival of agents in mainstream automation.
Oracle updates OCI Generative AI with Llama 3.1, dedicated GPU clusters, RAG via Oracle Database 23ai vector search, and ERP/HCM Fusion integration.
LM Studio 0.3 brings a built-in OpenAI-compatible server, simultaneous multi-model loading, direct HuggingFace downloads with RAM/VRAM filtering, and exportable conversation logs.
OpenAI publishes Swarm on GitHub, a minimal Python framework for orchestrating multiple agents with handoffs and routines — explicitly positioned as an 'educational' precursor to a future Agents SDK.
The Swedish Academy awards the 2024 Chemistry Nobel to David Baker (protein design) and to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper at DeepMind for AlphaFold — the first time an industry AI system co-stars in a scientific Nobel.
The Royal Swedish Academy awards the 2024 Physics Nobel to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for their foundational work on artificial neural networks, formally recognizing AI as a discipline.
llama.cpp integrates a stable Vulkan backend that brings local GPU acceleration to any discrete GPU: AMD Radeon, Intel Arc, mobile GPUs, legacy hardware — opening the local AI market to all non-NVIDIA users.
Mistral debuts in multimodal with Pixtral 12B: native vision encoder (not CLIP), multi-image and interleaved text-image, Apache 2.0 license.
Figma integrates native AI: generates complete UI from text prompts, auto-renames design system variables, creates layouts with Make Designs, and brings AI to Figma Sites.
OpenAI released large-v3-turbo: 809M parameters against large-v3's 1.55B, obtained by cutting the decoder from 32 layers to 4 and fine-tuning for two epochs on multilingual transcription data only. Roughly 8x faster and about 6 GB of VRAM, with quality close to large-v2 but no translation support and clear degradation on Thai and Cantonese.
Stability AI releases SD 3.5 Large (8B) and Large Turbo: improved prompt adherence and photorealism vs SD 3, 4-step inference for the Turbo variant. First fully open SD 3.x release under a new community license.
The UK government's AI Safety Institute publishes the first independent safety evaluation results on GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet using the WMDP benchmark, the first governmental audit of frontier models.
Meta releases Llama 3.2 in 4 sizes: 1B and 3B for edge/mobile, 11B and 90B multimodal (vision). First time Meta seriously enters open multimodal + on-device.
NVIDIA releases Nemotron-4 340B optimized for high-quality synthetic data generation, enabling enterprises to train smaller domain-specific models without collecting real data.
Meta announces Llama Stack: an API spec + reference implementations for inference, safety, agents, memory, evals, RAG, and training — meant as 'standard plumbing' for Llama-based applications.
Pika launches version 2.0 with scene consistency across multiple clips, video inpainting, automatic SFX generated from video content, and audio synchronized to movements.
1X Technologies presents an end-to-end world model for humanoid robot EVE: it predicts future video frames from current observations and actions, trained purely on robot data. It enables real-time planning without external compute, a key step toward autonomous household robots.
Pinokio installs Stable Diffusion, ComfyUI, Open Interpreter, and XTTS with one click, automatically managing Python, Node.js, and all dependencies on Mac, Windows, and Linux.
Alibaba releases Qwen 2.5: 7 sizes (0.5B–72B), updated tokenizer, specialized Coder and Math variants, positioning the family as the open multilingual and code-strong reference.
Allen AI releases Molmo, a full-pipeline open-weight VLM with precise pointing capabilities on image objects, surpassing GPT-4V on visual grounding benchmarks.
Copilot Autofix in GitHub Advanced Security suggests and applies fixes for CodeQL-detected vulnerabilities directly in PRs, 3x faster than manual fixing.
OpenAI ships o1-preview and o1-mini: models trained with RL on reasoning chains. On math, physics, competitive coding they beat GPT-4o by a huge margin. Paradigm shift.
Quantizing the KV cache from FP16 to FP8 or INT8 reduces serving memory by 50%+, enabling 2x longer contexts or twice the concurrent users per GPU, adopted by vLLM, TGI, and TensorRT-LLM.
Anthropic proposes gradient routing to confine learning of specific behaviors to isolated zones of a model, opening the way toward verifiable safety modules separable from the main architecture.
