Apple officially launches Swift, a modern replacement for Objective-C. The language would later become a first-class target for on-device AI inference on iOS.

Google releases Kubernetes as open source. The project, forked from Google internal Borg, would become the de-facto operating system of modern cloud-native AI platforms.

Tesla announces the D line (dual-motor AWD) and the first version of Autopilot — a consumer semi-autonomous driving system using fleet-learning neural networks.