Google (Alphabet)
GOOGLGoogle is Alphabet Inc.'s principal technology subsidiary. This profile tracks Google's AI portfolio—including Google DeepMind, Google Research, Gemini, Gemma, Vertex AI, TPUs, AI-powered products, scientific AI and open-source machine-learning infrastructure—while public-market valuation refers to Alphabet's consolidated equity value.
October 20262
Oct 5, 2026Antigravity May 2026 preview reaches listed shutdown dateScheduledModel deprecation
Google lists October 5, 2026 as the shutdown date for antigravity-preview-05-2026 in the Gemini API. Developers are directed to migrate to antigravity-preview-09-2026.
Oct 1, 2026Alphabet market capitalization reaches $4.137 trillionValuation
Alphabet Inc., Google's publicly traded parent, closed with an estimated consolidated equity market capitalization of $4.1367 trillion. Google LLC is not separately listed, so this is the public-market value used for the Google company profile.
September 20268
Sep 30, 2026Gemini 4 Argon announcedAnnouncedModel release
Google announces Gemini 4 Argon, initially making it available to trusted cybersecurity defenders and evaluators ahead of broader rollout.
Sep 24, 2026Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar launchedModel release
Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar through Gemini Enterprise for real-time audiovisual agent experiences.
Sep 24, 2026Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS releasedModel release
Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS for expressive, controllable text-to-speech generation.
Sep 15, 2026Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking launchedModel release
Google launches an Extended Thinking variant of Gemini 3.8 Live for deeper real-time reasoning.
Sep 15, 2026Gemini 3.8 Live launchedModel release
Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live for low-latency, real-time multimodal voice and video interactions.
Sep 3, 2026WeatherNext 3 introducedModel release
Google DeepMind introduces WeatherNext 3, advancing probabilistic and high-resolution operational weather forecasting.
Sep 2, 2026Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber enters trusted-defender accessModel release
Google introduces Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber to trusted cybersecurity defenders for evaluation and high-risk defensive workflows.
Sep 2, 2026Gemini 3.8 Flash launchedModel release
Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash as a generally available production model with stronger reasoning, coding and agentic capabilities.
August 20263
Aug 27, 2026Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash launchedModel release
Google releases Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash for native real-time multimodal generation and editing.
Aug 26, 2026Gemini 3.5 Transcribe launchedModel release
Google launches Gemini 3.5 Transcribe for accurate, multilingual speech-to-text workloads.
Aug 13, 2026Gemini 3.7 Flash launchedModel release
Google launches Gemini 3.7 Flash, improving intelligence and multimodal performance while retaining low latency.
July 20263
Jul 21, 2026Gemini 3.6 Flash launchedModel release
Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash with stronger reasoning and agentic performance at Flash-class latency.
Jul 21, 2026Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber introducedModel release
Google DeepMind introduces Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber for defensive cybersecurity analysis and agentic workflows.
Jul 21, 2026Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite launchedModel release
Google launches Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite for cost-efficient production workloads.
June 20261
Jun 10, 2026DiffusionGemma releasedOpen weights
Google releases DiffusionGemma as an open diffusion-based model in the Gemma ecosystem.
May 20263
May 19, 2026Google Antigravity expands with enterprise integrationsFeature update
Google expands Antigravity with new capabilities and integration into Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.
May 19, 2026Gemini Omni introducedModel release
Google introduces Gemini Omni, a native multimodal model family designed to accept and generate across multiple media, beginning with video.
May 19, 2026Gemini 3.5 Flash launched at Google I/OModel release
Google launches Gemini 3.5 Flash across Google AI Studio, Antigravity and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.
April 20264
Apr 22, 2026Vertex AI roadmap moves into Gemini Enterprise Agent PlatformProduct launch
Google Cloud announces that future Vertex AI services and roadmap evolution will be delivered through Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform.
Apr 22, 2026Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform launchedProduct launch
Google Cloud launches Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform as the evolution of Vertex AI for building, scaling and governing AI agents.
Apr 15, 2026Gemini 3.1 Flash Audio launchedModel release
Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash Audio for real-time and batch audio understanding and generation.
Apr 2, 2026Gemma 4 releasedOpen weights
Google releases Gemma 4 open models and makes them available through Google Cloud's AI development stack.
March 20261
Mar 3, 2026Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite launchedModel release
Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite for low-cost, high-throughput multimodal workloads.
February 20262
Feb 26, 2026Gemini 3.1 Flash Image launchedModel release
Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash Image for fast, controllable image generation and editing.
