Releases

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.

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.