Releases

Baidu introduced its in-house Kunlun AI computing architecture.

Baidu launched a full-featured machine-learning platform for algorithm developers.

Apollo 3.0 added production support for autonomous minibuses, delivery vehicles and valet parking.

Baidu launched a PaddlePaddle development and education platform for model building.

Baidu Brain 3.0 added multimodal semantic understanding and more than 110 AI capabilities.

OpenAI presented its five-agent Dota 2 system trained through large-scale self-play.

IBM Research demonstrated an AI system that generated evidence-backed arguments and debated a human expert.

OpenAI published the original GPT approach: generative pre-training followed by discriminative fine-tuning.

Databricks introduced MLflow as an open-source platform for managing the machine-learning lifecycle.

Microsoft agrees to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion in stock, bringing the developer platform that later launched GitHub Copilot into Microsoft.

NVIDIA introduced the Jetson AGX Xavier embedded AI computer for autonomous machines.

Hugging Face raised a $4 million seed round backed by investors including A.Capital, Betaworks, SV Angel, and Thirty Five Ventures.

Microsoft acquires conversational-AI startup Semantic Machines to advance more natural, context-aware dialogue systems.

Microsoft releases the first public preview of ML.NET, bringing cross-platform machine learning to .NET developers.

Microsoft researchers introduce Fairlearn to assess and mitigate unfairness in machine-learning systems.

Apollo 2.5 added high-speed-road support, lower costs, developer improvements and ApolloScape datasets.

Oracle released the first Autonomous Database cloud service, powered by machine-learning automation.

NVIDIA introduced Clara as a medical imaging and healthcare AI computing platform.

NVIDIA introduced DGX-2 with 16 V100 GPUs connected by NVSwitch for large-scale AI training.

Apollo 2.0 added cloud services, reference hardware and vehicle platforms for simple urban roads.

Runway launched a web platform for accessible machine-learning-powered creative tools.

Runway was founded as an applied AI research company for creative media.

Shield AI deployed its Hivemind-powered autonomy in combat operations.

Quiver became available for time-series and engineering analysis in Foundry.

Contour became available as Foundry's point-and-click analytical application.

NVIDIA launched TITAN V, bringing Volta Tensor Core AI acceleration to desktop systems.

DeepMind publishes AlphaZero, a general self-play reinforcement-learning system for multiple board games.

AWS introduced managed natural-language processing for entity, sentiment, language and topic extraction.

AWS introduced a managed neural machine-translation service.

AWS introduced a managed automatic speech-recognition service.

AWS introduced a programmable deep-learning-enabled video camera for edge computer-vision development.

AWS launched an end-to-end managed platform for building, training and deploying machine-learning models.

Baidu upgraded DuerOS with expanded conversational AI capabilities.

Microsoft and Databricks announced Azure Databricks, a first-party Apache Spark analytics service on Azure.

Baidu launched a no-code interface for training and deploying custom AI models.

Oracle unveiled a self-driving database cloud using machine learning for tuning, patching, security and operations.

Microsoft and Facebook introduce the Open Neural Network Exchange format to improve model interoperability across AI frameworks.

The founders turned an experimental cryptocurrency-mining GPU setup into a business and expanded through opportunistic purchases of GPU hardware.

Michael Intrator, Brian Venturo, and Brannin McBee formed The Atlantic Crypto Corporation LLC, the company that later became CoreWeave.

Databricks raised $140 million in a Series D led by Andreessen Horowitz.

Microsoft introduces Project Brainwave, an FPGA-based architecture for real-time deep-learning inference in cloud and edge systems.

OpenAI released code for training reinforcement-learning agents from human feedback.

OpenAI introduced PPO, a family of policy-gradient methods designed for stability and simplicity.

Scale raised $4.5 million in Series A funding led by Accel to expand its labeled-data infrastructure.

Microsoft launches Seeing AI, an accessibility application that narrates people, text, products and surroundings for blind and low-vision users.

Baidu introduced a production-oriented intelligent-driving solution for automakers.

OpenAI and DeepMind researchers showed how agents can learn complex behavior from human preference comparisons.

Google researchers introduce the Transformer architecture, replacing recurrence with attention and reshaping modern sequence modeling.

OpenAI released Baselines, open-source high-quality implementations of reinforcement-learning algorithms.

At Google I/O, the company frames its strategic transition from mobile-first to AI-first products and computing.