Feb 19, 2026Gemini 3.1 Pro launchedModel release
Google launches Gemini 3.1 Pro with advances in reasoning, coding and long-running agentic tasks.
January 20261
Jan 14, 2026FunctionGemma releasedOpen weights
Google releases FunctionGemma, a compact open model specialized for function calling and on-device agent workflows.
December 20251
Dec 17, 2025Gemini 3 Flash launchedModel release
Google launches Gemini 3 Flash as a fast, production-oriented model in the Gemini 3 family.
November 20254
Nov 20, 2025Gemini 3 Pro Image launches as Nano Banana ProModel release
Google launches Gemini 3 Pro Image, branded Nano Banana Pro, for professional image generation and editing.
Nov 18, 2025Google Antigravity launchedProduct launch
Google launches Antigravity, an agent-first development environment built around autonomous planning, coding and verification.
Nov 18, 2025Gemini 3 Pro launchedModel release
Google launches Gemini 3 Pro for advanced multimodal reasoning, coding and agentic work.
Nov 6, 2025Ironwood TPU reaches general availabilityProduct launch
Google Cloud announces general availability of Ironwood, its seventh-generation TPU for training and inference.
October 20254
Oct 23, 2025Google Cloud and Anthropic expand TPU partnershipPartnership
Google Cloud and Anthropic expand their infrastructure partnership, with Anthropic planning access to up to one million TPUs for Claude training and serving.
Oct 15, 2025Veo 3.1 launchedModel release
Google launches Veo 3.1 with richer audio, stronger narrative control and reference-image guidance.
Oct 9, 2025Gemini Enterprise launchedProduct launch
Google Cloud launches Gemini Enterprise as an enterprise agentic platform connecting models, data, agents and governance.
Oct 7, 2025Gemini 2.5 Computer Use released in previewModel release
Google releases Gemini 2.5 Computer Use in preview for agents that interact with graphical user interfaces.
September 20253
Sep 25, 2025Gemini Robotics 1.5 introducedModel release
Google DeepMind introduces Gemini Robotics 1.5 and an embodied-reasoning model for more capable robot agents.
Sep 25, 2025Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite reaches general availabilityModel release
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite becomes generally available for high-volume, latency-sensitive applications.
Sep 4, 2025EmbeddingGemma releasedOpen weights
Google releases EmbeddingGemma, an open multilingual embedding model optimized for on-device retrieval.
August 20252
Aug 5, 2025Genie 3 world model introducedResearch paper
Google DeepMind introduces Genie 3, a general-purpose world model that generates interactive environments in real time.
Aug 1, 2025Gemini 2.5 Deep Think released to Gemini Ultra subscribersModel release
Google releases Deep Think, a parallel-thinking mode based on Gemini 2.5, to Gemini Ultra subscribers.
June 20256
Jun 26, 2025Gemma 3n fully releasedOpen weights
Google releases Gemma 3n weights and tools for efficient multimodal AI on edge devices.
Jun 25, 2025AlphaGenome introducedModel release
Google DeepMind introduces AlphaGenome to predict regulatory effects of DNA sequence variants at high resolution.
Jun 24, 2025Gemini Robotics On-Device introducedModel release
Google DeepMind introduces an on-device vision-language-action model that runs locally on robots.
Jun 23, 2025Agent2Agent protocol donated to the Linux FoundationPartnership
Google transfers the A2A protocol project to the Linux Foundation to support neutral, industry-wide governance.
Jun 17, 2025Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite enters previewModel release
Google introduces Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite as a high-throughput, low-cost model in preview.
Jun 17, 2025Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash reach general availabilityModel release
Google makes Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 2.5 Flash generally available for developers and enterprises.
May 20256
May 20, 2025AI Mode expands broadly in the United StatesFeature update
Google begins broad US rollout of AI Mode in Search and previews agentic and personalized capabilities.
May 20, 2025Gemma 3n previewed for on-device multimodal AIOpen weights
Google previews Gemma 3n, an efficient multimodal open model designed for phones, laptops and edge devices.
May 20, 2025Flow AI filmmaking tool launchedProduct launch
Google launches Flow, an AI filmmaking tool using Veo, Imagen and Gemini for cinematic content creation.
May 20, 2025Imagen 4 launchedModel release
Google launches Imagen 4 with Standard, Fast and Ultra variants for higher-quality image generation.
