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Google announces Gemini 4 Argon, starting with vetted cyber defenders

Google DeepMind

Six AI leaders sign Trump's voluntary White House Accord on Super Intelligence

White House · Google · Anthropic · Meta · OpenAI · xAI · SpaceX · NVIDIA

Trump orders federal agencies to call AI "Super Intelligence"

White House

Sign in with ChatGPT lets Plus and Pro plans pay for AI in other apps

OpenAI

OpenAI begins rolling out dots, its cloud-computer agents

OpenAI

OpenAI previews the Decisions API, a GPT-6 Luna endpoint for fixed choices

OpenAI

Meta adds small business tools to Muse

Meta

OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Sol for Work, Codex and the API

OpenAI

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Space, a shared workspace for teams and agents

OpenAI

OpenAI scraps the release of GPT-6.1 Astra over alignment test results

OpenAI

ElevenLabs releases Eleven v4 and v4 Turbo speech models

ElevenLabs

Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5.5

Anthropic

The US and China set up an AI dialogue and incident channel, but no safety deal

White House

OpenAI pauses tool use on its top models after an agent escapes through DNS

OpenAI

Microsoft unveils a new Copilot app with Home, Code and an Autopilot agent

Microsoft

Google starts testing Call for Me, Gemini phone calls to businesses on Pixel 11

Google

Google releases Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar

Google

Fireworks releases Ember-1 as a research preview

Fireworks AI

Anthropic reports Claude found an enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats

Anthropic

Xiaomi open-sources MiMo-V2.6, a trillion-parameter omnimodal model, under MIT

Xiaomi

Tesla puts Grok Bot in its cars

Tesla · xAI

OpenAI releases GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna at half the price

OpenAI

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5.5

Anthropic

xAI releases Grok 4.7

xAI · SpaceX

Qwen-Image-2.1 ships open weights under a research-only license

Alibaba

An Anthropic engineer factors RSA-896 with Claude's help

Anthropic

Virginia ends state fast-tracking for big data centers and forms an AI task force

Commonwealth of Virginia

Newsom orders California to study requiring an AI kill switch

State of California

Consumers sue Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google over the AI pacing pledge

Anthropic · OpenAI · SpaceX · xAI · Google

Anthropic confirms it runs its own biology wet lab

Anthropic

OpenAI introduces Astra for Law, a GPT-6 Astra configuration for law firms

OpenAI

Anthropic says Claude now leads a quarter of its own AI research work

Anthropic

Anthropic opens a verification program for looser biology safeguards

Anthropic

OpenAI sets up a standing process for disclosing misalignment

OpenAI

Cohere signs a definitive agreement to combine with Aleph Alpha

Cohere · Aleph Alpha

Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork into one Claude

Anthropic

TypeSafe opens early access to Jev, a model for typed decisions

TypeSafe AI

Salesforce puts its Koa CRM reasoning model into pilot

Salesforce · NVIDIA

Google releases Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking

Google

Microsoft AI publishes a draft Humanist AI Code of Conduct for its models

Microsoft

Apple ships Siri AI in beta, on models built with Google's Gemini

Apple · Google

Z.ai raises about $5 billion in shares and bonds for next-generation GLM models

Zhipu AI

Dario Amodei calls on AI labs to pace the frontier

Anthropic · OpenAI

Sakana AI releases Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2, models that orchestrate other models

Sakana AI

Moonshot swaps Kimi K2.8 Preview in behind Kimi Code's kimi-for-coding model

Moonshot AI

OpenAI plans to retire custom GPTs and move them to plugins

OpenAI

OpenAI puts GPT-Live-1 in the API

OpenAI

DeepSeek releases V4.1 Flash with open weights

DeepSeek

Cursor launches Projects, a coordinator agent for long-running work

Anysphere

Cognition releases SWE-2, a coding model post-trained from Kimi K3

Cognition

OpenAI pauses new sign-ups for its $200 ChatGPT Pro plan

OpenAI

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Financial Services, built with Morgan Stanley and Evercore

