Releases

AWS introduced an end-to-end condition-monitoring system using sensors and machine learning.

AWS introduced predictive maintenance from industrial sensor data.

AWS introduced a computer-vision service for visual defect and anomaly detection.

AWS introduced an ML-powered service for detecting abnormal operational behavior and recommending remediation.

AWS introduced pretrained models and solution templates to accelerate machine-learning deployment.

AWS announced its first custom chip purpose-built for high-performance machine-learning training.

AlphaFold 2 demonstrates accuracy competitive with experimental structures at CASP14, marking a major protein-folding breakthrough.

Transformers v4 began its release cycle with broad framework and architecture support and a standardized model API.

NVIDIA introduced a deskside AI system with four A100 GPUs for workgroups.

NVIDIA doubled A100 accelerator memory to 80GB using HBM2e.

Facebook AI released M2M-100, a multilingual machine-translation model translating directly between 100 languages.

Baidu opened Apollo Go autonomous ride-hailing to public users in Beijing.

NVIDIA introduced Maxine, a cloud-native suite of GPU-accelerated AI video-conferencing and streaming software.

Scale released the core Nucleus workspace for dataset visualization, search, curation, collaboration, and model-error analysis.

Scale launched Nucleus as a dataset-management and model-debugging workspace for visualizing, curating, searching, and collaborating on machine-learning data.

Scale introduced a self-serve, pay-as-you-go product for receiving production-quality labels and instruction feedback in as little as one hour.

Microsoft spins Xiaoice into an independent company while retaining an investment interest.

Scale launched a mapping product for computer-vision and autonomous path-planning workflows.

Hugging Face began its hosted inference platform with a serverless API for models on the Hub, later expanding into dedicated endpoints and provider routing.

Hugging Face introduced a hosted API for running models from the Hub without managing serving infrastructure.

Databricks acquired open-source visualization company Redash to expand SQL analytics and collaboration.

Facebook AI introduced wav2vec 2.0 for self-supervised speech learning with limited labeled data.

OpenAI launched a general-purpose API for accessing its language models.

Microsoft Research introduces DeBERTa, improving Transformer language models with disentangled attention and enhanced mask decoding.

OpenAI published GPT-3, demonstrating few-shot learning at 175 billion parameters.