Releases

watsonx Assistant

watsonx Discovery

Scale Contributor Platforms

Remotasks

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

Amazon Go

OpenAI Universe

Amazon Polly

Amazon Lex

Amazon Rekognition

Apache MXNet on AWS

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

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

WaveNet

Baidu Brain

PaddlePaddle

PyTorch

fastText

Scale Data Engine

Scale API

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.

Tensor Processing Unit

DSSTNE

FBLearner Flow

OpenAI Gym

NVIDIA Tesla P100

NVIDIA DGX-1

Azure AI Services

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.

AlphaGo

Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit

Replit Workspace

Replit Platform

Nova

Palantir Ontology

Data Connection

Palantir Foundry

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.

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

Apollo

TensorFlow

AlphaGo

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

Baidu AI Cloud

Alexa Skills Kit

IBM Watson Health

Amazon Machine Learning

Azure Machine Learning

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