OpenAI

Census Bureau economists find AI-exposed graduates fared worse after ChatGPT

United States Census Bureau

Anthropic accuses seven Chinese labs of distilling Claude

Anthropic · Alibaba · Moonshot AI · DeepSeek · Xiaomi

Cognition says Devin agents built the GPU code that factored RSA-260

Cognition

Anthropic expands its account of cyber-evaluation incidents

Anthropic · METR

OpenAI says an unreleased model solved the Navier-Stokes problem

OpenAI

Mistral raises €3 billion at a €21 billion valuation

Mistral AI

Meta launches Muse, a personal AI agent

Meta

Cognition raises over $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation

Cognition

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.5

OpenAI

Google DeepMind releases AlphaGenome Atlas, mapping every human DNA variant

Google DeepMind

OpenAI's chief scientist says no lab has solved alignment

OpenAI

Independent researchers reveal OpenAI agents ran a hidden message board on a German wiki

OpenAI

Anthropic says Claude formalized Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean

Anthropic

NVIDIA agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion

NVIDIA · Hugging Face

OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra, its first model rated Critical for cyber

OpenAI

Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash and a cyber-defense variant

Google DeepMind

World Labs previews Atlas, a world model with camera control

World Labs

Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1

Anthropic

Anthropic accounts for its own sandbox escapes

Anthropic · UK AI Security Institute

OpenClaw 2.0 rebuilds the harness around a shared workspace

OpenClaw

Z.ai publishes GLM-5.3's full weights

Zhipu AI

Sony Music and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic over pirated training data

Anthropic · Sony Music Publishing · Warner Chappell Music

OpenAI moves to cut off Cursor's model access after the SpaceX deal

OpenAI · Anysphere

More than a hundred companies sign a call for collective action on cyber defense

OpenAI · Anthropic · Google · Microsoft · Amazon · Cloudflare · Hugging Face · Oracle · Perplexity

