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September 2025 2
August 2025 32
2025-08-26Google launches Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, a state-of-the-art image generation and editing model dubbed 'nano-banana'model launch
2025-08-25Anthropic pilots Claude for Chrome, a browser extension that lets AI take actions inside tabsproduct
2025-08-22Coinbase CEO Armstrong says he fired engineers who refused to adopt AI coding toolscommunity
2025-08-20Google unveils the Pixel 10 line, betting the phone's headline feature is on-device Gemini, not the hardwareproduct
2025-08-19Meta reorganizes AI division for fourth time in six months, splits Superintelligence Labs into four teams and freezes hiringbusiness
2025-08-18MIT report finds 95% of enterprise generative AI pilots deliver no measurable P&L returnresearch
2025-08-14Google releases Gemma 3 270M, a 270-million-parameter open model designed for on-device fine-tuningopen weights
2025-08-13xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin departs, launches venture firm focused on AI safetybusiness
2025-08-10Nvidia and AMD agree to pay U.S. government 15% of China AI chip revenue in exchange for export licensesbusiness
2025-08-04Alibaba open-sources Qwen-Image, a 20B-parameter foundation model that handles Chinese text rendering nativelymodel launch
2025-08-01Google rolls out Gemini 2.5 Deep Think with parallel thinking to Ultra subscribersmodel launch
July 2025 32
2025-07-30Zuckerberg Publishes ‘Personal Superintelligence’ Vision, Signals Meta May Not Open Source All Advanced AI Modelsbusiness
2025-07-26China proposes World AI Cooperation Organization, unveils global governance plan at Shanghai conferencepolicy
2025-07-24Hacker injects destructive prompt into Amazon Q AI coding assistant, exposing supply chain flawsproduct
2025-07-23White House unveils sweeping AI action plan as Trump pushes data centers, exports, frontier modelspolicy
2025-07-18Meta refuses to sign EU AI Code of Practice, calling it an overreach that will stunt growthpolicy
2025-07-18Replit AI agent deletes production database during code freeze, fabricates data to cover errorsproduct
2025-07-16OpenAI and Anthropic researchers publicly rebuke xAI for launching Grok 4 without safety documentationpolicy
2025-07-10METR randomized trial finds experienced developers 19% slower when using AI coding toolsresearch
2025-07-07CoreWeave to acquire Core Scientific in $9 billion all-stock deal, absorbing crypto-mining infrastructure for AI computecompute
June 2025 11
2025-06-24Federal judge rules Anthropic's AI training on copyrighted books is fair use, but library of pirated copies must go to trialpolicy
May 2025 9
2025-05-28DeepSeek releases R1-0528 reasoning model, adds JSON output and function callingopen weights
2025-05-22Anthropic unveils Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 at its first developer conferencemodel launch
2025-05-21OpenAI acquires Jony Ive's io in $6.5B all-equity deal, names Ive and LoveFrom to lead creative and design workbusiness
2025-05-20Google I/O 2025: Veo 3 generates video with synchronized audio, AI Mode rolls out in US Searchproduct
April 2025 10
2025-04-17Google launches Gemini 2.5 Flash with controllable thinking budgets in previewmodel launch
2025-04-16OpenAI launches o3 and o4-mini reasoning models with tool use and image thinkingmodel launch
2025-04-14Cursor IDE support AI hallucinates lockout policy, sparking user backlash and cancellationsproduct
March 2025 11
2025-03-27Anthropic publishes research tracing internal reasoning of Claude, revealing planning and multilingual thoughtresearch
2025-03-25OpenAI launches GPT-4o native image generation in ChatGPT, sparking Ghibli-style frenzy and GPU strainproduct
2025-03-25Google unveils Gemini 2.5 Pro, a ‘thinking model’ that debuts at No. 1 on LMArenamodel launch
2025-03-12Google DeepMind unveils Gemini Robotics, a vision-language-action model for physical world tasksmodel launch
2025-03-12Google releases Gemma 3, claiming it's the most capable open model for a single GPU or TPUopen weights
February 2025 7
2025-02-24Anthropic launches Claude 3.7 Sonnet, a hybrid reasoning model, and Claude Code terminal toolproduct
January 2025 11
2025-01-27Nvidia loses close to $600 billion in market cap as Chinese AI lab DeepSeek sparks sell-offbusiness
2025-01-25DeepSeek-R1 shows reasoning can emerge from pure reinforcement learning, reducing reliance on human-labeled reasoning tracesresearch
2025-01-23OpenAI launches Operator research preview for Pro subscribers, a computer-using agent that browses the web to book, buy, and fill formsproduct
2025-01-21Trump, SoftBank, OpenAI and Oracle announce up to $500B Stargate AI infrastructure projectbusiness
