Releases

After the cryptocurrency downturn, the company redirected its GPU fleet toward accelerated cloud workloads and changed its name to CoreWeave, Inc.

OpenAI completed the staged GPT-2 release with the 1.5-billion-parameter model and accompanying research.

Microsoft organizes Project Turing to develop large language models shared across Bing, Office, Dynamics and Azure.

Google researchers publish the T5 approach and Colossal Clean Crawled Corpus, framing diverse NLP tasks in one text-to-text format.

Databricks raised $400 million in Series F financing at a $6.2 billion valuation.

NVIDIA expanded EGX with certified servers, software and ecosystem support for AI, IoT and 5G at the edge.

Databricks introduced the MLflow Model Registry for centralized model versioning and lifecycle management.

Facebook AI released Detectron2, a modular object-detection and segmentation library.

Hugging Face released DistilBERT, a smaller and faster distilled BERT model retaining most of the teacher model’s language-understanding performance.

Hugging Face renamed pytorch-transformers to Transformers and expanded the library’s framework and architecture support.

Facebook agreed to acquire CTRL-labs, bringing neural-interface research into Reality Labs.

OpenAI released the 774-million-parameter GPT-2 model and shared further analysis of misuse and detection.

Scale raised $100 million in Series C funding led by Founders Fund at a valuation above $1 billion.

Baidu released an open OCR toolkit built on PaddlePaddle.

Baidu published a continual pre-training framework for incremental multi-task learning.

Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAI and becomes its exclusive cloud partner for new Azure AI supercomputing technologies.

Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI and the companies formed an exclusive cloud-computing partnership.

The completed Red Hat acquisition established the hybrid-cloud and open-source platform underpinning IBM's later AI portfolio.

IBM completed its acquisition of Red Hat to anchor an open hybrid-cloud platform for enterprise software and AI.

Facebook AI introduced wav2vec, a self-supervised approach to speech representation learning from raw audio.

Facebook AI released AI Habitat, a simulation platform for embodied AI research.

Google releases MediaPipe as a cross-platform framework for building perception and multimodal ML pipelines.

NVIDIA introduced EGX to bring real-time AI computing to edge and industrial environments.

Microsoft open-sources InterpretML for training interpretable models and explaining black-box predictions.

OpenAI introduced MuseNet, a deep neural network for generating multi-instrument musical compositions.