Releases

2164 matching — model launches, API releases, product updates, financial events and news.

Date	Release	Company	Type	Amount	Valuation	Source
Jun 25, 2015	Alexa Skills Kit launched Alexa Skills Kit	Amazon	SDK release	—	—	Amazon Developer
Apr 13, 2015	IBM launches Watson Health IBM Watson Health	IBM	Product launch	—	—	IBM
Apr 9, 2015	Amazon Machine Learning launched Amazon Machine Learning	Amazon	Product launch	—	—	AWS News Blog
Feb 18, 2015	Azure Machine Learning becomes generally available Azure Machine Learning	Microsoft	Product launch	—	—	Microsoft Azure Blog
Jan 22, 2015	Amazon acquires Annapurna Labs Amazon agreed to acquire chip-design company Annapurna Labs, strengthening its ability to build custom silicon for AWS.	Amazon	Acquisition	—	—	Amazon
Jan 5, 2015	Facebook acquires Wit.ai Facebook acquired natural-language interface startup Wit.ai to strengthen conversational AI capabilities.	Meta	Acquisition	—	—	Wit.ai
Nov 6, 2014	Amazon introduces Alexa and Echo Alexa	Amazon	Product launch	—	—	Amazon
Sep 7, 2014	NVIDIA releases cuDNN cuDNN · 1.0	NVIDIA	SDK release	—	—	NVIDIA Developer Blog
Jun 30, 2014	Series B raises $33 million Databricks raised $33 million to expand its cloud platform for large-scale data processing.	Databricks	Funding round	$33M	—	TechCrunch
May 29, 2014	Xiaoice launched in China Xiaoice	Microsoft	Product launch	—	—	Microsoft Research
May 2014	Baidu opens Silicon Valley AI Lab Baidu Brain	Baidu	Event	—	—	Baidu
Apr 2, 2014	Cortana announced Cortana	Microsoft	Product launch	—	—	Windows Blog
Jan 26, 2014	Google acquires DeepMind Technologies AlphaGo	Google (Alphabet)	Acquisition	—	—	Reuters
Dec 9, 2013	Facebook AI Research established Facebook formed its dedicated AI research laboratory, later known as FAIR, under Yann LeCun.	Meta	Event	—	—	Meta
Sep 25, 2013	Series A raises $13.9 million Andreessen Horowitz led Databricks' first institutional financing to commercialize Apache Spark.	Databricks	Funding round	$13.9M	—	VentureBeat
Jan 2013	Baidu Institute of Deep Learning established Baidu Brain	Baidu	Event	—	—	Baidu
2013	Databricks founded Databricks was founded by seven University of California, Berkeley researchers who helped create Apache Spark.	Databricks	Event	—	—	Databricks
May 18, 2012	Facebook initial public offering Facebook completed its initial public offering on Nasdaq under the ticker FB.	Meta	IPO	—	—	Meta
2012	GPU-trained AlexNet wins ImageNet AlexNet, trained on NVIDIA GPUs, won the ImageNet competition and helped catalyze modern deep learning adoption.	NVIDIA	Research paper	—	—	NVIDIA Corporate Timeline
Feb 16, 2011	Watson DeepQA system demonstrated publicly Watson DeepQA	IBM	Model release	—	—	IBM
Feb 16, 2011	IBM Watson wins Jeopardy! IBM Watson	IBM	Benchmark result	—	—	IBM
2011	Google Brain research project begins Google forms the Google Brain research initiative to pursue large-scale deep learning and neural networks.	Google (Alphabet)	News	—	—	Google Research
Nov 2006	NVIDIA releases CUDA CUDA · 1.0	NVIDIA	SDK release	—	—	NVIDIA Developer Blog
Mar 14, 2006	Amazon Web Services launches AWS AI and Machine Learning	Amazon	Event	—	—	AWS
Nov 2, 2005	Amazon Mechanical Turk launched Amazon Mechanical Turk	Amazon	Product launch	—	—	Amazon

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