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.
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Anthropic publishes 'Mapping the Mind of a Large Language Model'
On May 21, 2024, Anthropic published research that used dictionary learning to map millions of concepts, called features, inside Claude 3 Sonnet — including one that responds to the Golden Gate Bridge.
AI Seoul Summit adopts the Seoul Declaration
On 21 May 2024, ten countries and the European Union signed the Seoul Declaration at the AI Seoul Summit, one of three outcome documents that tied government statements to the Frontier AI Safety Commitments and the Hiroshima Process International Code of Conduct.
OpenAI dissolves the Superalignment team after Sutskever and Leike exit
In May 2024 OpenAI's chief scientist Ilya Sutskever left the company, followed days later by Superalignment co-leader Jan Leike; OpenAI then disbanded the team, and Leike publicly said safety had "taken a backseat to shiny products".
Google DeepMind introduces its Frontier Safety Framework
On 17 May 2024 Google DeepMind published a framework of protocols for identifying AI capabilities that could cause severe harm, evaluating models against defined Critical Capability Levels, and applying mitigations when a model reaches them.
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.
CoreWeave raises a $1.1 billion Series C at a $19 billion valuation
On 1 May 2024 CoreWeave announced a $1.1 billion Series C round led by Coatue at a $19 billion valuation, up from $7 billion a few months earlier, and weeks later closed a $7.5 billion debt facility led by Blackstone.
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.
Scale AI closes a $1 billion Series F at a $13.8 billion valuation
In May 2024 Scale AI closed a $1 billion financing at a $13.8 billion valuation, led by existing investor Accel, with participation from existing backers such as NVIDIA and new ones including Amazon, Meta and Intel Capital.
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.