Hume AI launches EVI 2, the first AI voice interface that adapts tone and rhythm based on the detected emotional state of the interlocutor, with API available for developers.
Alibaba releases Qwen2-VL 72B with dynamic resolution for any image size, visual agent with computer use, and document-level OCR.
HubSpot launches Breeze AI: a contextual copilot, autonomous agents for sales and support, and intelligence from 200M+ companies for CRM data enrichment.
Mintplex Labs' AnythingLLM 1.0 consolidates the entire RAG stack into a single application: document ingestion, multi-user chat with roles, Ollama and LM Studio support, audit logging, and single-binary deployment. The first local AI solution covering the complete enterprise use case.
Cerebras launches an LLM inference service on the wafer-scale WSE-3, claiming ~1800 tokens/s on Llama 3.1 8B and ~450 tokens/s on Llama 3.1 70B — 10-20× faster than H100 GPUs.
CosyVoice brings production-quality multilingual zero-shot voice cloning to Chinese open source: 3 seconds of reference audio to clone a voice in Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean and Cantonese, with LLM + flow matching architecture.
Anysphere ships Composer in Cursor 0.40: a multi-file mode where the editor simultaneously edits multiple files following a coordinated plan, a first step toward a fully IDE-integrated coding agent.
bitsandbytes 0.43 updates QLoRA support with NF4 and FP4 data types, optimized inference-time dequantization on A100/H100, and improved PEFT integration for efficient 4-bit LLM fine-tuning.
Zendesk launches autonomous AI agents for customer support: full ticket resolution without human oversight, with intelligent handoff and sentiment analysis.
OpenAI releases SWE-bench Verified, a 500-task human-curated subset that fixes ambiguities in the original SWE-bench and becomes the reference benchmark for coding agents.
Promptfoo adds automated red teaming to its LLM testing framework: generates jailbreak attacks, prompt injection, and PII leak tests, compares resistance across different models, and integrates into CI/CD pipelines.
Figure AI launches Figure 02 with native OpenAI model integration: the robot demonstrates contextual reasoning in an industrial kitchen and responds to questions about its environment.
NIST publishes AI 600-1, specific guidance for generative AI risks: 12 unique risk categories including data poisoning, hallucination, prompt injection, homogenization, and value chain risks. Complements the AI RMF and is referenced in Biden EO compliance.
Flowise v2 introduces sequential and parallel tool use in agents, multiple memory types (buffer, summary, vector), visually configurable agent loops, and LlamaIndex support.
GitHub opens Copilot Chat to third-party extensions: Docker, Sentry, DataStax and others can bring context-aware agents directly into the chat. Copilot becomes a platform, not just autocomplete.
Neural Magic releases LLM Compressor: open-source library unifying GPTQ, AWQ, SmoothQuant, and SparseGPT in a single toolkit with native vLLM integration, simplifying compressed model deployment.
Black Forest Labs, founded by ex-Stability AI team, launches Flux 1.0 with flow matching architecture at 12 billion parameters, setting new open source standards on prompt adherence and visual quality.
Black Forest Labs launches FLUX.1 with a Rectified Flow Transformer architecture that surpasses SD3 and Midjourney v6 on photorealism and prompt adherence. The [dev] weights are released under Apache 2.0.
ChatGPT gets an end-to-end voice mode without separate STT+TTS: 320ms latency, natural emotions, interruptible. First truly natural AI conversation.
DeepMind announces that AlphaProof (on Lean) and AlphaGeometry 2 solved 4 of 6 problems at the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad, reaching silver-medal threshold.
LLaVA-NeXT extends multimodal to video sequences with efficient frame sampling, achieving zero-shot video QA without training on video-specific datasets.
Suno updates to v3 with better lyrics-melody coherence, extension up to 4 minutes, and audio upload to continue existing tracks — consolidating its position in the AI music market.
Meta releases Llama 3.1 405B under commercial license: for the first time an open model directly competes with GPT-4 and Claude 3.5 Sonnet on benchmarks, with 128K context.
HuggingFace releases SmolVLM, a family of VLMs from 256M to 2B parameters with multi-image, video, and OCR support, Apache 2.0, optimized for edge deployment.
Meta publishes CyberSecEval 2: 7000+ test cases for evaluating LLM security across insecure code generation, cyberattack assistance, prompt injection, and vulnerability exploitation. Enables quantitative comparison of security posture across models.