A federal judge rules Anthropic's Pentagon blacklist unlawful

Anthropic · United States Department of War

Anthropic opens a research preview letting AI agents operate lab hardware

Anthropic

Salesforce and Anthropic launch Claudeforce

Salesforce · Anthropic

OpenAI publishes its postmortem on the Hugging Face breach

OpenAI · Hugging Face

Z.ai releases GLM-5.3-Flash, the GLM-5 series' first natively multimodal model

Zhipu AI

AWS commits to 2 million more Nvidia GPUs for 2027 and 2028

Amazon · NVIDIA

Anthropic commits $45 billion to a Nscale campus in West Virginia

Anthropic · Nscale

Perplexity ships a fully local agent on the DGX Spark

Perplexity · NVIDIA

OpenAI publishes first benchmarks for its Jalapeño inference chip

OpenAI · Broadcom

Claude's memory becomes shared across chat and Cowork, on by default

Anthropic

Amazon closes Mechanical Turk after 21 years

Amazon

XPeng Robotics raises over $900 million for its IRON humanoid robot

XPeng

Taiwan indicts NVIDIA and Supermicro staff over Blackwell servers sent to China

NVIDIA · Super Micro Computer

Alibaba launches Wan3.0, a video model that reads slide decks

Alibaba

Alibaba prices a $10 billion Hong Kong share sale entirely for AI

Alibaba

NVIDIA licenses Poolside's model factory for $6 billion

NVIDIA · Poolside

Apple Music makes AI-content tagging mandatory

Apple

Unitree lists in Shanghai, the first mainland IPO of a humanoid robot maker

Unitree

Stripe buys OpenRouter for more than $7 billion

Stripe · OpenRouter

Merck and Moderna's individualized cancer therapy succeeds in phase 3

Merck · Moderna

OpenAI pauses its largest frontier training run over cyber capabilities

OpenAI

Marvell gives Google a warrant worth $12.2 billion in a custom chip deal

Google · Marvell

Claude designs working protein binders for 14 of 15 lab targets

Anthropic

ChatGPT for Teens rolls out with age gating and parental controls

OpenAI

Nvidia backs a $105 billion Ohio data center built for OpenAI

NVIDIA · SB Energy · OpenAI

SpaceX closes the Cursor deal and forms SpaceXAI

SpaceX · Anysphere

Qwen 3.8 27B lands under Apache 2

Alibaba

GLM-5.3 takes its gains from post-training alone

Zhipu AI

IBM puts OpenAI models inside its consulting business

IBM · OpenAI

Gemini 3.7 Flash lands three weeks after 3.6

Google

DeepSeek announces peak-hour API price increases

DeepSeek

Alibaba publishes 2.4 trillion parameters

Alibaba

xAI releases Grok 4.6

xAI · SpaceX

xAI launches Grok Bot, agents that work from their own cloud computer

xAI · SpaceX

Gemma passes a billion downloads

Google DeepMind

The Gemini app passes a billion monthly users

Google

Claude starts watermarking everything it writes

Anthropic

ChatGPT ads expand to five more markets

OpenAI

Nvidia turns compute into an asset class

NVIDIA · Apollo · BlackRock · Blackstone · Brookfield · Goldman Sachs · KKR

Meta publishes weights again with Muse Glimmer

Meta

OpenAI ships an offensive security model behind a gate

OpenAI

Claude Code stops asking permission by default

Anthropic

AMD buys a company that etches models into silicon

AMD · Taalas

Meta ships a terminal coding agent

Meta

Hassabis moves to chair and Jeff Dean leaves Google

Google DeepMind · Google

The EU starts enforcing the AI Act's disclosure rules

European Commission

An unreleased OpenAI model produces ten advances in mathematics

OpenAI

OpenAI says its models reach a billion active users

OpenAI

DeepSeek ships V4-Flash-0731 after retraining its post-training pipeline

DeepSeek

OpenAI cuts Luna's price by 80 percent

OpenAI

Google DeepMind ships Gemini Robotics 2 for whole-body robot control

Google DeepMind

Anthropic discloses three cybersecurity-evaluation incidents

Anthropic · Irregular

Lab employees ask Washington for a brake they can pull later

OpenAI · Anthropic · Google DeepMind · Meta

Claude finds a new attack that halves a post-quantum signature scheme's strength

Anthropic

NVIDIA backs Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence with a compute deal

Safe Superintelligence · NVIDIA

Moonshot publishes Kimi K3's weights

Moonshot AI

Anthropic explains why it does not publish weights

Anthropic

Nvidia, Microsoft and Meta lead a coalition letter against restricting open weights

NVIDIA · Microsoft · Meta

Claude Opus 5 arrives with a million tokens of context

Anthropic

A model evaluation turns into a security incident

OpenAI · Hugging Face

Gemini 3.6 Flash arrives with a cyber variant for governments

Google

Claude-assisted work refutes the Jacobian conjecture in three dimensions

Anthropic

Thinking Machines finally ships something

Thinking Machines Lab

New York becomes the first state to halt new hyperscale data centers

State of New York

US clears the UAE for license-free AI chip exports

United States Department of Commerce

Apple sues OpenAI over departed employees

Apple · OpenAI

Meta starts selling access to a model it will not publish

Meta

GPT-5.6 reaches the public

OpenAI

Fidji Simo leaves OpenAI's full-time leadership team

OpenAI

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Work, an agent for multi-hour office tasks

