Releases

DeepMind publishes AlphaZero, a general self-play reinforcement-learning system for multiple board games.

Google researchers introduce the Transformer architecture, replacing recurrence with attention and reshaping modern sequence modeling.

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

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

DeepMind introduces WaveNet, a neural generative model for raw audio waveforms that substantially improves speech synthesis.

Google publicly reveals the TPU, a custom accelerator designed to speed machine-learning workloads in its data centers.

AlphaGo wins its landmark five-game match against 18-time world champion Lee Sedol by four games to one.

Google releases TensorFlow as an open-source machine-learning framework, making internal deep-learning infrastructure broadly available.

AlphaGo becomes the first computer program to defeat a professional Go player without handicaps on a full-sized board.

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

Google agrees to acquire London-based artificial-intelligence company DeepMind Technologies, bringing its research team into Google.

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

Google completes its initial public offering on Nasdaq, establishing the public-company lineage now represented by Alphabet's GOOGL and GOOG shares.

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