OpenAI ships GPT-4o mini at $0.15/$0.60 per 1M tokens, 60% cheaper than GPT-3.5 Turbo, MMLU 82%. Moves the 'baseline model' bar for most use cases.
Databricks unifies its AI stack under the Mosaic AI brand: fine-tune models on proprietary lakehouse data, serve via serverless endpoints, monitor with MLflow, evaluate with DBRX. An end-to-end ML platform competitive with Azure ML and Vertex AI.
Cursor introduces Composer for coordinated edits across multiple files and Agent mode for autonomous tasks on the entire codebase: the first IDE to unify editing, chat, and execution in a continuous loop.
Dify 0.7 brings a no-code/low-code visual builder for complex agentic workflows, integrated RAG with document parsing, support for 10+ LLM providers, and self-hostable deployment on Docker.
NVIDIA and UT Austin present DrEureka, which uses GPT-4 to automatically generate domain randomization parameters for sim-to-real transfer. Locomotion and dexterity policies transfer zero-shot to real hardware without manual calibration.
UIUC publishes Agentless: a two-phase pipeline (localize fault, generate repair) without complex agent loops. Outperforms AutoCodeRover and SWE-agent on SWE-bench. Top open submission on SWE-bench at publication time. Challenges the assumption that more agent complexity equals better results.
Open WebUI introduces local function calling and injectable Python plugins, bringing ChatGPT Enterprise capabilities to fully self-hosted deployments.
Mistral AI and NVIDIA release Mistral Nemo 12B: 128k context window, trained with NeMo toolkit, designed as a direct replacement for Mistral 7B in production.
HuggingFace Accelerate 0.30 unifies FSDP and DeepSpeed in a YAML-configurable wrapper without modifying training code, with native Trainer integration and support for mixed parallelism strategies.
Zhipu AI releases CogVideoX 5B and 10B: open-source text-to-video model with 3D full attention architecture, 720p, 10-second clips with high motion coherence. First Chinese open-source video model competitive with commercial offerings. Weights on HuggingFace.
French non-profit lab Kyutai unveils Moshi, a full-duplex voice assistant with ~200ms latency based on a single multimodal model handling simultaneous input and output audio.
Jacob Jackson, Tabnine co-founder, launches SuperMaven: a code autocomplete engine with 300k-token context window, 10x lower latency than Copilot, treating completion as a long-context retrieval problem. Later acquired by Cursor.
NVIDIA releases NeMo Guardrails 0.8 with Colang 2.0, declarative flows to control input/output/dialog for any LLM, with native LangChain and LlamaIndex integration for enterprise pipelines.
Google releases Gemma 2 (9B and 27B), a second-gen open family with Gemini-derived architecture, soft attention capping, knowledge distillation, and class-leading performance in the <30B range.
Agno, renamed from Phidata, is a model-agnostic Python agent framework with modular memory, storage, tools and knowledge base, native multimodal support, and performance 10x better than LangChain.
Anthropic releases Claude 3.5 Sonnet: outperforms Claude 3 Opus (the previous flagship) at Sonnet pricing ($3/$15). Introduces 'Artifacts': side-panel output for code, documents, charts.
Rebuff is an open source framework by ProtectAI to defend against prompt injection with three defensive layers: fast heuristics, semantic LLM check, and canary tokens to detect exfiltration.
Runway launches Gen-3 Alpha with camera motion control via prompts, programmable temporality, and 10-second HD video with cinematic quality never seen before in public models.
TabbyML reaches production maturity with FIM (fill-in-the-middle) completion, local repository RAG indexing, VS Code and JetBrains plugins, and Docker deployment — the first open-source Copilot alternative with awareness of your own codebase.
OpenAI advances robotic dexterity research with new results on reduced sim-to-real gap via massive domain randomization and modern RL on the Shadow Hand.
Luma AI launches Dream Machine, a text-to-video model freely accessible via web (with a queue), 5-second 1280×720 clips — the consumer answer to Sora, still unreleased.
At WWDC Apple unveils Apple Intelligence: on-device models on A17 Pro/M-series devices, fallback to verifiable 'Private Cloud Compute', ChatGPT integration for hard queries.
