| Mar 13, 1986 | Microsoft completes initial public offering Microsoft completes its initial public offering on Nasdaq, establishing the public-company lineage represented by MSFT. |  Microsoft | IPO | — | — | Microsoft Investor Relations |
| May 15, 1997 | Amazon completes initial public offering Amazon completed its initial public offering on Nasdaq under the ticker AMZN. |  Amazon | IPO | — | — | Amazon Investor Relations |
| Aug 19, 2004 | Google completes initial public offering Google completes its initial public offering on Nasdaq, establishing the public-company lineage now represented by Alphabet's GOOGL and GOOG shares. |  Google (Alphabet) | IPO | — | — | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission |
| Aug 5, 2005 | Baidu completes Nasdaq IPO Baidu's American depositary shares began trading on Nasdaq under BIDU. |  Baidu | IPO | $109M | — | Baidu |
| May 18, 2012 | Facebook initial public offering Facebook completed its initial public offering on Nasdaq under the ticker FB. |  Meta | IPO | — | — | Meta |
| Sep 25, 2013 | Series A raises $13.9 million Andreessen Horowitz led Databricks' first institutional financing to commercialize Apache Spark. |  Databricks | Funding round | $13.9M | — | VentureBeat |
| Jan 26, 2014 | Google acquires DeepMind Technologies AlphaGo | Google (Alphabet) | Acquisition | — | — | Reuters |
| Jun 30, 2014 | Series B raises $33 million Databricks raised $33 million to expand its cloud platform for large-scale data processing. | Databricks | Funding round | $33M | — | TechCrunch |
| Jan 5, 2015 | Facebook acquires Wit.ai Facebook acquired natural-language interface startup Wit.ai to strengthen conversational AI capabilities. | Meta | Acquisition | — | — | Wit.ai |
| Jan 22, 2015 | Amazon acquires Annapurna Labs Amazon agreed to acquire chip-design company Annapurna Labs, strengthening its ability to build custom silicon for AWS. | Amazon | Acquisition | — | — | Amazon |
| Dec 15, 2016 | Series C raises $60 million Databricks raised a $60 million Series C led by New Enterprise Associates. | Databricks | Funding round | $60M | — | Databricks |
| Mar 2017 | Angel funding round Hugging Face raised approximately $1.2 million in early angel funding to develop its conversational AI startup. |  Hugging Face | Funding round | $1.2M | — | Crunchbase |
| Jul 16, 2017 | Series A funding round Scale raised $4.5 million in Series A funding led by Accel to expand its labeled-data infrastructure. |  Scale AI | Funding round | $4.5M | — | Scale AI |
| Aug 22, 2017 | Series D raises $140 million Databricks raised $140 million in a Series D led by Andreessen Horowitz. | Databricks | Funding round | $140M | — | TechCrunch |
| May 20, 2018 | Microsoft acquires Semantic Machines Microsoft acquires conversational-AI startup Semantic Machines to advance more natural, context-aware dialogue systems. | Microsoft | Acquisition | — | — | Official Microsoft Blog |
| May 2018 | Seed funding round Hugging Face raised a $4 million seed round backed by investors including A.Capital, Betaworks, SV Angel, and Thirty Five Ventures. | Hugging Face | Funding round | $4M | — | Crunchbase |
| Jun 4, 2018 | Microsoft announces acquisition of GitHub GitHub Copilot | Microsoft | Acquisition | $7.5B | — | Microsoft News Center |
| Aug 8, 2018 | Series B funding round Scale raised $18 million in Series B funding led by Index Ventures with participation from Accel, Y Combinator, and other investors. | Scale AI | Funding round | $18M | — | Scale AI |
| Feb 5, 2019 | Series E raises $250 million at $2.75 billion valuation Databricks raised $250 million led by Andreessen Horowitz, valuing the company at $2.75 billion. | Databricks | Funding round | $250M | $2.75B* | Databricks |
| Jul 9, 2019 | IBM completes $34B Red Hat acquisition IBM completed its acquisition of Red Hat to anchor an open hybrid-cloud platform for enterprise software and AI. |  IBM | Acquisition | $34B | — | IBM |
| Jul 22, 2019 | Microsoft invests $1 billion and partners with OpenAI Azure OpenAI Service | Microsoft | Funding round | $1B | — | Official Microsoft Blog |
| Jul 22, 2019 | Microsoft invests $1 billion and partners with OpenAI Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI and the companies formed an exclusive cloud-computing partnership. |  OpenAI | Funding round | $1B | — | OpenAI |
| Aug 5, 2019 | Series C funding at over $1 billion valuation Scale raised $100 million in Series C funding led by Founders Fund at a valuation above $1 billion. | Scale AI | Funding round | $100M | $1B* | Scale AI |
| Sep 23, 2019 | Facebook acquires CTRL-labs Facebook agreed to acquire CTRL-labs, bringing neural-interface research into Reality Labs. | Meta | Acquisition | — | — | Meta |
| Oct 22, 2019 | Series F raises $400 million at $6.2 billion valuation Databricks raised $400 million in Series F financing at a $6.2 billion valuation. | Databricks | Funding round | $400M | $6.2B* | Databricks |