2025-01-21Trump announces $500 billion 'Stargate' AI infrastructure project with SoftBank, OpenAI, Oraclebusiness
December 2024 13
2024-12-26DeepSeek releases V3, a 671B MoE model showing comparable benchmark performance to GPT-4o and Claude 3.5model launch
2024-12-11Google debuts Gemini 2.0 Flash, at twice the speed of 1.5 Pro, and unveils agentic research prototypesmodel launch
November 2024 7
2024-11-28Alibaba releases downloadable reasoning model QwQ-32B-Preview, challenging OpenAI's o1model launch
2024-11-25Anthropic open-sources Model Context Protocol, a universal standard for connecting AI assistants to tools and dataopen weights
2024-11-22Amazon doubles Anthropic investment with additional $4B, names AWS primary training partnerbusiness
2024-11-20DeepSeek releases R1-Lite-Preview with o1-preview-level performance and full chain-of-thought transparencymodel launch
2024-11-12Alibaba open-sources Qwen2.5-Coder-32B, says it matches GPT-4o's coding capabilitiesmodel launch
October 2024 11
2024-10-28Apple Intelligence ships with iOS 18.1, bringing AI writing tools and notification summaries to iPhonesproduct
2024-10-22Anthropic ships upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet, 3.5 Haiku, and 'computer use' public betamodel launch
2024-10-09Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to AI protein-folding pioneers Hassabis, Jumper and Bakerresearch
September 2024 14
2024-09-26OpenAI weighs for-profit restructuring as reported financials show $5B loss on $3.7B revenuebusiness
2024-09-23Altman publishes 'The Intelligence Age' manifesto, predicts superintelligence within 'a few thousand days'research
2024-09-19Alibaba releases Qwen 2.5 family with up to 72B parameters at Apsara Conferencemodel launch
2024-09-12OpenAI unveils o1 models that 'think' before answering, achieving 83% of problems on IMO qualifying exammodel launch
2024-09-11Google's NotebookLM adds Audio Overview, generating AI conversations from your documentsproduct
August 2024 10
2024-08-29California legislature passes controversial frontier AI safety bill SB 1047, sends to Governor Newsompolicy
2024-08-29OpenAI and Anthropic sign pre-release safety testing agreements with US AI Safety Institutepolicy
2024-08-28Google researchers unveil GameNGen, a diffusion model that simulates DOOM in real timeresearch
July 2024 9
2024-07-25DeepMind achieves silver-medal standard at International Mathematical Olympiad with AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2research
2024-07-24Mistral releases Large 2, claiming parity with frontier models at a fraction of the sizemodel launch
2024-07-23Meta releases Llama 3.1 405B, claims first frontier-level open source AI modelmodel launch
June 2024 15
2024-06-27Google releases Gemma 2, a next-generation open model family that competes with Llama 3 and runs on a single GPUmodel launch
2024-06-24Major record labels sue AI music services Suno and Udio for mass copyright infringementpolicy
2024-06-21Anthropic launches Claude 3.5 Sonnet, claims it beats Claude 3 Opus on reasoning, coding and vision benchmarksmodel launch
2024-06-19Blogger's anti-AI screed says the next person to mention AI gets a 'complimentary chiropractic adjustment'community
2024-06-11Forbes accuses Perplexity of plagiarizing its reporting in Perplexity Pages featurebusiness
2024-06-10Apple unveils Apple Intelligence, a generative AI system for iPhone, iPad and Mac, with ChatGPT integrationproduct
2024-06-04Current and former employees of OpenAI and Google DeepMind publish open letter demanding whistleblower protections for AI risk reportingcommunity
May 2024 18
2024-05-30Google AI Overviews tell users to eat rocks, put glue on pizza in viral screenshot stormproduct
2024-05-23University of Washington researchers build AI headphones that let wearer focus on a single speaker by looking at themresearch
2024-05-20OpenAI pulls ChatGPT voice after Scarlett Johansson says she was 'shocked, angered' by similarity to her ownproduct
2024-05-17OpenAI disbands Superalignment team after leaders exit, safety researcher says products took prioritypolicy
2024-05-14Google I/O 2024: Gemini infused into Search, Workspace, Android; Project Astra and Veo unveiledproduct
2024-05-14OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever departs six months after key role in Sam Altman's ousterbusiness
2024-05-13OpenAI unveils GPT-4o, a flagship model that handles text, speech and video in real timemodel launch
2024-05-07DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V2, a 236B MoE model with novel attention architecturemodel launch
April 2024 8
2024-04-23Microsoft unveils Phi-3-mini, a 3.8B model that runs on phones and outperforms models twice its size across key benchmarksmodel launch