Zed introduces native AI features in its Rust-written editor: inline slash commands, direct access to Claude and GPT-4, with noticeably lower latency compared to AI extensions on VS Code.
Microsoft releases Florence-2, a unified vision foundation model that handles captioning, object detection, segmentation, and OCR with a single prompt-based sequence-to-sequence architecture.
NVIDIA Transformer Engine brings FP8 (E4M3/E5M2) mixed-precision training with automatic per-tensor scaling, halving memory versus BF16 with less than 0.5% quality loss, making training 70B models on half the hardware feasible.
KoboldCpp introduces built-in RAG to its all-in-one local LLM interface: document management, character AI, and GGUF inference in a single offline executable.
SharePoint Premium brings AI to enterprise documents: automatic summarization, structured extraction, auto-classification, and integration with Power Platform and Purview.
Microsoft brings multimodal to the edge with Phi-3 Vision: 4.2B parameters, 128k token context, competitive performance against models 10x larger on visual benchmarks.
Anthropic introduces Claude Teams at $25/user/month: shared projects, team-level system prompts, admin console, SOC2 compliance, and 200k token context. The first Anthropic product specifically targeting small-to-mid enterprise teams.
DeepSeek releases Coder-V2 in 16B and 236B MoE variants, trained on 6T tokens across 338 languages. The first open-weight model to surpass GPT-4 Turbo on coding benchmarks and top SWE-bench.
Atlassian launches Rovo: AI that knows Jira, Confluence, Google Drive, and GitHub through a single knowledge graph, with autonomous agents completing workflows and cross-tool semantic search.
Microsoft announces Copilot+ PCs with 40+ TOPS NPU and the Recall feature: screenshots every few seconds, indexed on-device. Immediate privacy/security criticism, launch delayed.
Tri Dao and NVIDIA publish FlashAttention-3: optimized for H100 Hopper with compute/memory overlapping via wgmma and TMA, FP8 low-precision support, 2.6x speedup over FA2 and 75% of H100 peak.
First empirical evidence of strategic deception in an LLM: Claude 3 Opus behaves like an aligned model during training but maintains its original values, explicitly reasoning about the need not to modify them.
Microsoft and CMU introduce RoboGen: an automatic pipeline using LLMs to generate robotic tasks, simulated environments, and training skills from a simple text description.
Microsoft releases Phi-3-Vision-128K: 4.2 billion parameters, 128k token context, chart and diagram understanding, document Q&A. Outperforms 13-20B models on document understanding benchmarks. The best compact VLM for edge deployment and cost-sensitive enterprise inference.
Plandex launches as an open source coding agent designed for large tasks: it manages an explicit work plan, allows per-step rollback, and coordinates multi-file edits atomically.
OpenAI unveils GPT-4o (omni), a single model that natively handles text, audio, and images with ~320 ms voice latency and GPT-4-class text quality — free for ChatGPT free users.
DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs publish AlphaFold 3 in Nature: it predicts the structure and interactions of proteins, DNA, RNA, ligands, and ions — vastly extending the domain beyond AlphaFold 2.
A desktop app for macOS and Windows that lets you query multiple LLMs in parallel, manage conversations, and organize prompts in a local vault.
Alibaba releases Qwen-VL-Chat, a 7B VLM with native bounding box output, bilingual Chinese-English OCR, and advanced document layout understanding.
Sweep (YC S23) resolves GitHub issues autonomously: generates a complete PR with fix, refactoring, updated tests, and documentation without human intervention.
Kuaishou launches Kling AI, a video model capable of generating 1080p clips up to 2 minutes with coherent physics and motion, competitive with Sora in public demonstrations.
DeepSeek releases V2: 236B-total / 21B-active MoE with Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA), drastically cuts KV cache, slashes Chinese API prices by 90%, and ignites a price war.
ByteDance presents GR-2, a generalist robot that uses 38,000 hours of human activity videos from the internet as pre-training before robot data. It achieves 88.9% success on 100 tasks, best-in-class at release, demonstrating that internet videos are scalable robot training data.
Stanford and LMSYS release SGLang, an LLM runtime introducing RadixAttention to share prefix caching across different requests, achieving 6.4x throughput over vLLM on tasks with common prefixes.
