Releases

Baidu opened its Silicon Valley AI Lab to expand foundational AI research.

Facebook formed its dedicated AI research laboratory, later known as FAIR, under Yann LeCun.

Baidu established its Institute of Deep Learning, later known as the Beijing Deep Learning Lab.

Databricks was founded by seven University of California, Berkeley researchers who helped create Apache Spark.

Google forms the Google Brain research initiative to pursue large-scale deep learning and neural networks.

Amazon launched AWS with Amazon S3, establishing the cloud platform that later became the foundation for its AI infrastructure and managed AI services.

Facebook, the company later renamed Meta, was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Robin Li and Eric Xu founded Baidu in Beijing.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin incorporate Google, building a search company that would later become a major AI research, infrastructure and product provider.

Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in Bellevue, Washington; the company later expanded from ecommerce into cloud computing, devices and artificial intelligence.

Microsoft establishes Microsoft Research to pursue long-term computer-science research, including speech, vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates founded the company later renamed Oracle Corporation.

Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Microsoft, beginning the company that would later build a broad AI research, cloud and product portfolio.

The company that became IBM was incorporated as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company.