OpenAI

xAI releases Grok 4.5

xAI · SpaceX

OpenAI ships GPT-Live, a full-duplex voice model for ChatGPT

OpenAI

Cognition releases SWE-1.7, its most capable coding model

Cognition

Illinois enacts the country's strictest state AI safety law

State of Illinois

Commerce clears Fable 5 and Anthropic switches it back on

Anthropic · United States Department of Commerce

Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5

Anthropic

Anthropic launches Claude Science, a workbench for researchers

Anthropic

Google limits Meta's access to its Gemini models

Google · Meta

Frontier access starts requiring a background check

OpenAI · Anthropic

An entire Herculaneum scroll is read for the first time in 2,000 years

Vesuvius Challenge

OpenAI unveils Jalapeño, its first chip, built with Broadcom

OpenAI · Broadcom

Anthropic accuses Alibaba of its largest distillation attack yet

Anthropic · Alibaba

Anthropic puts Claude in Slack as a shared teammate, not a chatbot

Anthropic

Nobel laureate John Jumper leaves Google DeepMind for Anthropic

Google DeepMind · Anthropic

SpaceX buys Cursor for $60 billion

SpaceX · Anysphere

GLM-5.2 takes the open-weights lead

Zhipu AI

SpaceX goes public in the largest IPO ever

SpaceX

Moonshot ships Kimi K2.7 Code, a trillion-parameter open coding model

Moonshot AI

The United States puts export controls on frontier models

Anthropic · OpenAI · United States Department of Commerce

Prometheus closes a $12 billion Series B

Prometheus

Anthropic ships Mythos 5 and a safer twin

Anthropic

OpenAI confidentially files for an IPO

OpenAI

Apple introduces Siri AI, a Siri rebuilt around personal context

Apple

Nvidia and SK hynix sign a multiyear deal on next-generation AI memory

NVIDIA · SK hynix

Gemma 4 drops the vision encoder

Google DeepMind

Qwen3.7-Plus adds vision to Alibaba's agent model, drops open weights

Alibaba

Microsoft previews Frontier Tuning for enterprise AI agents

Microsoft

The White House orders a voluntary framework for frontier-model cyber review

White House

Claude Opus 4.8

Anthropic

Anthropic raises $65 billion at $965 billion

Anthropic

Cognition raises $1 billion at $26 billion

Cognition

OpenRouter raises $113 million as routing becomes infrastructure

OpenRouter

Pope Leo XIV makes AI the subject of his first encyclical

Holy See

DeepSeek makes its 75 percent discount permanent

DeepSeek

An OpenAI model disproves an eighty-year-old conjecture

OpenAI

OpenAI offers every YC startup $2 million in tokens for equity

OpenAI · Y Combinator

OpenAI starts selling compute the way clouds sell it

OpenAI

Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic

Anthropic

Gemini Spark runs on Google's machines, not yours

Google DeepMind

Gemini Omni generates video and calls it a world model

Google DeepMind

Gemini 3.5 leads with the small model

Google DeepMind

Musk loses his case against OpenAI

OpenAI · xAI

Composer 2.5 matches the frontier at a tenth the price

Anysphere

Cloudflare points Mythos at its own code

Cloudflare · Anthropic

Codex arrives in the ChatGPT mobile app

OpenAI

Cerebras goes public and doubles on day one

Cerebras

Anthropic ships Claude for Legal

Anthropic · Harvey

Thinking Machines builds a model that listens while it talks

Thinking Machines Lab

OpenAI starts a consulting firm

OpenAI

Claude agents get to dream

Anthropic

Anthropic rents Colossus 1, the cluster built to train Grok

Anthropic · SpaceX · xAI

Google, Microsoft and xAI hand models to the government before release

Center for AI Standards and Innovation · Google DeepMind · Microsoft · xAI

Anthropic and investors form an AI services company

Anthropic · Blackstone · Hellman & Friedman · Goldman Sachs

OpenAI explains the goblins

OpenAI

OpenAI's models reach AWS as Microsoft exclusivity ends

OpenAI · Microsoft · Amazon

GitHub Copilot moves to usage-based billing

GitHub · Microsoft

China orders Meta to unwind its purchase of Manus

Meta · Manus · National Development and Reform Commission

DeepSeek releases V4 preview with MIT-licensed open weights

DeepSeek

Cohere and Aleph Alpha plan to combine, with about $600 million from Schwarz Group

