Products

The consumer chat product of Zhipu AI, launched as ChatGLM in 2023 and later renamed GLM. It is the web entry point where new Zhipu models such as GLM-5.1 reach ordinary users.

Large language modelsChinaConsumer apps

Perplexity is an AI answer engine launched on 7 December 2022. It answers questions in natural language and cites its web sources, and it later added Deep Research, finance and shopping features and agents.

Large language modelsAgents & tool useConsumer apps

An open-source AI model community launched by Alibaba's DAMO Academy with partners in 2022, hosting hundreds of ready-to-use models and promoting "Model-as-a-Service".

Open sourceChinaData & datasets

LlamaIndex is an open-source Python library for building retrieval-augmented generation applications and AI agents on top of large language models. It began in late 2022 as one engineer's small indexing utility, GPT Tree Index.

Large language modelsOpen sourceAgents & tool use

An open-source framework released in October 2022 that lets developers connect large language models to data, APIs and other tools by composing them into chains and agents.

Large language modelsOpen sourceAgents & tool use

Triton is OpenAI's open-source, Python-like language and compiler for writing GPU kernels. It lets researchers with no CUDA experience produce efficient GPU code, often close to what an expert would write.

Open sourceDeep learningHardware & compute

Tesla's most advanced driver-assistance package, sold as a $99 monthly subscription. It steers, changes lanes, follows routes and parks, while the driver stays responsible and the car is not autonomous.

Consumer appsRoboticsSafety & governance

Waymo's app-based ride-hailing service, in which the car drives itself. It was the first service to carry public passengers without a safety driver, and it is how Waymo brings autonomous driving to ordinary riders.

EnterpriseConsumer appsRobotics

The OpenAI API is OpenAI's commercial developer platform, announced on 11 June 2020 with GPT-3. Over the following years it grew into a platform for building AI agents, adding the Responses API, Agents SDK, AgentKit and other tools.

EnterpriseAgents & tool useDeveloper tools

MindSpore is Huawei's open-source AI computing framework, announced in March 2020, built to run across device, edge and cloud, co-optimized with Huawei's Ascend processors and shipped with tools for training visualization and model security.

Open sourceDeep learningDeveloper tools

Shenmai FFR is a software package that applies deep learning to CT coronary angiograms to estimate coronary flow reserve, helping clinicians judge whether a narrowing will cause myocardial ischaemia. It holds medical device approvals in China, the EU and the US.

ChinaEnterpriseDeep learning

The Hugging Face Hub is the platform where people share machine-learning models, datasets and demo apps. By September 2026 it had more than 3 million models and 18 million users.

Open sourceFoundation modelsData & datasets

A free, open catalogue that links machine learning papers to their code and maintains benchmark leaderboards tracking the state of the art; built by Atlas ML, majority-owned by Facebook from December 2019, and relaunched as paperswithcode.co by Hugging Face in 2026.

Research historyOpen sourceData & datasets

Amazon SageMaker is AWS's fully managed service for building, training and hosting machine learning models, announced in 2017. It combines hosted notebooks, distributed training and scalable inference endpoints, and each part can be used on its own.

EnterpriseDeveloper toolsCloud

ONNX is an open format for representing machine learning models, announced by Microsoft and Facebook in September 2017 so that developers can move models between frameworks instead of converting them between incompatible formats.

Open sourceDeep learningDeveloper tools

PyTorch is an open-source deep-learning framework released by Meta in 2017, now governed by the PyTorch Foundation under the Linux Foundation. It is used both for research and for training and running large models in production.

Research historyOpen sourceDeep learning

A software platform OpenAI released in December 2016 for measuring and training an AI's general intelligence across games, websites and other applications, shipping 1,000 environments built on Gym.

Open sourceAgents & tool useDeveloper tools

PaddlePaddle (飞桨) is Baidu's open-source deep learning framework, released in September 2016 out of an internal platform begun in 2013; at launch it was described as China's first open-source deep learning platform.

Open sourceDeep learningDeveloper tools

A handheld machine translation device from iFlytek, first released as Xiaoyi Translator in 2016, which the company's brand history describes as creating the AI translator product category.

ChinaEnterpriseConsumer apps

OpenAI Gym, announced as a beta in April 2016, is a toolkit for developing and comparing reinforcement learning algorithms: a growing suite of environments, from classic control tasks to Atari games and simulated robots, plus a website for comparing and reproducing results.