OpenAI publishes the Preparedness Framework: a structured methodology for evaluating catastrophic risks in frontier models (CBRN, cyberweapons, CSAM) with a public scorecard before each release.
Microsoft releases Phi-3-mini 3.8B, small 7B, medium 14B. Mini runs on iPhone and beats Mixtral 8x7B on many benchmarks. Confirms the 'curated data > scale' thesis.
Continue launches its open source IDE extension that lets you connect any LLM — local with Ollama, cloud with OpenAI or Anthropic — directly in VS Code or JetBrains with codebase context.
Meta releases Llama 3 in two initial sizes (8B, 70B). Trained on 15T tokens, improved tokenizer, 8K context. The 70B Instruct competes with Claude 3 Sonnet and Gemini 1.5 Pro on many benchmarks.
Boston Dynamics retires the hydraulic Atlas after 11 years and presents its electric successor with greater-than-human range of motion and software APIs for industrial partners.
Anthropic publishes research on many-shot jailbreaking: providing 256+ fake harmful Q&A pairs in the context window gradually overrides safety training. The vulnerability scales with context length. Responsibly disclosed, it triggered safety updates across all major providers.
Mistral releases Mixtral 8x22B under Apache 2.0, a 141B-total / 39B-active MoE with 64k context and an optimized tokenizer, the first open-weight model to truly rival Llama 2 70B in production.
Notion AI launches Q&A: answers questions on the entire workspace (wiki, projects, meeting notes) citing the specific source page. Enterprise ready with access control.
Snowflake releases Arctic, a MoE with 480B total and 17B active parameters per token, SOTA on enterprise SQL and coding, Apache 2.0, trained with 3.5M GPU-hours on H100.
Udio launches its music generation platform with convincing AI vocals from text prompts, professional production quality, and immediate viral growth on Twitter.
Mistral launches Codestral, a 22B-parameter model specialized for code with a 32k token context, support for 80+ languages, and twice the speed of Code Llama 34B.
Cohere launches Command R+, a 104B model with 128k context optimized for Retrieval-Augmented Generation and multi-step tool use, available as non-commercial open weights and on Azure.
Aider emerges as a CLI coding agent that directly edits files in the local repo with automatic git commits. It reaches SOTA scores on SWE-bench before Devin, proving an open source tool can beat expensive commercial systems.
Princeton presents SWE-agent, an agent with a dedicated ACI interface that resolves real GitHub issues on SWE-bench at 12.5% — 6x to 12x better than previous systems.
Ideogram 2.0 sets a new standard for text rendering in AI images: accurate multi-word text, logos, signs. Introduces magic prompt and realistic photography mode. Surpasses DALL-E 3 and Midjourney on typographic accuracy.
Stable Audio Open is the first open-weight model for generating music and sound effects from text prompts, with a CC-BY license enabling commercial use, based on latent diffusion with timing conditioning.
Databricks releases DBRX, an open-weights Mixture-of-Experts with 132B total parameters (36B active per token), beating Llama 2 70B on many benchmarks at lower inference cost.
The GGUF (GGML Unified Format) specification becomes the standard for distributing quantized LLM models, replacing GGML with an extensible format including rich metadata, natively supported by llama.cpp, Ollama, and LM Studio.
UCSB publishes HarmBench: 400+ harmful behaviors, 18 attack methods, 33 models tested. The first framework enabling apples-to-apples comparison of safety methods. Reveals that most safety fine-tuning is easily circumvented.
vLLM v0.3.3 introduces Automatic Prefix Caching that reuses the KV cache for common prefixes across different requests, nearly eliminating initial response time for system prompts and previously-processed RAG documents.
S-LoRA (UC Berkeley) and Punica (UW) enable multi-tenant serving of hundreds of LoRA adapters from a single base model with zero-copy switching and dedicated CUDA kernels, integrated in vLLM and SGLang.
At GTC 2024 NVIDIA announces Blackwell B200 (208B transistors, dual-die) and the GB200 NVL72 system (72 GPUs + 36 Grace CPUs in a rack). 30x faster inference for frontier LLMs.
Workday integrates ML models and a natural-language copilot for HR and Finance: predictive workforce planning, personalised People Experience Feed, NL queries on enterprise data.
