Tencent launches the Yuanbao AI assistant
Tencent released Yuanbao, a consumer AI assistant built on its own Hunyuan model, on 30 May 2024, offering search, chat, document handling and image generation across mobile, desktop and the web.
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Mistral AI releases Codestral, its first code model
On 29 May 2024 Mistral AI released Codestral, a 22-billion-parameter open-weight code model trained on more than 80 programming languages, with a 32K context window and weights under a non-production licence.
Anthropic demos 'Golden Gate Claude', a model obsessed with the Golden Gate Bridge
A 24-hour public demo in which Anthropic clamped a single internal feature — the Golden Gate Bridge — at ten times its maximum activation in Claude 3 Sonnet, so that the model steered everyday answers back to the bridge.
Cohere For AI releases Aya 23 open-weight models
On 23 May 2024 Cohere For AI published Aya 23, a family of multilingual models covering 23 languages. Its 8B and 35B open-weight models were built on Cohere's Command family and carry a non-commercial licence.
Baichuan launches Baichuan 4 and the Baixiaoying assistant
On 22 May 2024 Baichuan unveiled Baichuan 4 and its assistant Baixiaoying in Beijing, presenting the assistant as a step toward an AI super app.
Volcano Engine launches the Doubao model family and cuts LLM prices
On 15 May 2024 Volcano Engine, ByteDance's cloud unit, launched the Doubao model family and priced its main model far below rivals, starting a price war in China's enterprise AI market.
Google introduces Gemini 1.5 Flash at I/O 2024
On 14 May 2024, at Google I/O, Google introduced Gemini 1.5 Flash, a lighter and faster model distilled from Gemini 1.5 Pro, alongside a 2-million-token context window for 1.5 Pro, Project Astra and Gemma 2.
Google unveils Imagen 3 and Veo at I/O
On 14 May 2024 at Google I/O, Google announced Imagen 3, its highest-quality text-to-image model at the time, and Veo, a video model producing 1080p clips over a minute long. Both opened in private preview.
Google launches AI Overviews in Search
At Google I/O in May 2024, Google began rolling out AI Overviews, Gemini-generated summaries at the top of search results, to everyone in the US; the feature later reached over 100 countries and drew criticism for erroneous answers.
Google DeepMind shows Project Astra at I/O
At Google I/O on 14 May 2024, Demis Hassabis presented Project Astra, Google DeepMind's vision for future AI assistants: a system that continuously encodes video and speech into a cacheable timeline of events.
Tencent open-sources the Hunyuan-DiT text-to-image model
On 14 May 2024 Tencent posted the technical report for Hunyuan-DiT, a 1.5-billion-parameter text-to-image model, and publicly released its code and pretrained models.
01.AI launches Yi-Large and the Wanzhi app
On 13 May 2024 01.AI launched the closed Yi-Large model and the free Wanzhi app at its first-anniversary event, and opened its API platform worldwide the same day.
01.AI open-sources Yi-1.5 under Apache 2.0
On 13 May 2024 01.AI open-sourced the Yi-1.5 series in 34B, 9B and 6B sizes under Apache 2.0, as part of its first-anniversary event that also launched the closed Yi-Large model.
OpenAI introduces GPT-4o
On 13 May 2024 OpenAI announced GPT-4o ("GPT-4 Omni"), its new flagship model, which it said can reason across audio, vision and text in real time. Developers could use it through the API the same day.
Unitree introduces the G1 humanoid robot
On 13 May 2024, Hangzhou-based Unitree Robotics launched the G1 humanoid robot at a starting price of 99,000 yuan, well below the 150,000–200,000 yuan that China Daily reported for many competing machines.
Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs unveil AlphaFold 3
On 8 May 2024, Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs announced AlphaFold 3, a model that predicts the structures and interactions of proteins, DNA, RNA and ligands, and that Google reported as the first AI system to outperform physics-based tools for biomolecular structure prediction.
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V2 with Multi-head Latent Attention
On 7 May 2024 DeepSeek published the DeepSeek-V2 technical report, a 236B mixture-of-experts model with 21B activated parameters per token and Multi-head Latent Attention.
Anthropic launches the Claude Team plan and iOS app
On 1 May 2024 Anthropic announced a Claude Team plan at $30 per user per month with a five-seat minimum, plus a free Claude iOS app that syncs chat history with the web.
GitHub Copilot Workspace enters technical preview
On 29 April 2024 GitHub opened the technical preview of Copilot Workspace, a task-centric environment where a repository, issue or pull request becomes an editable plan and code, with the developer keeping control.
Snowflake open-sources the 480B hybrid model Arctic
On 24 April 2024 Snowflake announced Arctic, a large language model aimed squarely at enterprise work such as SQL generation, coding and instruction following, and released it with training recipes as well as weights.
SenseTime launches SenseNova 5.0, benchmarking against GPT-4 Turbo
On 23 April 2024 SenseTime released SenseNova 5.0 and benchmarked it against GPT-4 Turbo, and its shares surged more than 30% before trading was suspended.