May 20, 2025Veo 3 launched with native audioModel release
Google launches Veo 3 with synchronized dialogue, sound effects and ambient audio generated with video.
May 14, 2025AlphaEvolve introducedResearch paper
Google DeepMind introduces AlphaEvolve, a Gemini-powered evolutionary coding agent for algorithm discovery and optimization.
April 20254
Apr 17, 2025Gemini 2.5 Flash enters previewModel release
Google introduces Gemini 2.5 Flash with hybrid reasoning and controls over how much the model thinks.
Apr 9, 2025Agent2Agent protocol introducedSDK release
Google introduces the open Agent2Agent protocol with more than 50 partners to enable interoperable agent collaboration.
Apr 9, 2025Agent Development Kit open-sourcedSDK release
Google Cloud releases the open-source Agent Development Kit for building and orchestrating multi-agent systems.
Apr 9, 2025Ironwood seventh-generation TPU announcedProduct launch
Google Cloud announces Ironwood, its seventh-generation TPU designed for large-scale inference and thinking models.
March 20254
Mar 25, 2025Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental introducedModel release
Google introduces Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental as a thinking model for complex reasoning and coding tasks.
Mar 12, 2025Gemini Robotics models introducedModel release
Google DeepMind introduces Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robotics-ER for embodied reasoning and robot control.
Mar 12, 2025Gemma 3 open models releasedOpen weights
Google releases Gemma 3, a multimodal and multilingual open-model family designed to run on a single accelerator.
Mar 5, 2025AI Mode begins testing in SearchProduct launch
Google begins testing AI Mode, a conversational Search experience for complex, multimodal questions and follow-ups.
February 20253
Feb 5, 2025Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite enters public previewModel release
Google releases Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite in public preview as its lowest-cost Gemini 2.0 model.
Feb 5, 2025Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental releasedModel release
Google releases an experimental Gemini 2.0 Pro for coding and complex prompts with a two-million-token context window.
Feb 5, 2025Gemini 2.0 Flash reaches general availabilityModel release
Gemini 2.0 Flash becomes generally available through the Gemini API, Google AI Studio and Vertex AI.
January 20252
Jan 30, 2025Gemini app upgrades to Gemini 2.0 FlashFeature update
Google rolls out Gemini 2.0 Flash as the default model in the Gemini app.
Jan 22, 2025Google invests an additional $1 billion in AnthropicFunding round
Google makes an additional $1 billion investment in Anthropic, extending its financial and cloud partnership with the AI developer.
December 20247
Dec 16, 2024Veo 2 introducedModel release
Google DeepMind introduces Veo 2 with improved realism, physics and camera controls for video generation.
Dec 13, 2024Google Agentspace announcedProduct launch
Google Cloud announces Agentspace for enterprise search, conversational assistance and task-oriented agents grounded in company data.
Dec 11, 2024Jules coding agent announcedProduct launch
Google announces Jules, an asynchronous coding agent that works on GitHub repositories and presents changes for review.
Dec 11, 2024Gemini Deep Research launchesFeature update
The Gemini app launches Deep Research, using long context and reasoning to investigate topics and compile reports.
Dec 11, 2024Gemini 2.0 Flash experimental releasedModel release
Google releases experimental Gemini 2.0 Flash with native tool use, multimodal output and real-time streaming capabilities.
Dec 5, 2024PaliGemma 2 releasedOpen weights
Google releases PaliGemma 2, expanding the open vision-language family with new model sizes and resolutions.
Dec 4, 2024Genie 2 world model introducedResearch paper
Google DeepMind introduces Genie 2, capable of generating diverse playable 3D environments from a prompt image.
September 20241
Sep 11, 2024NotebookLM adds Audio OverviewsFeature update
NotebookLM adds Audio Overviews, generating conversational podcast-style discussions grounded in notebook sources.
August 20242
Aug 15, 2024Imagen 3 becomes broadly availableModel release
Google begins broad availability of Imagen 3 through ImageFX and later expands access through Gemini and Vertex AI.
Aug 2, 2024Google DeepMind leaders join Google from Character.AI partnershipPartnership
Google enters a non-exclusive technology licensing agreement with Character.AI and brings co-founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, plus members of their research team, into Google DeepMind.
July 20241
Jul 31, 2024ShieldGemma safety models releasedOpen weights
Google releases ShieldGemma, open safety classifiers built on Gemma 2 for filtering model inputs and outputs.