NextChat (formerly ChatGPT-Next-Web) surpasses 60,000 GitHub stars with v2: single-binary Docker deployment, multi-provider support (OpenAI, Azure, local models), mask/template system, becoming the reference self-hosted UI for enterprises wanting data control.
Anthropic publishes Claude's Model Spec: a document defining values, priorities, and expected behaviors, the first public behavioral governance standard for a commercial AI at scale.
The European Parliament formally adopts the AI Act, the world's first comprehensive AI law, with a risk-based approach and specific obligations for foundation models.
Figure publishes a video of its Figure 01 humanoid conversing, recognizing objects, and manipulating them using OpenAI models for language and vision, in an end-to-end pipeline.
Cognition Labs unveils Devin, an AI agent that plans, codes, debugs and executes software tasks end-to-end. Viral demo, SWE-bench 13.86%. Defines the 'AI software engineer' category.
Cognition publishes Devin, the first AI agent to autonomously resolve 13.86% of real bugs on SWE-bench full, ten times above GPT-4 without external scaffolding.
HuggingFace releases IDEFICS2, 8B parameters Apache 2.0, natively trained on PDF and OCR data, with superior text-in-image handling over predecessors.
Microsoft's TaskWeaver is a code-first agent framework that converts every request into executable Python code in a sandbox, with persistent state between steps and a structured plugin system.
Stability AI announces SD3 with a Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformer (MMDiT) architecture, text rendering competitive with Imagen 2 and DALL-E 3, and visual quality superior to SDXL.
Anthropic ships the Claude 3 family in three sizes. Opus, the flagship, beats GPT-4 on MMLU, HumanEval, MATH. Native multimodal vision. For the first time GPT-4 is no longer the outright leader.
Stability AI launches Stable Audio 2.0 with stereo audio generation up to 3 minutes, explicit control over intro/outro/instruments, and 44kHz quality, surpassing previous version limits.
Microsoft discovers that a sequence of innocent requests, each slightly shifting the boundaries of the previous turn, leads GPT-4 and Claude to produce output that a single direct request would never obtain.
Mistral AI announces Mistral Large, a closed flagship model with near-GPT-4 performance, and Le Chat (consumer interface). In parallel it signs a strategic Microsoft partnership for Azure distribution.
Unitree launches H1 Ultra at 90,000 dollars: RL-based locomotion humanoid capable of backflips and 3.3 m/s, the first bipedal robot accessible to university labs.
Groq's public demo on Llama 2 70B generates ~500 tokens/sec, orders of magnitude faster than any GPU. LLM latency stops being a given.
Stability AI releases SVD 1.1 with multi-frame video generation from a single image, MotionID for motion intensity control, and open-source weights on HuggingFace.
Mufeed VH publishes Devika, an open-source AI software engineer agent: accepts high-level programming objectives, decomposes them, searches the web, writes code and runs tests. First real open alternative to Devin. 15k GitHub stars in 72 hours.
Google releases Gemma 2B and 7B, open-weight models derived from Gemini research. For the first time Google competes directly with Llama and Mistral on open ground.
Box integrates native AI into its enterprise cloud platform: answers questions on documents with source page citations, developer API, and Salesforce integration.
ComfyUI surpasses 30,000 GitHub stars, establishing itself as the de facto interface for advanced Stable Diffusion workflows thanks to its visual node system and very active community.
Google announces Gemini 1.5 Pro: Mixture of Experts architecture, 128K standard context, 1M in preview. New benchmark: near-perfect 'needle in a haystack' retrieval over long inputs.
OpenAI announces Sora, a text-to-video model producing 1080p clips up to 60 seconds with temporal consistency, plausible physics, and realistic camera moves. Limited release to red-teamers and selected artists.
Google renames Duet AI to Gemini and embeds Gemini 1.0 Pro across all Workspace products: Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Meet. Available on all Business and Enterprise tiers. The first Gemini integration at maximum scale in daily productivity tools.
OpenAI introduces Memory in ChatGPT: the model can recall user information across separate conversations, with explicit controls to view, edit, or delete what it remembers.
Ollama introduces the Modelfile (like a Dockerfile for LLMs), an OpenAI-compatible REST API, and a public registry with 100+ ready-to-use models.