| Dec 17, 2019 | Series A funding round Hugging Face raised $15 million in a Series A led by Lux Capital to expand its open-source natural-language-processing platform. | Hugging Face | Funding round | $15M | — | TechCrunch |
| Jun 24, 2020 | Databricks acquires Redash Databricks acquired open-source visualization company Redash to expand SQL analytics and collaboration. | Databricks | Acquisition | — | — | Databricks |
| Dec 1, 2020 | Scale acquires Helia AI Scale Nucleus | Scale AI | Acquisition | — | — | Scale AI |
| Dec 1, 2020 | Series D funding above $3.5 billion valuation Scale raised $155 million in a Series D led by Tiger Global at a post-money valuation above $3.5 billion. | Scale AI | Funding round | $155M | $3.5B* | Scale AI |
| Feb 1, 2021 | Series G raises $1 billion at $28 billion valuation Databricks raised $1 billion led by Franklin Templeton at a $28 billion post-money valuation. | Databricks | Funding round | $1B | $28B* | Databricks |
| Mar 11, 2021 | Series B funding round Hugging Face raised $40 million in Series B funding led by Addition to grow its open-source machine-learning ecosystem and hosted platform. | Hugging Face | Funding round | $40M | — | TechCrunch |
| Mar 23, 2021 | Baidu completes Hong Kong secondary listing Baidu's Class A ordinary shares began trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under 9888. | Baidu | IPO | — | — | Baidu |
| Apr 12, 2021 | Microsoft announces Nuance acquisition DAX Copilot | Microsoft | Acquisition | $19.7B | — | Microsoft News Center |
| Apr 13, 2021 | Series E funding at $7.3 billion valuation Scale raised $325 million in Series E funding co-led by Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Tiger Global at a reported $7.3 billion valuation. | Scale AI | Funding round | $325M | $7.3B* | Scale AI |
| May 28, 2021 | Anthropic raises $124 million Series A Anthropic raised $124 million to pursue computationally intensive research into reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. |  Anthropic | Funding round | $124M | — | Anthropic |
| Sep 7, 2021 | Cohere raises $40M Series A Index Ventures led Cohere's $40 million Series A, with Section 32, Radical Ventures and AI researchers participating. |  Cohere | Funding round | $40M | — | Cohere / GlobeNewswire |
| Sep 9, 2021 | Series H closes at $38 billion valuation Databricks closed a $1.6 billion Series H with participation from AWS, CapitalG and Microsoft at a $38 billion post-money valuation. | Databricks | Funding round | $1.6B | $38B* | Databricks |
| Nov 3, 2021 | CoreWeave raises $50 million from Magnetar CoreWeave raised $50 million from Magnetar Capital to scale its specialized NVIDIA GPU cloud infrastructure. |  CoreWeave | Funding round | $50M | — | CoreWeave |
| Nov 3, 2021 | Scale acquires SiaSearch Scale Nucleus | Scale AI | Acquisition | — | — | TechCrunch |
| Dec 21, 2021 | Gradio joins Hugging Face Gradio | Hugging Face | Acquisition | — | — | Hugging Face |
| Jan 21, 2022 | IBM agrees to sell Watson Health assets IBM Watson Health | IBM | Acquisition | — | — | IBM |
| Feb 16, 2022 | Cohere raises $125M Series B Cohere raised $125 million in a Series B led by Tiger Global to expand its enterprise language-model platform. | Cohere | Funding round | $125M | $900M* | TechCrunch |
| Mar 4, 2022 | Microsoft completes Nuance acquisition DAX Copilot | Microsoft | Acquisition | — | — | Microsoft News Center |
| Apr 12, 2022 | Modal raises $7M seed round Modal raised $7 million in seed financing to build its serverless cloud platform. |  Modal Labs | Funding round | $7M | — | Enterprise Tech 30 |
| Apr 29, 2022 | Anthropic raises $580 million Series B Anthropic raised $580 million to build steerable, interpretable, and robust AI systems and expand its research infrastructure. | Anthropic | Funding round | $580M | — | Anthropic |
| May 9, 2022 | Series C funding at $2 billion valuation Hugging Face raised $100 million in Series C funding led by Lux Capital at a reported $2 billion post-money valuation. | Hugging Face | Funding round | $100M | $2B* | Hugging Face |
| Jun 8, 2022 | Oracle completes Cerner acquisition Oracle completed its acquisition of Cerner to create a major health technology and clinical-data business. |  Oracle | Acquisition | $28.3B | — | Oracle |
| Sep 2022 | $3.1 million seed round Perplexity raised approximately $3.1 million in seed financing from Elad Gil and a group of prominent AI and technology investors. |  Perplexity | Funding round | $3.1M | — | Reported company financing |
| Dec 2022 | CoreWeave secures $100 million strategic investment Magnetar backed CoreWeave with a $100 million strategic investment to expand GPU capacity for AI, machine learning, and visual-computing customers. | CoreWeave | Funding round | $100M | — | CoreWeave |
| Dec 30, 2022 | NVIDIA Market Cap — $359.5B (Dec 2022) NVIDIA market capitalisation at end of calendar year 2022, down 51% from the prior year amid a broader semiconductor and tech sector downturn. |  NVIDIA | Valuation | — | $360B* | StockAnalysis |
