Releases

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.

Google announces its second-generation TPU and plans to offer Cloud TPUs to Google Cloud customers.

NVIDIA introduced its GPU Cloud catalog, later branded NGC, for optimized deep-learning containers and software.

NVIDIA introduced the Volta architecture and V100 GPU, including Tensor Cores built for deep learning.

Baidu announced its open autonomous-driving platform.

Facebook released the Caffe2 deep-learning framework for scalable cross-platform training and deployment.

Facebook AI Research released FAISS for efficient similarity search and clustering of dense vectors.

Hugging Face raised approximately $1.2 million in early angel funding to develop its conversational AI startup.

Baidu introduced its voice-assistant experience powered by DuerOS.

Baidu introduced its conversational AI operating system for devices and services.

IBM commercialized enterprise conversational-AI tooling that evolved into watsonx Assistant.

IBM launched an AI-powered enterprise search and document-understanding service.