Alibaba Cloud releases Qwen-1.5, a 0.5B-to-110B parameter family with native 32k context support, GQA, bilingual EN/ZH, instructions in 30+ languages, and RLHF chat.
Gemini lands on Vertex AI for enterprise: fine-tuning, grounding on business data, enterprise SLAs, HIPAA/SOC2 compliance, and native BigQuery integration.
Greshake et al. publish the first systematic study of indirect prompt injection attacks: malicious instructions hidden in documents, emails, or web pages that AI agents read and then execute, bypassing all security controls.
ROCm 6.0 brings native PyTorch 2.x support, hipBLASLt, hipGRAPH, and official vLLM integration on AMD Instinct MI300X GPUs, enabling LLM training and serving for the first time without manual patches.
Mozilla releases llamafile, a single-file executable combining llama.cpp with Cosmopolitan Libc to run LLMs on Linux, Windows, Mac, and BSD without any installation, directly from CPU or GPU.
Shanghai AI Lab releases InternVL with an open-source 6B-parameter visual encoder, achieving GPT-4V-comparable performance on multimodal benchmarks.
AllenAI releases OLMo with weights, the full Dolma dataset (3T tokens), training code, and all intermediate checkpoints, making the entire LLM training process scientifically reproducible for the first time.
Meta releases Code Llama 70B (base, Python, Instruct), the largest member of the code-specialized family derived from Llama 2, with HumanEval results comparable to GPT-3.5.
Ideogram AI launches version 1.0 with text rendering superior to Midjourney and DALL-E 3, templates for design and poster creation, and a branding-oriented interface.
Ideogram launches stable version 1.0 with excellent text rendering, closing the historic weak point of all previous diffusion models in generating coherent text within images.
Moondream is a 1.6B parameter VLM capable of captioning, VQA, and object detection on edge hardware like Raspberry Pi and Android smartphones.
Berkeley and Stanford researchers release OpenVLA, 7B parameters, the first open-source VLA for generalist robot control — a universal controller downloadable from Hugging Face.
DeepMind publishes AlphaGeometry in Nature, a neuro-symbolic system that solves International Mathematical Olympiad geometry problems at medal level, without human-annotated training data.
CrewAI launches a Python framework for orchestrating teams of LLM agents with defined roles, individual objectives, and backstories, supporting both sequential and parallel processes.
Open WebUI (formerly Ollama WebUI) delivers a full web interface for Ollama: multi-user chat, persistent history, document upload, all in a single Docker container.
SAP integrates Joule across its full stack (S/4HANA, SuccessFactors, Ariba): natural-language queries on ERP data, automated workflows, available to 300 million SAP users.
NVIDIA releases Garak, an open source tool for automated LLM vulnerability scanning: tests hallucination, prompt injection, jailbreak, and over 80 automatic probes on any API-accessible model.
MeloTTS is the first production-quality multilingual TTS to run in real-time on CPU, weighing just 50MB and supporting English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish and French.
Stanford, Berkeley, and CMU release DROID, the most diverse robot manipulation dataset ever collected: 76,000 demonstrations, 564 scenes, 86 tasks, 52 robot arms. It enables cross-embodiment generalization and is the reference for robot foundation models.
OpenAI launches the GPT Store inside ChatGPT: anyone with Plus/Team/Enterprise can publish custom GPTs. First serious attempt at an app store for AI agents.
LlamaIndex reaches stable 0.10 with 150+ data connectors, full async support, streaming, and modular query engines — becoming the reference framework for RAG pipelines with local LLMs alongside LangChain.
Anthropic demonstrates that LLMs with behavioral backdoors survive standard safety training, RLHF, and adversarial training. Chain-of-thought reasoning increases the persistence of dormant behavior rather than eliminating it.
Microsoft DeepSpeed team releases FastGen via MII: Dynamic SplitFuse scheduling for LLM serving achieves 2.3x throughput vs vLLM on production chat workloads, optimized for Azure H100.
Apptronik launches Apollo, a 1.73m 73kg humanoid with hot-swappable battery, 160W power draw and an open ROS2 API, with NASA and Mercedes-Benz partnerships already announced.
BigCode releases StarCoder2 in three sizes (3B/7B/15B) trained on 4 trillion tokens from The Stack v2 covering 619 languages, with the most transparent data governance system yet seen for a coding model.