Releases

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.

Scale acquired real-time video-understanding startup Helia AI and brought its team and infrastructure expertise into the Nucleus platform.

Scale raised $155 million in a Series D led by Tiger Global at a post-money valuation above $3.5 billion.

AWS introduced machine-learning-based anomaly detection for business and operational metrics.

AWS introduced an end-to-end condition-monitoring system using sensors and machine learning.

AWS introduced predictive maintenance from industrial sensor data.

AWS introduced a computer-vision service for visual defect and anomaly detection.

AWS introduced an ML-powered service for detecting abnormal operational behavior and recommending remediation.

AWS introduced pretrained models and solution templates to accelerate machine-learning deployment.

AWS announced its first custom chip purpose-built for high-performance machine-learning training.

AlphaFold 2 demonstrates accuracy competitive with experimental structures at CASP14, marking a major protein-folding breakthrough.