Releases

NVIDIA introduced DGX-2 with 16 V100 GPUs connected by NVSwitch for large-scale AI training.

Apollo 2.0 added cloud services, reference hardware and vehicle platforms for simple urban roads.

NVIDIA launched TITAN V, bringing Volta Tensor Core AI acceleration to desktop systems.

DeepMind publishes AlphaZero, a general self-play reinforcement-learning system for multiple board games.

AWS introduced managed natural-language processing for entity, sentiment, language and topic extraction.

AWS introduced a managed neural machine-translation service.

AWS introduced a managed automatic speech-recognition service.

AWS introduced a programmable deep-learning-enabled video camera for edge computer-vision development.

AWS launched an end-to-end managed platform for building, training and deploying machine-learning models.

Baidu upgraded DuerOS with expanded conversational AI capabilities.

Microsoft and Databricks announced Azure Databricks, a first-party Apache Spark analytics service on Azure.

Baidu launched a no-code interface for training and deploying custom AI models.

Oracle unveiled a self-driving database cloud using machine learning for tuning, patching, security and operations.

Microsoft and Facebook introduce the Open Neural Network Exchange format to improve model interoperability across AI frameworks.

The founders turned an experimental cryptocurrency-mining GPU setup into a business and expanded through opportunistic purchases of GPU hardware.

Michael Intrator, Brian Venturo, and Brannin McBee formed The Atlantic Crypto Corporation LLC, the company that later became CoreWeave.

Databricks raised $140 million in a Series D led by Andreessen Horowitz.

Microsoft introduces Project Brainwave, an FPGA-based architecture for real-time deep-learning inference in cloud and edge systems.

OpenAI released code for training reinforcement-learning agents from human feedback.

OpenAI introduced PPO, a family of policy-gradient methods designed for stability and simplicity.

Scale raised $4.5 million in Series A funding led by Accel to expand its labeled-data infrastructure.

Microsoft launches Seeing AI, an accessibility application that narrates people, text, products and surroundings for blind and low-vision users.

Baidu introduced a production-oriented intelligent-driving solution for automakers.

OpenAI and DeepMind researchers showed how agents can learn complex behavior from human preference comparisons.

Google researchers introduce the Transformer architecture, replacing recurrence with attention and reshaping modern sequence modeling.

OpenAI released Baselines, open-source high-quality implementations of reinforcement-learning algorithms.

At Google I/O, the company frames its strategic transition from mobile-first to AI-first products and computing.

Google announces its second-generation TPU and plans to offer Cloud TPUs to Google Cloud customers.

NVIDIA introduced its GPU Cloud catalog, later branded NGC, for optimized deep-learning containers and software.

NVIDIA introduced the Volta architecture and V100 GPU, including Tensor Cores built for deep learning.

Baidu announced its open autonomous-driving platform.

Facebook released the Caffe2 deep-learning framework for scalable cross-platform training and deployment.

Facebook AI Research released FAISS for efficient similarity search and clustering of dense vectors.

Hugging Face raised approximately $1.2 million in early angel funding to develop its conversational AI startup.

Baidu introduced its voice-assistant experience powered by DuerOS.

Baidu introduced its conversational AI operating system for devices and services.

IBM commercialized enterprise conversational-AI tooling that evolved into watsonx Assistant.

IBM launched an AI-powered enterprise search and document-understanding service.

Scale began building distributed contributor platforms and training operations to support large-scale annotation, expert-data, and evaluation programs.

Scale launched Remotasks to train and coordinate distributed contributors performing data annotation and review tasks.

Databricks raised a $60 million Series C led by New Enterprise Associates.

Amazon unveiled a checkout-free store using computer vision, sensor fusion and deep learning.

OpenAI released Universe, a software platform for training intelligent agents across games, websites, and applications.

AWS introduced a managed text-to-speech service with natural-sounding voices.

AWS introduced the conversational AI service built from the speech recognition and language understanding technology behind Alexa.

AWS introduced managed image analysis for object, scene and face detection.

AWS selected MXNet as its preferred deep-learning framework and committed engineering investment to the open-source project.

Microsoft creates the AI and Research Group, combining research, information-platform and AI product teams under Harry Shum.

Oracle introduced the infrastructure platform that became OCI, later forming the base for its managed AI services and GPU cloud.

DeepMind introduces WaveNet, a neural generative model for raw audio waveforms that substantially improves speech synthesis.