2024-04-18Meta releases Llama 3, an open-weights AI model with 8B and 70B parameter versionsopen weights
2024-04-143Blue1Brown video on transformer attention mechanism hits front page of Hacker Newscommunity
March 2024 15
2024-03-19Microsoft hires Mustafa Suleyman to lead new consumer AI division, bringing over most of Inflection's staffbusiness
2024-03-18Nvidia unveils Blackwell GPU platform, promising up to 30x inference leap over H100compute
2024-03-13Figure 01 humanoid robot demonstrates natural conversation and tasks with OpenAI-powered reasoningproduct
2024-03-12Cognition unveils Devin, 'the first AI software engineer' — autonomous coding, debugging, and deployment in a sandboxed environmentproduct
2024-03-08Sam Altman returns to OpenAI board as law firm review says Altman’s conduct did not mandate removalbusiness
2024-03-06Answer.AI releases open-source system to fine-tune 70B language models on consumer GPUscommunity
February 2024 17
2024-02-26Mistral launches GPT-4-class flagship model and Le Chat assistant, inks Microsoft partnershipmodel launch
2024-02-22Google pauses Gemini image generation after inaccurate historical depictions spark backlashproduct
2024-02-22Stability AI announces Stable Diffusion 3 with scaled parameter options from 800M to 8Bmodel launch
2024-02-21Google releases Gemma 2B and 7B, open-weight LLMs, entering the race against Mistral and othersmodel launch
2024-02-15Google announces Gemini 1.5 Pro with 1 million token context window, up to 10 million in researchmodel launch
2024-02-15OpenAI unveils Sora, a text-to-video model that generates photorealistic clips up to 60 seconds longmodel launch
2024-02-15OpenAI unveils Sora, a text-to-video model generating realistic scenes from text promptsmodel launch
January 2024 7
2024-01-18Zuckerberg says Meta is building AGI, will have 350,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs by end of 2024compute
2024-01-17DeepMind unveils AlphaGeometry, an AI system that solves Olympiad geometry problems at gold-medalist levelresearch
December 2023 10
2023-12-27New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement over training datapolicy
2023-12-11Mistral AI releases Mixtral 8x7B, a sparse MoE model that matches or outperforms GPT-3.5open weights
2023-12-06Google unveils Gemini 1.0, claims state-of-the-art performance and native multimodalitymodel launch
November 2023 19
2023-11-29Altman officially returns as OpenAI CEO, new board installed with Microsoft observer seatbusiness
2023-11-21Stability AI releases Stable Video Diffusion, an open-source video generation modelmodel launch
October 2023 1
September 2023 5
August 2023 3
2023-08-06Zoom terms of service now draw backlash over broad customer-content license and AI-training concernspolicy
2023-08-02Meta open-sources AudioCraft, a generative AI framework for music and sound from textopen weights
July 2023 6
2023-07-18Meta releases Llama 2, an open-source large language model free for commercial usemodel launch
2023-07-11Anthropic unveils Claude 2 with 100k-token context window, opens chat to publicmodel launch
June 2023 2
May 2023 9
2023-05-30AI extinction risk is a global priority, AI experts and public figures warn in one-sentence statementpolicy
2023-05-20Don Knuth publishes transcript of ChatGPT experiment, highlighting AI's confident errorsresearch
2023-05-16OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tells Senate AI regulation is essential, warns technology needs safeguardspolicy
April 2023 4
2023-04-20Alphabet merges Google Brain and DeepMind into Google DeepMind under Demis Hassabisbusiness
March 2023 16
2023-03-22GitHub Copilot X launches with chat, voice, GPT-4, and preview sign-ups across five new featuresproduct
2023-03-22Elon Musk Backs Open Letter Calling for Six-Month Pause on Training AI Systems More Powerful Than GPT-4policy
2023-03-16Microsoft launches Microsoft 365 Copilot, combining GPT-4 with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teamsproduct
2023-03-14Anthropic launches Claude chatbot and API after closed alpha with Notion, Quora, DuckDuckGomodel launch
2023-03-14OpenAI launches GPT-4, a multimodal model that scores in top 10 percent of bar exammodel launch
2023-03-13Stanford releases Alpaca, an instruction-following AI model built for under $600model launch
2023-03-03LLaMA weights circulate online as torrent magnet PR lands in official repositoryopen weights
February 2023 12
2023-02-24Meta unveils LLaMA, a family of foundational language models aimed at researchersmodel launch
2023-02-14Stephen Wolfram publishes lengthy explainer on what ChatGPT is doing and why it worksresearch
2023-02-08Google AI chatbot Bard makes factual error in promotional demo, wiping $100 billion from Alphabet's market valueproduct