Releases

Oracle released managed image analysis, object detection and custom vision models.

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.