Releases

Baidu Brain

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

Baidu Brain

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.

AWS AI and Machine Learning

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.