Research historyOpen sourceDeveloper tools

Apache MXNet is an open-source deep learning library that offers both symbolic and imperative programming, runs from mobile devices to GPU clusters, and ships bindings for eight languages. Its paper was posted in December 2015 by Tianqi Chen, Mu Li and colleagues.

Open sourceDeep learningDeveloper tools

TensorFlow is Google's second-generation machine learning system, released as an open-source library under the Apache 2.0 license on 9 November 2015, succeeding the earlier DistBelief system.

Research historyOpen sourceDeep learning

Keras is a deep learning API written in Python that runs on top of JAX, TensorFlow or PyTorch. Since 2015 it has offered a high-level way to define, train and export neural networks without tying a project to one framework.

Open sourceDeep learningDeveloper tools

Skype Translator is a Microsoft feature that automatically translates speech and instant-message conversations. A public preview opened on 15 December 2014 with Spanish and English speech translation and more than 40 messaging languages.[^1]

Consumer appsProduct historyMultimodal

Amazon Echo is an always-on, nine-inch cylindrical speaker that answers to the name Alexa. Launched in November 2014 by invitation, it put a voice assistant into an ordinary room rather than a phone.

Research historyEnterpriseConsumer apps

Caffe is a BSD-licensed C++ library with Python and MATLAB bindings for training and deploying convolutional neural networks, described in a 2014 paper by Yangqing Jia and colleagues.

Open sourceDeep learningDeveloper tools

XiaoIce was a Microsoft chatbot released in May 2014 that users added to WeChat group chats for reminders, lookups, weather and jokes. It drew large crowds, then was banned by WeChat three days later for breaking platform rules.

Large language modelsChinaConsumer apps

Google Now is an Android feature, announced with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean in June 2012, that pushes weather, traffic, scores and other information to users as cards at the moment they need it, without a search query.

Agents & tool useConsumer appsProduct history

A Google search feature announced in 2012 that models real-world entities and their relationships, so that search can work with "things, not strings".

EnterpriseProduct historyData & datasets

Microsoft's commercial edition of its Kinect depth-sensing camera, released on 1 February 2012 at a suggested price of $249 with a version 1.0 software development kit, so that companies and researchers could build motion- and voice-based applications for Windows computers.

Consumer appsHardware & computeDeveloper tools

A free online version of Stanford's artificial intelligence course, taught by Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig, which started on October 10, 2011 and drew 160,000 students from over 190 countries.

Research historyProduct historyScience

A free beta software development kit released by Microsoft on 16 June 2011 that let developers use the Kinect sensor's depth sensing, motion tracking and voice recognition on Windows PCs, initially for non-commercial work.

Research historyProduct historyDeveloper tools

Kaggle is a data science competition platform and online community founded by Anthony Goldbloom in April 2010, where most submissions are scored instantly on a live leaderboard. Google acquired it in March 2017.

Product historyData & datasetsDeveloper tools

An open-source Python library for statistical learning, begun in 2007, first released publicly on 1 February 2010 by a team at Inria, and now one of the most popular machine learning programs on GitHub.

Research historyOpen sourceData & datasets

Siri was a mobile app, on sale in Apple's App Store from February 2010, that turned spoken requests into answers using speech recognition, GPS and partner services. Apple bought the company behind it that April.

EnterpriseAgents & tool useConsumer apps

Bing is Microsoft's consumer search brand, launched on 3 June 2009 and pitched as a "Decision Engine" meant to help people make faster, better-informed decisions in areas such as shopping, travel, health and local business.

EnterpriseConsumer appsProduct history

Wolfram|Alpha is a web service that answers questions by computing results rather than returning links. Built entirely in Mathematica, it went live in test mode on 15 May 2009 and was declared officially launched three days later.

EnterpriseConsumer appsProduct history

CIFAR-10 is a labelled image dataset of 60000 32×32 colour images in 10 mutually exclusive classes, split into 50000 training and 10000 test images; it was created by Krizhevsky, Nair and Hinton for training and comparing image classifiers.

Research historyDeep learningData & datasets

Common Crawl is a nonprofit that has archived the public web since 2007 and gives its petabyte-scale datasets away for free. Its corpus became a core source of training data for large language models.

Research historyOpen sourceData & datasets

Theano is a Python library and optimizing compiler for mathematical expressions, especially matrix-valued ones, developed at the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms. Released in 2007, it combined symbolic differentiation, GPU execution and C code generation for numerically heavy research and teaching.