June 20241
Jun 27, 2024Gemma 2 releasedOpen weights
Google releases Gemma 2, led by a 27B model with improved performance and efficiency.
May 202410
May 14, 2024AI Overviews launches in US SearchProduct launch
Google launches AI Overviews in the United States, integrating generative summaries and supporting web links into Search.
May 14, 2024Imagen 3 announcedModel release
Google introduces Imagen 3 with improved photorealism, prompt understanding and text rendering.
May 14, 2024Trillium sixth-generation TPU announcedProduct launch
Google announces Trillium, its sixth-generation TPU, with major gains in compute performance and energy efficiency.
May 14, 2024Project Astra demonstratedEvent
Google DeepMind demonstrates Project Astra, a real-time multimodal assistant prototype that perceives and reasons across continuous context.
May 14, 2024Veo generative video model announcedModel release
Google DeepMind introduces Veo, a high-definition generative video model with cinematic controls.
May 14, 2024PaliGemma vision-language model releasedOpen weights
Google releases PaliGemma, an open vision-language model for image-text tasks.
May 14, 2024Gemini 1.5 Pro receives two-million-token private previewModel update
Google expands Gemini 1.5 Pro to a two-million-token context window in private preview.
May 14, 2024Gemini 1.5 Flash introducedModel release
Google introduces Gemini 1.5 Flash, a fast and efficient multimodal model with a one-million-token context window.
May 8, 2024AlphaFold Server launchedProduct launch
Google DeepMind launches AlphaFold Server for free research access to AlphaFold 3 predictions.
May 8, 2024AlphaFold 3 introducedModel release
Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs introduce AlphaFold 3 for predicting structures and interactions across biomolecules.
April 20241
Apr 9, 2024CodeGemma releasedOpen weights
Google releases CodeGemma variants for code completion, code generation and instruction following.
March 20241
Mar 13, 2024SIMA generalist game agent introducedResearch paper
Google DeepMind introduces SIMA, an instructable agent that follows natural-language directions across multiple 3D environments.
February 20246
Feb 26, 2024Genie generative interactive environments introducedResearch paper
Google DeepMind introduces Genie, a generative interactive environment model trained from unlabelled internet videos.
Feb 22, 2024Gemini Code Assist launchedProduct launch
Google Cloud launches Gemini Code Assist, evolving Duet AI for Developers into a Gemini-powered coding assistant.
Feb 21, 2024Gemma open models launchedOpen weights
Google releases Gemma 2B and 7B open models with weights and responsible AI tooling.
Feb 15, 2024Gemini 1.5 Pro introducedModel release
Google DeepMind introduces Gemini 1.5 Pro with a mixture-of-experts architecture and a one-million-token context window.
Feb 8, 2024Gemini 1.0 Ultra reaches users through Gemini AdvancedModel release
Gemini 1.0 Ultra becomes available to consumers through the new Gemini Advanced subscription.
Feb 8, 2024Bard becomes Gemini and Gemini Advanced launchesProduct launch
Google renames Bard to Gemini, launches the Gemini mobile experience and introduces Gemini Advanced with Ultra 1.0.
January 20242
Jan 17, 2024Google and Samsung bring Gemini to Galaxy S24Partnership
Google Cloud and Samsung announce deployment of Gemini Pro and Imagen 2 for Galaxy AI features, while Gemini Nano powers on-device experiences.
Jan 12, 2024AMIE diagnostic-dialogue research introducedResearch paper
Google Research introduces AMIE, a research AI system optimized for diagnostic medical dialogue.
December 20238
Dec 13, 2023Imagen 2 becomes available on Vertex AIModel release
Google makes Imagen 2 available to Cloud customers through Vertex AI for enterprise image generation.
Dec 13, 2023Google AI Studio launchedProduct launch
Google launches AI Studio as a browser-based workspace for prototyping prompts and building with the Gemini API.
Dec 13, 2023Gemini API and Google AI Studio launchedAPI release
Google releases the Gemini API through Google AI Studio and Vertex AI, giving developers access to Gemini Pro.
Dec 6, 2023Cloud TPU v5p announcedProduct launch
Google Cloud announces TPU v5p, a large-scale accelerator system for training foundation models.
Dec 6, 2023Gemini 1.0 Nano releasedModel release
Gemini 1.0 Nano launches for efficient on-device AI, initially on Pixel hardware.
Dec 6, 2023Gemini 1.0 Pro releasedModel release
Gemini 1.0 Pro launches in Bard and for developers as the balanced model in the initial family.
