Releases
3325 matching — model launches, API releases, product updates, financial events and news.
August 20192
Aug 5, 2019
Series C funding at over $1 billion valuationFunding round
Scale raised $100 million in Series C funding led by Founders Fund at a valuation above $1 billion.
Aug 2019
PaddleOCR project launchesSDK release
Baidu released an open OCR toolkit built on PaddlePaddle.
July 20195
Jul 29, 2019ERNIE 2.0 research releasedResearch paper
Baidu published a continual pre-training framework for incremental multi-task learning.
Jul 22, 2019
Microsoft invests $1 billion and partners with OpenAIFunding round
Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAI and becomes its exclusive cloud partner for new Azure AI supercomputing technologies.
Jul 22, 2019
Microsoft invests $1 billion and partners with OpenAIFunding round
Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI and the companies formed an exclusive cloud-computing partnership.
Jul 9, 2019
Red Hat becomes IBM's hybrid-cloud AI foundationPartnership
The completed Red Hat acquisition established the hybrid-cloud and open-source platform underpinning IBM's later AI portfolio.
Jul 9, 2019IBM completes $34B Red Hat acquisitionAcquisition
IBM completed its acquisition of Red Hat to anchor an open hybrid-cloud platform for enterprise software and AI.
June 20193
Jun 21, 2019
wav2vec publishedResearch paper
Facebook AI introduced wav2vec, a self-supervised approach to speech representation learning from raw audio.
Jun 14, 2019AI Habitat platform releasedSDK release
Facebook AI released AI Habitat, a simulation platform for embodied AI research.
Jun 14, 2019
MediaPipe open sourcedSDK release
Google releases MediaPipe as a cross-platform framework for building perception and multimodal ML pipelines.
May 20192
May 27, 2019
NVIDIA launches EGX edge computing platformProduct launch
NVIDIA introduced EGX to bring real-time AI computing to edge and industrial environments.
May 16, 2019InterpretML open-sourcedSDK release
Microsoft open-sources InterpretML for training interpretable models and explaining black-box predictions.
April 20193
Apr 25, 2019MuseNet introducedModel release
OpenAI introduced MuseNet, a deep neural network for generating multi-instrument musical compositions.
Apr 15, 2019OpenAI Five defeats Dota 2 world championsBenchmark result
OpenAI Five defeated the reigning Dota 2 world champion team OG in a live best-of-three match.
Apr 3, 2019ESM-1b protein language model publishedResearch paper
FAIR researchers published a transformer language model that learned biological properties from protein sequences.
March 20196
Mar 31, 2019DLRM open-sourcedModel release
Facebook open-sourced its Deep Learning Recommendation Model reference implementation.
Mar 27, 2019
AWS Deep Learning Containers releasedSDK release
AWS released optimized Docker images for deep-learning training and inference.
Mar 16, 2019ERNIE 1.0 releasedModel release
Baidu released its first knowledge-enhanced language representation model.
Mar 16, 2019ERNIE foundation-model family introducedResearch paper
Baidu introduced knowledge-enhanced pre-training through ERNIE.
Mar 11, 2019OpenAI LP establishedNews
OpenAI created a capped-profit entity, OpenAI LP, to scale investment in compute and talent while keeping the nonprofit mission in control.
Mar 2019EliseAI seed roundFunding round
EliseAI raised approximately $1.9 million in seed funding.
February 20193
Feb 21, 2019
MLflow reaches 1.0Feature update
MLflow 1.0 marked the first stable major release of the open-source ML lifecycle platform.
Feb 14, 2019GPT-2 announced with staged releaseModel release
OpenAI introduced GPT-2 and began a staged release process due to misuse concerns.
Feb 5, 2019Series E raises $250 million at $2.75 billion valuationFunding round
Databricks raised $250 million led by Andreessen Horowitz, valuing the company at $2.75 billion.
January 20191
2019Speak launches in South KoreaProduct launch
Speak launched its AI-powered English-learning app in South Korea, its first market.