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On 25 June 2024 Stability AI appointed Prem Akkaraju, former CEO of Weta Digital, as chief executive and named former Facebook president Sean Parker executive chairman, alongside new investment from Greycroft, Coatue and others; Bloomberg reported the round at $80 million.
In June 2024 the RIAA announced that major record companies had sued Suno and Udio, two AI music generation services, alleging that building them required copying decades of copyrighted sound recordings.
On 20 June 2024 Anthropic released Claude 3.5 Sonnet, the first model of the 3.5 family, and launched Artifacts on claude.ai. It cost the same as Claude 3 Sonnet and ran twice as fast as Claude 3 Opus.
On 19 June 2024 Ilya Sutskever announced Safe Superintelligence Inc. on X, a company with one stated goal: building safe superintelligence. It raised $1 billion in September 2024.
On 17 June 2024 DeepSeek released DeepSeek-Coder-V2, an open-source mixture-of-experts code model trained on about 6 trillion additional tokens, with a 128K context window.
On 17 June 2024 Runway announced Gen-3 Alpha, a video generation model trained jointly on video and images, with finer temporal control and C2PA provenance metadata. It opened to paying subscribers on 1 July 2024.
On 14 June 2024 NVIDIA released Nemotron-4 340B, a family of base, instruct and reward models built for generating synthetic training data. It published the models under a permissive license, and the reward model topped RewardBench.
OpenVLA is an open-source vision-language-action model released in June 2024: trained on 970,000 robot manipulation trajectories and reported to beat a far larger prior model, with checkpoints, notebooks and code made public.
On 12 June 2024 Stability AI released the weights of Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, a 2-billion-parameter diffusion transformer, on Hugging Face under a non-commercial license.
On 12 June 2024 Luma Labs released Dream Machine, a free text-to-video generator that turned a written prompt into a realistic five-second clip in about two minutes, and quickly added clip extension, in-video editing and plans for APIs.
On 11 June 2024, Mistral AI closed a €600 million Series B round led by existing investor General Catalyst, valuing the company at €5.8 billion. Lightspeed, Andreessen Horowitz, Cisco Systems and Nvidia also took part.
On 10 June 2024, at WWDC, Apple announced Apple Intelligence for iOS 18, iPadOS 18 and macOS Sequoia. It introduced Private Cloud Compute and a free ChatGPT integration powered by GPT-4o.
On 6 and 7 June 2024 Alibaba released Qwen2 on Hugging Face and ModelScope. Most sizes moved to Apache 2.0, and the 72B model kept the Qianwen License.
On 6 June 2024, Kuaishou launched Kling, a text-to-video model that generates up to two-minute 1080p clips, and opened testing first in China and later worldwide. Within a month, users had generated seven million videos.
On 5 June 2024 Nvidia's market value passed $3 trillion, making it the third company to reach that level after Microsoft and Apple; two weeks later it became the world's most valuable company, driven by demand for data-center AI chips.
In June 2024 Amazon hired Adept's co-founders and some of its team and licensed the startup's agent technology, multimodal models and datasets, while Adept refocused on solutions that enable agentic AI under a new CEO.
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.
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.
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.
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.
On 22 May 2024 iFlytek made its Spark Lite API permanently free and opened Spark API capabilities for free, while pricing its top-tier Spark3.5 Max at RMB 0.21 per 10,000 tokens, in the same weeks that ByteDance, Alibaba Cloud, Baidu and Tencent cut model prices.