Dec 6, 2023Gemini 1.0 family launchedModel release
Google DeepMind launches Gemini 1.0 in Ultra, Pro and Nano sizes as its first natively multimodal foundation-model family.
Dec 6, 2023Gemini 1.0 Ultra announcedModel release
Gemini 1.0 Ultra is introduced as the largest and most capable initial Gemini model.
November 20233
Nov 29, 2023GNoME predicts new stable materialsResearch paper
Google DeepMind reports that GNoME identified 2.2 million new crystal structures, including hundreds of thousands of stable candidates.
Nov 16, 2023Lyria and AI music tools introducedModel release
Google DeepMind and YouTube introduce Lyria alongside experimental music-generation tools Dream Track and Music AI Tools.
Nov 14, 2023GraphCast research publishedResearch paper
Google DeepMind publishes GraphCast, a machine-learning model for fast, accurate medium-range global weather forecasts.
October 20231
Oct 27, 2023Google commits up to $2 billion to Anthropic partnershipPartnership
Google agrees to invest up to $2 billion in Anthropic, deepening a strategic AI partnership that also includes Google Cloud infrastructure.
September 20231
Sep 19, 2023AlphaMissense classifies missense variantsResearch paper
Google DeepMind publishes AlphaMissense predictions for the effects of millions of human missense variants.
August 20231
Aug 29, 2023SynthID image watermarking launchedProduct launch
Google DeepMind and Google Cloud introduce SynthID for imperceptibly watermarking and identifying AI-generated images.
July 20231
Jul 12, 2023NotebookLM launches as Project Tailwind experimentProduct launch
Google Labs begins early access to NotebookLM, an AI notebook grounded in users' selected source material.
May 20232
May 10, 2023Vertex AI Model Garden launchedProduct launch
Google Cloud launches Model Garden to discover, customize and deploy Google and third-party foundation models.
May 10, 2023PaLM 2 launchedModel release
Google launches PaLM 2, improving multilingual, reasoning and coding capabilities across Google products and Cloud.
April 20231
Apr 20, 2023Google Brain and DeepMind combine as Google DeepMindEvent
Google combines the DeepMind and Google Brain teams into a single unit, Google DeepMind, led by Demis Hassabis.
March 20232
Mar 21, 2023Bard opens to the publicProduct launch
Google begins opening Bard access in the United States and United Kingdom as an early generative-AI experiment.
Mar 14, 2023Google Cloud introduces generative AI support in Vertex AIFeature update
Google Cloud announces generative AI capabilities in Vertex AI and Generative AI App Builder for enterprise customers.
February 20232
Feb 6, 2023Bard announced for trusted testersProduct launch
Google announces Bard, a LaMDA-powered conversational AI service, for trusted testers ahead of public access.
Feb 3, 2023Google Cloud and Anthropic announce AI partnershipPartnership
Google Cloud and Anthropic announce a strategic partnership covering cloud infrastructure, AI accelerators and responsible development of large AI systems.
January 20231
Jan 26, 2023MusicLM research introducedResearch paper
Google Research introduces MusicLM, a hierarchical text-to-music generation model for high-fidelity audio.
December 20221
Dec 26, 2022Med-PaLM research introducedResearch paper
Google Research presents Med-PaLM, adapting PaLM to medical question answering and clinical knowledge benchmarks.
October 20221
Oct 7, 2022AudioLM research introducedResearch paper
Google Research introduces AudioLM for generating long-term coherent, high-fidelity audio from discrete representations.
July 20221
Jul 28, 2022AlphaFold Database expands to more than 200 million structuresFeature update
The AlphaFold database expands to predicted structures for nearly every catalogued protein known to science.
May 20221
May 23, 2022Imagen research introducedResearch paper
Google Research introduces Imagen, a text-to-image diffusion model emphasizing photorealism and language understanding.
April 20221
Apr 4, 2022PaLM 540B introducedResearch paper
Google Research introduces the 540-billion-parameter Pathways Language Model and reports strong few-shot performance across hundreds of tasks.
July 20212
Jul 22, 2021AlphaFold Protein Structure Database launchedProduct launch
DeepMind and EMBL-EBI launch a freely accessible database of AlphaFold protein structure predictions.
Jul 15, 2021AlphaFold 2 methods and code releasedOpen weights
DeepMind publishes AlphaFold 2's methodology and releases source code, expanding access to high-accuracy protein prediction.