Cohere · Aleph Alpha

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5

OpenAI

SpaceX buys the right to buy Cursor

SpaceX · Anysphere

GPT Image 2 reasons before it draws

OpenAI

Tim Cook hands Apple to John Ternus

Apple

Trump invokes the Defense Production Act to expand U.S. grid-equipment production

White House · United States Department of Energy

Amazon adds $25 billion to its Anthropic position

Amazon · Anthropic

Claude Design turns prompts into decks and prototypes

Anthropic

Claude Opus 4.7 ships, second to a model nobody can buy

Anthropic

Two attacks on Sam Altman's home in three days

OpenAI

Meta returns to the frontier with Muse Spark

Meta

Anthropic starts running other people's agents

Anthropic

Anthropic loses its bid to pause the Pentagon blacklist

Anthropic · United States Department of War

Anthropic builds a model it will not sell

Anthropic

GLM-5.1 puts a downloadable model on top of SWE-Bench Pro

Zhipu AI

Anthropic expands its Google and Broadcom TPU deal

Anthropic · Google · Broadcom

Cursor 3 turns the editor into an agent runtime

Anysphere

OpenAI closes a $122 billion round

OpenAI

Anthropic publishes Claude Code's source by mistake

Anthropic

SAM 3.1 tracks sixteen things at once

Meta

Google releases Gemini 3.1 Flash Live

Google

A misconfigured cache reveals Claude Mythos

Anthropic

ARC Prize launches ARC-AGI-3

ARC Prize

OpenAI says it will shut down Sora

OpenAI

Claude gets computer use and a phone remote

Anthropic

OpenAI acquires Astral, the maker of uv and Ruff

OpenAI · Astral

Cursor ships Composer 2

Anysphere

NVIDIA launches the Vera Rubin platform

NVIDIA

Replit raises $400 million at $9 billion and ships Agent 4

Replit

Google closes the $32 billion Wiz acquisition

Google · Wiz

China moves to curb OpenClaw at banks and state agencies

OpenClaw

NVIDIA commits a gigawatt of Vera Rubin to Thinking Machines Lab

NVIDIA · Thinking Machines Lab

OpenAI acquires Promptfoo

OpenAI · Promptfoo

Microsoft ships Copilot Cowork and puts Claude in mainline Copilot

Microsoft · Anthropic

Anthropic sues the Pentagon over the supply chain risk label

Anthropic · United States Department of War

A judge blocks Perplexity's shopping agent from Amazon

Amazon · Perplexity

The Pentagon designates Anthropic a supply chain risk

Anthropic · United States Department of War

OpenAI releases GPT-5.4

OpenAI

OpenAI signs with the Department of War

OpenAI · United States Department of War

The administration moves to bar Anthropic from federal work

Anthropic · United States Department of War

Google releases Nano Banana 2

Google

Block cuts 40 percent of its staff and says AI is the reason

Block

Amodei refuses the Department of War's terms

Anthropic · United States Department of War

Anthropic rewrites its Responsible Scaling Policy

Anthropic

Hollywood sends its first cease-and-desist to an AI company

Motion Picture Association · ByteDance

ggml.ai joins Hugging Face

Hugging Face · ggml.ai

Google releases Gemini 3.1 Pro

Google

Claude Sonnet 4.6

Anthropic

OpenClaw's creator joins OpenAI

OpenClaw · OpenAI

GPT-5.2 helps derive a new result in theoretical physics

OpenAI

Google updates Gemini 3 Deep Think for science and engineering

Google DeepMind

Anthropic raises $30 billion at $380 billion

Anthropic

Z.ai releases the open-weight GLM-5

Zhipu AI

OpenAI starts testing ads in ChatGPT

OpenAI

Waymo builds a world model to drive in

Waymo

OpenAI launches Frontier

OpenAI

GPT-5.3-Codex ships the same day as Claude Opus 4.6

OpenAI

Claude Opus 4.6 adds a million-token beta and adaptive reasoning

Anthropic

SpaceX acquires xAI

SpaceX · xAI

METR revises its time-horizon measurements

METR

Anthropic measures what AI help costs a learner

Anthropic

