Releases

Microsoft publishes the second version of its Responsible AI Standard and supporting transparency materials.

GitHub Copilot becomes generally available to individual developers as a subscription product.

The Cerner acquisition became the foundation for Oracle Health's clinical and data-intelligence AI portfolio.

Oracle completed its acquisition of Cerner to create a major health technology and clinical-data business.

Hugging Face launched Evaluate as a unified framework for model and dataset evaluation.

Microsoft releases the Responsible AI Dashboard, combining fairness, interpretability, error analysis and causal tools in one interface.

Google Research introduces Imagen, a text-to-image diffusion model emphasizing photorealism and language understanding.

Valuation implied by the funding round "Series C funding at $2 billion valuation".

Hugging Face raised $100 million in Series C funding led by Lux Capital at a reported $2 billion post-money valuation.

Meta released the Open Pretrained Transformer family and provided OPT-175B access to researchers.

Baidu released an inference and deployment toolkit for AI models.

Anthropic raised $580 million to build steerable, interpretable, and robust AI systems and expand its research infrastructure.

Modal raised $7 million in seed financing to build its serverless cloud platform.

OpenAI introduced DALL-E 2 with higher-resolution image generation and editing capabilities.

IBM introduced z16 with Telum-powered real-time AI inference for mission-critical transactions.

Google Research introduces the 540-billion-parameter Pathways Language Model and reports strong few-shot performance across hundreds of tasks.

Midjourney released its second-generation image model.

NVIDIA expanded TAO Toolkit integration for fine-tuning and optimizing pretrained production AI models.

NVIDIA made its end-to-end GPU-accelerated recommender AI framework generally available.

NVIDIA made its multilingual speech AI SDK generally available.

NVIDIA announced its fourth-generation DGX system powered by eight H100 GPUs.

NVIDIA launched Jetson AGX Orin for next-generation robotics and autonomous machines.

NVIDIA announced the Grace Hopper Superchip, pairing a Grace CPU with a Hopper GPU using coherent memory.

NVIDIA announced the Hopper architecture and H100 GPU with a Transformer Engine for large AI models.

Microsoft completes its acquisition of Nuance, adding clinical speech recognition, ambient intelligence and conversational AI to its portfolio.