Releases

Replit launched its browser-based development workspace.

Shield AI introduced Nova for autonomous reconnaissance in buildings and GPS-denied environments.

Palantir established the Ontology as Foundry's semantic and operational layer.

Data Connection became Foundry's connector and ingestion layer.

Palantir introduced Foundry as its enterprise data operations platform.

Baidu began building enterprise cloud services that evolved into Baidu AI Cloud.

IBM created Watson Health to apply data and cognitive-computing technologies across healthcare and life sciences.

AWS launched its first managed machine-learning service for building predictive models from data in S3, Redshift and RDS.

Microsoft makes Azure Machine Learning generally available as a cloud platform for creating and deploying predictive models.

Amazon introduced the Alexa voice service with the first Echo smart speaker.

Microsoft launches Xiaoice, a social conversational AI designed for long-term, emotionally engaging interactions.

Microsoft introduces Cortana as a personal digital assistant for Windows Phone, later expanding it across Windows and Microsoft 365.

Amazon launched a marketplace for human intelligence tasks that became widely used for labeling and evaluating machine-learning data.

Palantir's earliest government-focused platform evolved into Gotham, its operational intelligence system for defense and intelligence workflows.