Releases

NVIDIA introduced Clara as a medical imaging and healthcare AI computing platform.

NVIDIA introduced DGX-2 with 16 V100 GPUs connected by NVSwitch for large-scale AI training.

Apollo 2.0 added cloud services, reference hardware and vehicle platforms for simple urban roads.

Runway launched a web platform for accessible machine-learning-powered creative tools.

Shield AI deployed its Hivemind-powered autonomy in combat operations.

Quiver became available for time-series and engineering analysis in Foundry.

Contour became available as Foundry's point-and-click analytical application.

NVIDIA launched TITAN V, bringing Volta Tensor Core AI acceleration to desktop systems.

AWS introduced managed natural-language processing for entity, sentiment, language and topic extraction.

AWS introduced a managed neural machine-translation service.

AWS introduced a managed automatic speech-recognition service.

AWS introduced a programmable deep-learning-enabled video camera for edge computer-vision development.

AWS launched an end-to-end managed platform for building, training and deploying machine-learning models.

Baidu upgraded DuerOS with expanded conversational AI capabilities.

Baidu launched a no-code interface for training and deploying custom AI models.

Oracle unveiled a self-driving database cloud using machine learning for tuning, patching, security and operations.

Microsoft launches Seeing AI, an accessibility application that narrates people, text, products and surroundings for blind and low-vision users.

Baidu introduced a production-oriented intelligent-driving solution for automakers.

Google announces its second-generation TPU and plans to offer Cloud TPUs to Google Cloud customers.

NVIDIA introduced its GPU Cloud catalog, later branded NGC, for optimized deep-learning containers and software.

NVIDIA introduced the Volta architecture and V100 GPU, including Tensor Cores built for deep learning.

Baidu announced its open autonomous-driving platform.

Baidu introduced its voice-assistant experience powered by DuerOS.

Baidu introduced its conversational AI operating system for devices and services.

IBM commercialized enterprise conversational-AI tooling that evolved into watsonx Assistant.