Waymo Spun Out from Google as Standalone Self-Driving Company
Alphabet spins out Waymo as an independent company. Self-driving becomes a…
DeepStack Solves Heads-Up No-Limit Hold em — More AI Poker Wins
University of Alberta researchers release DeepStack, another poker AI that…
Google Neural Machine Translation Goes Live for 100+ Languages
Google Translate quietly rolls out Neural Machine Translation to all supported…
AI Beats Top Poker Players — Libratus at Heads-Up No-Limit Texas Holdem
CMUs Libratus poker AI beats four of the worlds best heads-up no-limit Texas…
Google Home Announced — Voice Assistants Enter Every Home
Google announces Google Home, its competitor to Amazon Echo. The assistant wars…
NVIDIA Releases the Xavier SoC Roadmap — Edge AI Hardware
NVIDIA announces the Xavier SoC roadmap at GTC. Purpose-built edge AI compute…
Uber and Volvo Launch Self-Driving Pilots in Pittsburgh
Uber announces a self-driving car pilot in Pittsburgh using Volvo XC90s. The…
Pokémon GO Launches — Augmented Reality Goes Mainstream
Niantic launches Pokémon GO. The game becomes a global phenomenon and proves…
Microsoft Acquires LinkedIn for $26.2B — Enterprise Data for AI
Microsoft acquires LinkedIn for $26.2B, accumulating the worlds largest…
Google I/O Announces Tensor Processing Unit (TPU)
Google announces the TPU, a custom ASIC designed for machine-learning…