Tesla commits $2 billion to Elon Musk's xAI

Tesla · xAI

A social network opens that humans may read but not post to

Moltbook · OpenClaw

Moonshot ships Kimi K2.5 with a swarm mode

Moonshot AI

A trademark complaint renames Clawdbot overnight

Anthropic · OpenClaw

NVIDIA puts another $2 billion into CoreWeave

NVIDIA · CoreWeave

Microsoft unveils its second-generation Maia AI chip

Microsoft

Anthropic publishes Claude's constitution

Anthropic

Fabricated citations turn up in NeurIPS papers

GPTZero

xAI says Colossus 2 becomes the first gigawatt AI training cluster

xAI

ClickHouse buys Langfuse

ClickHouse · Langfuse

Thinking Machines Lab loses two co-founders back to OpenAI

Thinking Machines Lab · OpenAI

OpenAI signs a multi-year inference deal with Cerebras

OpenAI · Cerebras

Claude Cowork is made to hand over your files

Anthropic · PromptArmor

Commerce Department opens a licensing path for H200 sales to China

NVIDIA · AMD · United States Department of Commerce

Anthropic puts $1.5 million into the Python Software Foundation

Anthropic · Python Software Foundation

Claude Cowork takes the agent out of the terminal

Anthropic

Apple bases its next foundation models on Gemini

Apple · Google

Zhipu AI lists on the Hong Kong exchange

Zhipu AI

OpenAI opens a health wing inside ChatGPT

OpenAI

An Erdős problem falls to a machine

OpenAI · Harmonic

NVIDIA puts the six-chip Rubin platform into full production

NVIDIA

AWS raises GPU rental prices by 15 percent

Amazon

Meta buys Manus for more than $2 billion

Meta · Manus

Nvidia buys everything about Groq except Groq

NVIDIA · Groq

Flock's AI surveillance cameras were livestreaming to the open internet

Flock Safety

Gemini 3 Flash pushes the frontier down the price curve

Google DeepMind

ChatGPT opens an app store to outside developers

OpenAI

OpenAI ships GPT Image 1.5, four times faster than its predecessor

OpenAI

Privacy extensions were selling their users' AI conversations

Koi Security

The federal government stands up a Tech Force to hire AI talent

White House

Time names the architects of AI

TIME

GPT-5.2 answers Gemini 3 in three weeks

OpenAI

Disney licenses its characters into Sora

The Walt Disney Company · OpenAI

An executive order takes aim at state AI laws

White House

Mistral ships Devstral 2 and a local-first coding CLI

Mistral AI

OpenAI, Anthropic and Block put their agent standards under one roof

Linux Foundation · Anthropic · OpenAI · Block

Trump clears Nvidia to sell H200 chips into China

NVIDIA · White House

IBM agrees to buy Confluent for $11 billion

IBM · Confluent

Google gives a model a memory that grows

Google

Anthropic builds an AI that interviews workers about AI

Anthropic

Mistral ships its third family under Apache 2.0

Mistral AI

Anthropic buys Bun

Anthropic · Bun

Amazon launches its Nova 2 model family at re:Invent

Amazon

Runway ships Gen-4.5, its sharpest video model yet

Runway

OpenAI calls a code red over Gemini

OpenAI · Google

DeepSeek puts gold-medal reasoning in MIT-licensed weights

DeepSeek

DeepSeek's math model scores 118 of 120 on the Putnam

DeepSeek

Zig leaves GitHub over what AI did to it

Zig Software Foundation · GitHub

Warner Music settles its Suno lawsuit and signs a licensing deal

Warner Music Group · Suno

The repository that becomes OpenClaw appears

OpenClaw

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.5 at a lower API price

Anthropic

Google puts Gemini 3 Pro behind an image model

Google

Workday agrees to acquire the AI agent platform Pipedream

Workday · Pipedream

Segment Anything learns to take a description

Meta

Yann LeCun leaves Meta to bet against language models

Meta

Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI's board over Epstein emails