May 20213
May 18, 2021Cloud TPU v4 announcedProduct launch
Google announces fourth-generation TPU pods for large-scale machine-learning training.
May 18, 2021Vertex AI launchedProduct launch
Google Cloud launches Vertex AI as a unified platform for building, deploying and operating ML models.
May 18, 2021LaMDA announced at Google I/OModel release
Google introduces LaMDA as a conversational language model designed for open-ended dialogue.
December 20201
Dec 23, 2020MuZero research published in NatureResearch paper
DeepMind publishes MuZero, which plans using a learned model without being told the environment's underlying rules.
November 20201
Nov 30, 2020AlphaFold 2 solves the CASP14 protein-folding challengeBenchmark result
AlphaFold 2 demonstrates accuracy competitive with experimental structures at CASP14, marking a major protein-folding breakthrough.
October 20191
Oct 23, 2019T5 unifies NLP tasks as text-to-textResearch paper
Google researchers publish the T5 approach and Colossal Clean Crawled Corpus, framing diverse NLP tasks in one text-to-text format.
June 20191
Jun 14, 2019MediaPipe open sourcedSDK release
Google releases MediaPipe as a cross-platform framework for building perception and multimodal ML pipelines.
December 20181
Dec 2, 2018AlphaFold places first at CASP13Benchmark result
DeepMind's first AlphaFold system achieves top performance in the CASP13 protein-structure prediction assessment.
November 20182
Nov 2018JAX released as an open-source numerical computing librarySDK release
Google Research releases JAX for composable automatic differentiation and accelerator-backed numerical computing.
Nov 2, 2018BERT open-sourcedOpen weights
Google open-sources BERT, enabling bidirectional pre-training for language understanding and downstream NLP tasks.
December 20171
Dec 5, 2017AlphaZero masters chess, shogi and GoResearch paper
DeepMind publishes AlphaZero, a general self-play reinforcement-learning system for multiple board games.
June 20171
Jun 12, 2017Attention Is All You Need introduces the TransformerResearch paper
Google researchers introduce the Transformer architecture, replacing recurrence with attention and reshaping modern sequence modeling.
May 20172
May 17, 2017Google declares an AI-first strategyEvent
At Google I/O, the company frames its strategic transition from mobile-first to AI-first products and computing.
May 17, 2017Cloud TPU v2 announcedProduct launch
Google announces its second-generation TPU and plans to offer Cloud TPUs to Google Cloud customers.
September 20161
Sep 8, 2016WaveNet research publishedResearch paper
DeepMind introduces WaveNet, a neural generative model for raw audio waveforms that substantially improves speech synthesis.
May 20161
May 18, 2016Google introduces its Tensor Processing UnitProduct launch
Google publicly reveals the TPU, a custom accelerator designed to speed machine-learning workloads in its data centers.
March 20161
Mar 15, 2016AlphaGo defeats Lee SedolBenchmark result
AlphaGo wins its landmark five-game match against 18-time world champion Lee Sedol by four games to one.
November 20151
Nov 9, 2015TensorFlow open-sourcedOpen weights
Google releases TensorFlow as an open-source machine-learning framework, making internal deep-learning infrastructure broadly available.
October 20152
Oct 15, 2015AlphaGo defeats European champion Fan HuiBenchmark result
AlphaGo becomes the first computer program to defeat a professional Go player without handicaps on a full-sized board.
Oct 2, 2015Alphabet holding-company structure takes effectEvent
Google completes its reorganization under Alphabet Inc.; Google becomes the principal operating subsidiary while Alphabet becomes the publicly traded parent.
January 20141
Jan 26, 2014Google acquires DeepMind TechnologiesAcquisition
Google agrees to acquire London-based artificial-intelligence company DeepMind Technologies, bringing its research team into Google.
January 20111
2011Google Brain research project beginsNews
Google forms the Google Brain research initiative to pursue large-scale deep learning and neural networks.
August 20041
Aug 19, 2004Google completes initial public offeringIPO
Google completes its initial public offering on Nasdaq, establishing the public-company lineage now represented by Alphabet's GOOGL and GOOG shares.
September 19981
Sep 4, 1998Google foundedEvent
Larry Page and Sergey Brin incorporate Google, building a search company that would later become a major AI research, infrastructure and product provider.
* Market cap / valuation. Company values are AI-attributed: the latest market cap or valuation × the share attributed to AI (100% for pure AI companies). Methodology

