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Facebook acquired natural-language interface startup Wit.ai to strengthen conversational AI capabilities.

Hivemind

Alexa

cuDNN · 1.0

Databricks raised $33 million to expand its cloud platform for large-scale data processing.

Xiaoice

Baidu Brain

Cortana

AlphaGo

Facebook formed its dedicated AI research laboratory, later known as FAIR, under Yann LeCun.

Andreessen Horowitz led Databricks' first institutional financing to commercialize Apache Spark.

Baidu Brain

Databricks was founded by seven University of California, Berkeley researchers who helped create Apache Spark.

Facebook completed its initial public offering on Nasdaq under the ticker FB.

AlexNet, trained on NVIDIA GPUs, won the ImageNet competition and helped catalyze modern deep learning adoption.

Watson DeepQA

IBM Watson

Google forms the Google Brain research initiative to pursue large-scale deep learning and neural networks.

CUDA · 1.0

AWS AI and Machine Learning

Amazon Mechanical Turk

Baidu's American depositary shares began trading on Nasdaq under BIDU.

Google completes its initial public offering on Nasdaq, establishing the public-company lineage now represented by Alphabet's GOOGL and GOOG shares.

Facebook, the company later renamed Meta, was founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Palantir Gotham

Palantir was founded to build software for integrating data and supporting consequential operational decisions.

Robin Li and Eric Xu founded Baidu in Beijing.

Larry Page and Sergey Brin incorporate Google, building a search company that would later become a major AI research, infrastructure and product provider.

Amazon completed its initial public offering on Nasdaq under the ticker AMZN.

Deep Blue

Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in Bellevue, Washington; the company later expanded from ecommerce into cloud computing, devices and artificial intelligence.

Microsoft establishes Microsoft Research to pursue long-term computer-science research, including speech, vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Microsoft completes its initial public offering on Nasdaq, establishing the public-company lineage represented by MSFT.

Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates founded the company later renamed Oracle Corporation.

Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Microsoft, beginning the company that would later build a broad AI research, cloud and product portfolio.

IBM Research AI Systems

The company that became IBM was incorporated as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company.