Releases

Cohere provided a browser playground for testing its hosted language models and generation settings.

Cohere's initial commercial platform included text classification for enterprise NLP workflows.

Index Ventures led Cohere's $40 million Series A, with Section 32, Radical Ventures and AI researchers participating.

Cohere made its hosted language-model platform available to businesses alongside its Series A financing.

Hugging Face launched Optimum to optimize Transformers models for specialized hardware and inference runtimes.

NVIDIA made its AI Enterprise software suite generally available.

The Telum announcement established a new generation of IBM infrastructure with integrated AI acceleration.

IBM unveiled Telum with on-chip AI acceleration for high-volume transactional inference.

Baidu said its second-generation Kunlun AI chip had entered mass production.

OpenAI introduced Codex, a descendant of GPT-3 that translates natural language into code.

Scale established a dedicated St. Louis operations center to develop skilled U.S. data and evaluation workforces for government programs.

DeepMind and EMBL-EBI launch a freely accessible database of AlphaFold protein structure predictions.

DeepMind publishes AlphaFold 2's methodology and releases source code, expanding access to high-accuracy protein prediction.

Baidu published its unified framework for knowledge-enhanced language understanding and generation.

AWS founder Andy Jassy succeeded Jeff Bezos as Amazon's chief executive officer.

Shield AI acquired Martin UAV, bringing the V-BAT vertical-takeoff aircraft into its portfolio.

GitHub launches Copilot in technical preview as an AI pair programmer that suggests code inside the editor.

NVIDIA made Fleet Command generally available for centrally deploying and managing edge AI applications.

NVIDIA launched a hosted enterprise program offering immediate access to its end-to-end AI infrastructure and software stack.

Hugging Face launched AutoTrain to automate model training and fine-tuning from user-provided datasets.

Anthropic raised $124 million to pursue computationally intensive research into reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Databricks introduced a managed Feature Store integrated with Delta Lake, MLflow and model serving.

Databricks introduced Unity Catalog as a unified governance layer for data and AI assets across clouds.

Databricks introduced AutoML to automatically train models while generating editable notebooks.

Facebook AI introduced unsupervised speech recognition using unpaired speech audio and text.

Google announces fourth-generation TPU pods for large-scale machine-learning training.

Google Cloud launches Vertex AI as a unified platform for building, deploying and operating ML models.

Google introduces LaMDA as a conversational language model designed for open-ended dialogue.

Hugging Face introduced a paid individual plan with expanded private, storage, and compute capabilities on the Hub.

Hugging Face helped launch the BigScience open research workshop, coordinating an international collaboration to train a large multilingual language model.

Hugging Face launched Accelerate to let PyTorch code run across distributed hardware with minimal changes.

Scale raised $325 million in Series E funding co-led by Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Tiger Global at a reported $7.3 billion valuation.

Microsoft agrees to acquire Nuance Communications for $19.7 billion including net debt, expanding its healthcare and conversational-AI capabilities.

NVIDIA introduced Morpheus for real-time AI-assisted threat detection using GPUs and BlueField DPUs.

NVIDIA introduced Base Command to provision, schedule and operate shared DGX SuperPOD AI infrastructure.

Baidu's Class A ordinary shares began trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under 9888.

Hugging Face raised $40 million in Series B funding led by Addition to grow its open-source machine-learning ecosystem and hosted platform.

NVIDIA announced an enterprise software suite for virtualized AI workloads on VMware vSphere.

Replit announced a $20 million Series A led by A.Capital.

Databricks and Google Cloud launched Databricks on Google Cloud, completing availability across the three major clouds.

Databricks raised $1 billion led by Franklin Templeton at a $28 billion post-money valuation.

OpenAI introduced CLIP, a neural network trained on image-text pairs for transferable visual recognition.

OpenAI introduced DALL-E, a model that generates images from text descriptions.

David Holz founded Midjourney as an independent research laboratory focused on new mediums of thought and visual imagination.

Erik Bernhardsson and Akshat Bubna founded Modal to build a developer-friendly serverless cloud for compute-intensive workloads.

Anthropic was founded at the beginning of 2021 as an AI safety and research company led by Dario and Daniela Amodei.

DeepMind publishes MuZero, which plans using a learned model without being told the environment's underlying rules.

NVIDIA opened the Omniverse collaboration and simulation platform to beta users.

AWS introduced a HIPAA-eligible health data lake using FHIR and machine learning.

AWS introduced tools for bias detection and model explainability.