Releases

Microsoft publishes the second version of its Responsible AI Standard and supporting transparency materials.

The Cerner acquisition became the foundation for Oracle Health's clinical and data-intelligence AI portfolio.

Meta announced the AI Research SuperCluster, a large AI supercomputer designed to train advanced models.

Facebook renamed the parent company Meta Platforms to reflect its long-term focus on building the metaverse.

Scale established a dedicated St. Louis operations center to develop skilled U.S. data and evaluation workforces for government programs.

Hugging Face helped launch the BigScience open research workshop, coordinating an international collaboration to train a large multilingual language model.

Erik Bernhardsson and Akshat Bubna founded Modal to build a developer-friendly serverless cloud for compute-intensive workloads.

Anthropic was founded at the beginning of 2021 as an AI safety and research company led by Dario and Daniela Amodei.

AWS announced its first custom chip purpose-built for high-performance machine-learning training.

Microsoft spins Xiaoice into an independent company while retaining an investment interest.

After the cryptocurrency downturn, the company redirected its GPU fleet toward accelerated cloud workloads and changed its name to CoreWeave, Inc.

Microsoft organizes Project Turing to develop large language models shared across Bing, Office, Dynamics and Azure.

OpenAI created a capped-profit entity, OpenAI LP, to scale investment in compute and talent while keeping the nonprofit mission in control.

Aidan Gomez, Nick Frosst and Ivan Zhang founded Cohere to build broadly usable natural-language AI, later focusing on enterprise deployment.

AWS announced its first custom machine-learning inference chip.

The founders turned an experimental cryptocurrency-mining GPU setup into a business and expanded through opportunistic purchases of GPU hardware.

Michael Intrator, Brian Venturo, and Brannin McBee formed The Atlantic Crypto Corporation LLC, the company that later became CoreWeave.

At Google I/O, the company frames its strategic transition from mobile-first to AI-first products and computing.

Microsoft creates the AI and Research Group, combining research, information-platform and AI product teams under Harry Shum.

Alexandr Wang and Lucy Guo founded Scale in San Francisco and entered Y Combinator to build an API for routing human work, which evolved into AI data infrastructure.

Microsoft takes the Tay social chatbot offline after coordinated abuse caused it to produce offensive content, prompting a public review of safeguards and social-AI deployment.

Clément Delangue, Julien Chaumond, and Thomas Wolf founded Hugging Face in New York, initially building a conversational AI companion before pivoting toward open machine learning.

OpenAI launched as a nonprofit artificial intelligence research company with a mission to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

Baidu reported a milestone in fully autonomous road testing under complex conditions.

Google completes its reorganization under Alphabet Inc.; Google becomes the principal operating subsidiary while Alphabet becomes the publicly traded parent.