Releases

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.

Shield AI acquired Martin UAV, bringing the V-BAT vertical-takeoff aircraft into its portfolio.

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.