2012-09-30
: ImageNet Breakthrough — Deep Learning Arrives — AlexNet wins the ImageNet competition by a massive margin, igniting the deep learning era.
2016-03-15
: AlphaGo Defeats World Champion Lee Sedol — Google DeepMind's AlphaGo beats Go world champion Lee Sedol 4–1, a milestone once thought a decade away.
2017-06-12
: Transformer Architecture Published — "Attention Is All You Need" — Google Brain researchers introduce the Transformer, the architecture behind virtually every modern large language model.
2020-05-28
: GPT-3 Released — 175 Billion Parameters — OpenAI's GPT-3 stuns the world with its ability to write code, essays, and poetry from a plain English description.
2021-06-29
: GitHub Copilot Launches — AI Writes Code — GitHub and OpenAI launch Copilot, an AI pair programmer that autocompletes code in real time inside VS Code.
2022-08-22
: DALL·E 2 and Stable Diffusion Explode on the Internet — Text-to-image AI goes mainstream as DALL·E 2 and open-source Stable Diffusion let anyone generate photorealistic images from text.
2022-11-30
: ChatGPT Launches — Fastest Product to 100 Million Users — OpenAI launches ChatGPT, which reaches 100 million users in just two months, making AI a household topic.
2023-01-23
: Microsoft Invests $10 Billion in OpenAI — Microsoft announces a multi-year, multi-billion dollar investment in OpenAI and begins integrating AI across its product suite.
2023-03-14
: GPT-4 Released — Multimodal and Dramatically More Capable — OpenAI releases GPT-4, capable of processing images and achieving human-level scores on bar exams and professional benchmarks.
2024-03-13
: EU AI Act Becomes Law — The European Union passes the world's first comprehensive AI regulation, the EU AI Act, establishing risk-based rules for AI systems.
2024-09-12
: OpenAI Releases o1 — AI That "Thinks" Before Answering — OpenAI launches o1, a model that uses chain-of-thought reasoning internally, setting new records on math and science benchmarks.
2024-10-09
: Google DeepMind Wins Nobel Prize for AlphaFold — Demis Hassabis and John Jumper of Google DeepMind win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold's solution to protein structure prediction.
2024-12-09
: OpenAI Releases Sora — OpenAI launches Sora to the public, making AI video generation mainstream for the first time.
2024-12-09
: OpenAI Releases Sora — OpenAI launches Sora to the public, making AI video generation mainstream for the first time.
2024-12-09
: OpenAI Releases Sora — OpenAI launches Sora to the public, making AI video generation mainstream for the first time.
2024-12-26
: DeepSeek V3 Released — Chinese AI lab DeepSeek releases V3, an open-source model that matches GPT-4o at a fraction of the training cost.
2024-12-26
: DeepSeek V3 Released — Chinese AI lab DeepSeek releases V3, an open-source model that matches GPT-4o at a fraction of the training cost.
2024-12-26
: DeepSeek V3 Released — Chinese AI lab DeepSeek releases V3, an open-source model that matches GPT-4o at a fraction of the training cost.
2025-01-20
: DeepSeek R1 Shocks the World — DeepSeek's R1 reasoning model matches OpenAI's o1 in performance while being fully open-source — triggering a stock market selloff.
2025-01-20
: DeepSeek R1 Shocks the World — DeepSeek's R1 reasoning model matches OpenAI's o1 in performance while being fully open-source — triggering a stock market selloff.
2025-01-20
: DeepSeek R1 Shocks the World — DeepSeek's R1 reasoning model matches OpenAI's o1 in performance while being fully open-source — triggering a stock market selloff.
2025-02-24
: Claude 3.7 Sonnet Launches — Anthropic releases Claude 3.7 Sonnet with a novel "extended thinking" mode, outperforming o1 on software engineering tasks.
2025-02-24
: Claude 3.7 Sonnet Launches — Anthropic releases Claude 3.7 Sonnet with a novel "extended thinking" mode, outperforming o1 on software engineering tasks.
2025-02-24
: Claude 3.7 Sonnet Launches — Anthropic releases Claude 3.7 Sonnet with a novel "extended thinking" mode, outperforming o1 on software engineering tasks.
2025-03-25
: Google Gemini 2.5 Pro Debuts — Google releases Gemini 2.5 Pro, immediately topping the LMArena leaderboard and outperforming all other models on coding and reasoning.