Research historyOpen sourceDeep learning

Apache Hadoop is an open-source framework for distributed storage and processing of big data, with the Hadoop Distributed File System for storage and MapReduce for processing; it grew out of the Nutch web-search project and was first released in 2006.

Open sourceProduct historyData & datasets

CALO was SRI's cognitive assistant project, begun in 2003 as part of a five-year, 150 million dollar DARPA program, built to learn from observation rather than fixed programming. Its work on virtual personal assistants was later leveraged to create Siri.

Research historyEnterpriseAgents & tool use

Torch is a scientific computing framework for machine learning built on the LuaJIT scripting language with a C/CUDA core, designed to put GPUs first and surrounded by a large ecosystem of community packages.

Research historyOpen sourceDeep learning

The AIBO Performer Kit (model ERF-510) is a motion editor released by Sony alongside its ERS-110 robot, letting owners write original movements for the robot on a personal computer and load them with an included Memory Stick.

Consumer appsProduct historyRobotics

NASA's Mars Pathfinder lander touched down on July 4, 1997, deployed the small Sojourner rover, used an airbag landing system for the first time, and returned thousands of images of the Martian surface.

Research historyRoboticsHardware & compute

Dragon NaturallySpeaking is speech recognition software from Dragon Systems, first released in 1997 as a continuous dictation product; it turns speech into text, runs spoken commands and reads documents aloud, and is still sold today under Microsoft.

Research historyEnterpriseConsumer apps

The Newton MessagePad was Apple's first handheld computer built on Newton technology, shipping on 2 August 1993 with a pen-based interface, handwriting recognition and a modular communications design.

Research historyConsumer appsProduct history

C4.5 is a machine learning system that builds decision trees or if-then rules from cases with known classes. J. Ross Quinlan's 1993 book documents its C/UNIX implementation, source code, and use.

Research historyOpen sourceProduct history

PC Therapist was Joseph Weintraub's conversational program; a modified version won the first annual Loebner Prize Competition in 1991, fooling five of 10 judges into thinking it was human.

Research historyConsumer appsProduct history

The UCI Letter Recognition dataset is an archive of 20,000 distorted capital-letter images, each reduced to 16 integer attributes, used to benchmark classification algorithms on a 26-class recognition task.

Research historyOpen sourceData & datasets

Dragon Dictate, released by Dragon Systems in 1990, was the first speech-recognition product sold to consumers; at $9,000 it was costly, but it started the line of products that led to continuous speech recognition.

Research historyEnterpriseConsumer apps

ALVINN was a 1988 Carnegie Mellon neural network that learned to steer the Navlab van by watching a human driver, an early demonstration of learned end-to-end driving.

Research historyDeep learningRobotics

NETtalk is an artificial neural network built by Terrence Sejnowski and Charles Rosenberg that learns to convert written English into phonemes and audible speech, showing that a network trained on examples can generalize to unseen words.

Research historyDeep learningProduct history

A two-volume MIT Press work by Rumelhart, McClelland and the PDP Research Group, published in 1986, that set out the parallel distributed processing framework — networks of simple units with hidden layers and sigmoid activation — and became a landmark of connectionism.

Research historyDeep learningScience

Cyc is a hand-built knowledge base and ontology of common-sense knowledge, begun by Douglas Lenat in 1984 to give software the basic concepts and rules about how the world works.

Research historyProduct historyData & datasets

R1, known inside Digital Equipment Corporation as XCON, was a rule-based expert system written by John P. McDermott at Carnegie Mellon University in 1978 to configure VAX computer orders automatically.

Research historyEnterpriseProduct history

SHRDLU was an early natural-language program built by Terry Winograd at MIT in 1968–1970 that conversed in English about a small blocks world, executing commands, answering questions and learning names — a landmark demo whose success fed an optimism later systems could not sustain.

Research historyProduct historySymbolic AI

ELIZA is an early program for holding a natural-language conversation with a computer, built at MIT by Joseph Weizenbaum in the mid-1960s. Its DOCTOR script imitated a psychotherapist, and the readiness of users to treat it as understanding became known as the ELIZA effect.

Research historyProduct historySafety & governance

DENDRAL was a Stanford artificial intelligence project begun in 1964 that identified unknown organic molecules from mass spectra using chemical knowledge. It is widely described as the first expert system and the ancestor of later systems such as MYCIN and PROSPECTOR.

Research historyProduct historyScience