Releases

The company that became IBM was incorporated as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company.

IBM Research AI Systems

Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Microsoft, beginning the company that would later build a broad AI research, cloud and product portfolio.

Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates founded the company later renamed Oracle Corporation.

Microsoft completes its initial public offering on Nasdaq, establishing the public-company lineage represented by MSFT.

Microsoft establishes Microsoft Research to pursue long-term computer-science research, including speech, vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in Bellevue, Washington; the company later expanded from ecommerce into cloud computing, devices and artificial intelligence.

Deep Blue

Amazon completed its initial public offering on Nasdaq under the ticker AMZN.

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

Robin Li and Eric Xu founded Baidu in Beijing.

Facebook, the company later renamed Meta, was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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

Baidu's American depositary shares began trading on Nasdaq under BIDU.

Amazon Mechanical Turk

AWS AI and Machine Learning

CUDA · 1.0

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

Watson DeepQA

IBM Watson

AlexNet, trained on NVIDIA GPUs, won the ImageNet competition and helped catalyze modern deep learning adoption.

Facebook completed its initial public offering on Nasdaq under the ticker FB.

Baidu Brain

Databricks was founded by seven University of California, Berkeley researchers who helped create Apache Spark.

Andreessen Horowitz led Databricks' first institutional financing to commercialize Apache Spark.

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

AlphaGo

Cortana

Baidu Brain

Xiaoice

Databricks raised $33 million to expand its cloud platform for large-scale data processing.

cuDNN · 1.0

Alexa

Facebook acquired natural-language interface startup Wit.ai to strengthen conversational AI capabilities.

Amazon agreed to acquire chip-design company Annapurna Labs, strengthening its ability to build custom silicon for AWS.

Azure Machine Learning

Amazon Machine Learning

IBM Watson Health

Alexa Skills Kit

Baidu AI Cloud

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

AlphaGo

TensorFlow

Apollo

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

Co-founder Ali Ghodsi became chief executive officer of Databricks.

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.

Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit

AlphaGo

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.

Azure AI Services

NVIDIA Tesla P100

NVIDIA DGX-1

OpenAI Gym

FBLearner Flow

DSSTNE

Tensor Processing Unit

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.

Scale Data Engine

Scale API

fastText

Baidu Brain

PaddlePaddle

PyTorch

WaveNet

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

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

Apache MXNet on AWS

Amazon Polly

Amazon Lex

Amazon Rekognition

Amazon Go

OpenAI Universe

Databricks raised a $60 million Series C led by New Enterprise Associates.

watsonx Assistant

watsonx Discovery

Scale Contributor Platforms

Remotasks

Xiaodu Assistant

DuerOS

Hugging Face raised approximately $1.2 million in early angel funding to develop its conversational AI startup.

FAISS

Caffe2

Apollo

NVIDIA NGC

NVIDIA Tesla V100

Tensor Processing Unit

Cloud TPU v2

OpenAI Baselines

Transformer

RL-Teacher

Apollo Pilot

Seeing AI

Scale raised $4.5 million in Series A funding led by Accel to expand its labeled-data infrastructure.

Proximal Policy Optimization

RL-Teacher

Databricks raised $140 million in a Series D led by Andreessen Horowitz.

Project Brainwave

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.