Amazon commits up to $4 billion to Anthropic
On 25 September 2023 Anthropic announced that Amazon would invest up to $4 billion for a minority stake. Amazon Web Services became Anthropic's primary cloud provider for mission-critical workloads.
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Amazon agrees to invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic
On 25 September 2023 Amazon agreed to invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic and take a minority stake. AWS became Anthropic's primary cloud provider and gave Anthropic access to Trainium and Inferentia chips.
OpenAI announces DALL·E 3, built into ChatGPT
On 20 September 2023 OpenAI announced DALL·E 3, its third-generation image model, which was then built directly into ChatGPT; it was designed to refuse requests that imitate the style of living artists.
Anthropic publishes its Responsible Scaling Policy and Long-Term Benefit Trust
On 19 September 2023 Anthropic published its Responsible Scaling Policy, a set of protocols for managing catastrophic risks from increasingly capable AI, and described the Long-Term Benefit Trust that oversees changes to it.
Databricks raises $500 million Series I at a $43 billion valuation
On 14 September 2023 Databricks raised more than $500 million in a Series I round at a $43 billion valuation, led by funds advised by T. Rowe Price, about two months after closing its roughly $1.3 billion MosaicML acquisition .
Stability AI launches Stable Audio
On 13 September 2023 Stability AI released Stable Audio, a web tool that generates music and sound from text prompts, built on a latent diffusion model trained with licensed content from the AudioSparx library.
Microsoft releases phi-1.5
On 11 September 2023 Microsoft researchers posted the phi-1.5 technical report, a 1.3-billion-parameter model for natural-language common-sense reasoning, released openly under the MIT licence.
Tencent unveils its Hunyuan foundation model
On 7 September 2023 Tencent unveiled Hunyuan, its proprietary large foundation model, at a summit in Shenzhen. It was presented to enterprises, with access through Tencent Cloud APIs.
Anthropic launches the Claude Pro subscription
On 7 September 2023 Anthropic introduced Claude Pro, its first paid consumer plan: $20 a month in the US or GBP 18 in the UK, with five times the free tier's usage of Claude 2, priority access at busy times and early access to new features.
Baichuan releases the open Baichuan 2 models
On 6 September 2023 Baichuan released Baichuan 2, its next-generation open model family in 7B and 13B sizes, trained on 2.6 trillion tokens and published with intermediate checkpoints.
ERNIE Bot opens to the public after regulatory approval
On 31 August 2023 Baidu opened its ERNIE Bot chatbot fully to the public through a website and mobile app after Chinese regulatory approval; more than a million users tried it within a day.
AI21 Labs closes $155 million Series C
On 31 August 2023, AI21 Labs announced a $155 million Series C round with Google and Nvidia among the new investors, bringing its total capital raised to $283 million at a reported $1.4 billion valuation.
Alibaba releases the Qwen-VL vision-language models
In August 2023 Alibaba released the Qwen-VL vision-language models, built on the Qwen language model. The paper was posted to arXiv on 24 August 2023, and the code, demos and models were made public.
Hugging Face raises $235 million at a $4.5 billion valuation
On 24 August 2023 Hugging Face raised a $235 million Series D led by Salesforce Ventures, valuing the open-model hub at $4.5 billion, more than double its 2022 valuation, with chipmakers and cloud providers among the investors.
Meta releases Code Llama
On 24 August 2023 Meta released Code Llama, a family of code models built by further training Llama 2 on code. It came in 7B, 13B and 34B sizes, under the same community licence as Llama 2, and a 70B version followed in January 2024.
AgiBot unveils the Yuanzheng A1
On 18 August 2023, AgiBot released the Yuanzheng A1, its first humanoid robot, at its first public product launch. The machine was pitched as a large-model-driven, embodied-intelligence body aimed first at manufacturing.
Unitree releases the H1 humanoid
On 15 August 2023, Unitree released the H1, its first general-purpose humanoid robot, a roughly 180 cm, 47 kg machine that the company described as China's first full-size general-purpose humanoid able to run.
iFlytek releases SparkDesk V2.0 and iFlyCode
On 15 August 2023 iFlytek released SparkDesk V2.0, upgrading its large language model's coding and multimodal abilities and launching the iFlyCode programming assistant. The launch was followed by an 8.63% fall in the company's shares.
Alibaba open-sources Qwen-7B, its first open-weight model
Alibaba's first open-weight Qwen releases: Qwen-7B appeared on 3 August 2023, followed by 14B, 1.8B and 72B models, giving outside developers downloadable models from small to large, with published training volumes, context limits and benchmark scores.
ByteDance begins testing the Doubao chatbot and its Skylark model
In August 2023 a ByteDance subsidiary opened its Doubao chatbot for invitation testing, built on a model called Skylark that was among the first LLMs to pass China's algorithm registry.
Google DeepMind introduces RT-2 vision-language-action model
On 28 July 2023, Google DeepMind introduced RT-2, a vision-language-action model that carries knowledge learned from web data over to robot control and roughly doubled generalisation to unseen scenarios compared with its predecessor.