Releases

OpenAI released Jukebox, a neural network that generated music including rudimentary singing as raw audio.

AWS and Facebook jointly released TorchServe, an open-source model-serving library for PyTorch.

Notion raised $50 million in new funding during the expansion of its collaborative workspace.

Hugging Face introduced its high-performance Rust-backed Tokenizers library for production-scale text preprocessing.

Microsoft open-sources DeepSpeed with the ZeRO optimizer to reduce the compute and memory cost of large-model training.

Oracle launched a managed collaborative environment for building, training and deploying machine-learning models.

Microsoft introduces Turing-NLG, a 17-billion-parameter generative language model and, at the time, the largest published language model.

Databricks articulated the lakehouse architecture, combining data-lake openness with data-warehouse management and performance.

Surge AI launched a high-skill data-labeling and human-feedback platform for artificial-intelligence development.

Foundry ML capabilities became available for operational machine learning.

Model Studio became available for developing and operationalizing machine-learning models.

Foundry added managed coding environments for data science and software work.

Baidu released its open NLP development library for PaddlePaddle.

CoreWeave established a managed, multi-tenant Kubernetes cloud running directly on bare metal for GPU-accelerated machine-learning and inference workloads.

Scale began supporting U.S. defense and national-security AI programs, extending its data infrastructure into government missions.

Hugging Face raised $15 million in a Series A led by Lux Capital to expand its open-source natural-language-processing platform.

AWS launched automated model building with full visibility into generated models and notebooks.

AWS launched a web-based integrated development environment for machine learning.

AWS introduced managed human-review workflows for machine-learning predictions.

AWS introduced an intelligent enterprise-search service using machine learning and natural-language queries.

AWS introduced ML-powered code review and performance recommendations.

AWS made Inferentia-powered EC2 instances generally available for machine-learning inference.

AWS introduced a generative-AI learning service and musical keyboard.

CoreWeave launched its specialized cloud business around on-demand NVIDIA GPU infrastructure for compute-intensive workloads.

After the cryptocurrency downturn, the company redirected its GPU fleet toward accelerated cloud workloads and changed its name to CoreWeave, Inc.