Releases

Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI and the companies formed an exclusive cloud-computing partnership.

The completed Red Hat acquisition established the hybrid-cloud and open-source platform underpinning IBM's later AI portfolio.

IBM completed its acquisition of Red Hat to anchor an open hybrid-cloud platform for enterprise software and AI.

Facebook AI introduced wav2vec, a self-supervised approach to speech representation learning from raw audio.

Facebook AI released AI Habitat, a simulation platform for embodied AI research.

Google releases MediaPipe as a cross-platform framework for building perception and multimodal ML pipelines.

NVIDIA introduced EGX to bring real-time AI computing to edge and industrial environments.

Microsoft open-sources InterpretML for training interpretable models and explaining black-box predictions.

OpenAI introduced MuseNet, a deep neural network for generating multi-instrument musical compositions.

OpenAI Five defeated the reigning Dota 2 world champion team OG in a live best-of-three match.

FAIR researchers published a transformer language model that learned biological properties from protein sequences.

Facebook open-sourced its Deep Learning Recommendation Model reference implementation.

AWS released optimized Docker images for deep-learning training and inference.

Baidu released its first knowledge-enhanced language representation model.

Baidu introduced knowledge-enhanced pre-training through ERNIE.

OpenAI created a capped-profit entity, OpenAI LP, to scale investment in compute and talent while keeping the nonprofit mission in control.

MLflow 1.0 marked the first stable major release of the open-source ML lifecycle platform.

OpenAI introduced GPT-2 and began a staged release process due to misuse concerns.

Databricks raised $250 million led by Andreessen Horowitz, valuing the company at $2.75 billion.

Pipeline Builder became available for visual data-transformation authoring in Foundry.

Apollo's continuous-delivery capabilities became the deployment layer for Palantir software.

Workshop became available for building operational applications on the Ontology.

Palantir launched Apollo to continuously deliver and manage software across heterogeneous environments.

Aidan Gomez, Nick Frosst and Ivan Zhang founded Cohere to build broadly usable natural-language AI, later focusing on enterprise deployment.

Scale introduced a managed workspace for configuring annotation projects, instructions, quality controls, and review workflows.