Releases

Oracle released a managed natural-language processing API for classification, entity extraction and sentiment.

Oracle released managed automatic speech recognition and transcription.

Oracle introduced a portfolio of managed AI APIs spanning language, speech, vision, anomaly detection and forecasting.

CoreWeave raised $50 million from Magnetar Capital to scale its specialized NVIDIA GPU cloud infrastructure.

Scale acquired Berlin-based SiaSearch and folded its petabyte-scale sensor-data search technology and team into Scale Nucleus.

Microsoft introduces Azure OpenAI Service, providing managed access to OpenAI models through Azure's enterprise cloud controls.

Facebook renamed the parent company Meta Platforms to reflect its long-term focus on building the metaverse.

Facebook AI and university partners introduced Ego4D, a large egocentric video dataset and benchmark suite.

Scale moved Rapid into general availability for fast labeling experiments without data minimums.

Hugging Face launched Spaces with native Gradio support, allowing community members to host interactive machine-learning demos on the Hub.

Databricks closed a $1.6 billion Series H with participation from AWS, CapitalG and Microsoft at a $38 billion post-money valuation.

Cohere's hosted API made semantic text representations available to enterprise developers.

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.

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.

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