DeepSeek merges its chat and coder models into DeepSeek-V2.5
On 5 September 2024 DeepSeek merged its chat and coder models into DeepSeek-V2.5, which kept both conversational ability and code processing and went live on its web chat and API.
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Tencent launches Hunyuan Turbo on Tencent Cloud
In September 2024 Tencent introduced its next-generation Hunyuan Turbo model and made it available on Tencent Cloud, claiming large efficiency gains and parity with GPT-4o on various benchmarks.
01.AI open-sources the Yi-Coder code models
On 5 September 2024 01.AI released the open Yi-Coder code models in 1.5B and 9B sizes. The 9B chat model scored 23.4% on LiveCodeBench, above every other model under 10 billion parameters, according to the company.
Ai2 releases OLMoE, an open mixture-of-experts model
In September 2024 Ai2 released OLMoE, a mixture-of-experts language model with 7B total but 1B active parameters per token, and published its weights, data, code and training logs.
MiniMax launches the video-01 video generator in Hailuo AI
In September 2024 MiniMax released video-01, a video-generation model inside its Hailuo AI platform, which turns text prompts into short clips; the model later became the focus of a U.S. copyright suit filed by major studios.
Kuaishou releases Kling 1.5
In September 2024 Kuaishou released Kling 1.5, a new version of its AI video generator that added 1080p output, improved motion and prompt adherence, and a motion brush, while keeping the price unchanged.
Anthropic launches Claude for Enterprise
In September 2024 Anthropic announced Claude for Enterprise, aimed at organisations that work with internal knowledge. It offered a 500K-token context window, single sign-on, audit logs and a GitHub integration.
Alibaba releases Qwen2-VL with 20-minute video understanding
On 29 August 2024 Alibaba released Qwen2-VL, a vision-language model that understands videos over 20 minutes long. The 2B and 7B models were open-sourced under Apache 2.0, and the 72B model was initially API-only.
AI21 Labs releases Jamba 1.5 Mini and Large
On 22 August 2024 AI21 Labs published Jamba 1.5, a pair of hybrid Transformer-Mamba models. It also open-sourced ExpertsInt8, a quantisation technique that lets the Large model run on eight 80 GB GPUs.
AgiBot releases five commercial humanoids
On 18 August 2024 AgiBot released five commercial humanoid robots in its Yuanzheng and Lingxi families, opened mass production, set out a G1–G5 embodied-intelligence roadmap, and launched open-source and ecosystem programmes.
xAI releases Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini in beta
On 13 August 2024 xAI released Grok-2 and Grok-2 mini in beta to X Premium subscribers. In August 2025 it published the Grok 2.5 weights on Hugging Face.
Figure launches Figure 02
Figure AI released Figure 02, a humanoid robot with redesigned hardware and software, six onboard cameras, an onboard vision-language model and hands that can grasp 25 kg, as it works toward mass production for industrial users.
Zhipu open-sources the CogVideoX video model
On 6 August 2024 Zhipu AI and Tsinghua University opened the CogVideoX text-to-video models, starting with CogVideoX-2B. The 5B version followed on 27 August 2024, and the family is the open-source counterpart of Zhipu's Ying product.
Black Forest Labs launches with the FLUX.1 image models
On 1 August 2024 Black Forest Labs announced itself and released the FLUX.1 text-to-image models, backed by a $31 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz.
Microsoft releases Phi-3.5 mini, MoE and vision
In August 2024 Microsoft released three Phi-3.5 models, mini, MoE and vision, all with a 128K-token context and under the MIT licence.
Meta releases SAM 2 for video and image segmentation
On 29 July 2024 Meta released SAM 2, one model that segments objects in both images and videos from simple prompts, running in real time. Its code and weights were released under open licences.
Kling AI opens global beta
On 25 July 2024 Kuaishou opened full beta testing of its Kling AI video generator to users worldwide, replacing application-gated early access with open sign-up, daily free credits and tiered subscriptions.
Mistral AI releases Mistral Large 2
On 24 July 2024 Mistral AI released Mistral Large 2, a 123-billion-parameter dense language model with a 128K context window, whose weights were published on Hugging Face under a research licence and which launched across several cloud platforms.
OpenHands platform published
An open platform first described in an arXiv preprint on 23 July 2024 under the name OpenDevin, letting AI agents write code, use a command line and browse the web in sandboxed environments; later accepted at ICLR 2025 and now presented as OpenHands.
Meta releases Llama 3.1 405B, an open frontier-scale model
On 23 July 2024 Meta released Llama 3.1 in 8B, 70B and 405B sizes. Meta called the 405B model the world's largest and most capable openly available foundation model, trained on over 15 trillion tokens with more than 16,000 H100 GPUs.
OpenAI releases GPT-4o mini
On 18 July 2024 OpenAI released GPT-4o mini, a smaller, cheaper version of GPT-4o that replaced GPT-3.5 Turbo in ChatGPT and cost $0.15 per million input tokens.