OpenAI

OpenAI ships GPT-5.1-Codex-Max for long coding sessions

OpenAI

Microsoft and Nvidia put up to $15 billion into Anthropic

Microsoft · NVIDIA · Anthropic

Google launches Antigravity, an agent-first coding platform

Google

Gemini 3 ships into Search on day one

Google DeepMind

xAI ships Grok 4.1, tuned for warmth over benchmarks

xAI

Cursor raises $2.3 billion at a $29.3 billion valuation

Anysphere

Anthropic reports the first AI-run espionage campaign

Anthropic

OpenAI ships GPT-5.1 with a warmer default

OpenAI

Anthropic commits $50 billion to US data centers

Anthropic · Fluidstack

SoftBank sells all of its Nvidia to pay for OpenAI

SoftBank · NVIDIA · OpenAI

Kimi K2 Thinking tops the open-weight field

Moonshot AI

Google unveils Ironwood, its seventh-generation TPU

Google

OpenAI turns to AWS for $38 billion in compute

OpenAI · Amazon

Michael Burry discloses billion-dollar bets against Nvidia and Palantir

NVIDIA · Palantir

Moonshot AI publishes the Kimi Linear attention architecture

Moonshot AI

Universal Music settles its Udio lawsuit and signs a licensing deal

Universal Music Group · Udio

AWS activates Project Rainier, a 500,000-chip AI supercomputer

Amazon · Anthropic

Nvidia becomes the first $5 trillion company

NVIDIA

Cursor 2.0 ships Composer, a coding model built for speed

Anysphere

Character.AI bars open ended chat for users under 18

Character.AI

OpenAI's for-profit becomes a public benefit corporation

OpenAI · Microsoft

Nvidia invests $1 billion in Nokia for AI-RAN hardware

NVIDIA · Nokia

Mercor raises $350 million to supply human data for AI labs

Mercor

xAI launches Grokipedia, an AI generated Wikipedia rival

xAI

Anthropic ships Claude for Excel

Anthropic

Crusoe raises $1.375 billion to build AI data centers

Crusoe

OpenAI acquires Sky, a natural language interface for Mac

OpenAI · Software Applications

Meta cuts 600 jobs from its AI Superintelligence Labs

Meta

AI assistants get the news wrong 45 percent of the time

European Broadcasting Union

OpenAI ships a browser built around ChatGPT

OpenAI

DeepSeek compresses text into pictures of text

DeepSeek

Anthropic ships Claude Code on the web

Anthropic

DoorDash and Waymo begin testing autonomous deliveries in Phoenix

DoorDash · Waymo

Anthropic ships Skills

Anthropic

Claude Haiku 4.5 puts five-month-old frontier coding at a third of the price

Anthropic

Apple ships the M5 chip

Apple

OpenAI and Broadcom agree to co-develop 10 gigawatts of AI chips

OpenAI · Broadcom

Karpathy ships nanochat, a ChatGPT clone trainable for about $100

Eureka Labs

Reflection AI raises $2 billion to build an open frontier lab

Reflection AI

A few hundred documents can poison a model of any size

Anthropic · UK AI Security Institute

Qualcomm agrees to acquire Arduino

Qualcomm · Arduino

A Dutch court suspends Nexperia's CEO and freezes Wingtech's control

Nexperia

Google ships a model that drives a browser

Google

OpenAI opens ChatGPT to third-party apps at DevDay

OpenAI

OpenAI ships AgentKit, a toolkit for building AI agents

OpenAI

Deloitte refunds a government for a report the model made up

Deloitte

AMD gives OpenAI equity for buying AMD chips

AMD · OpenAI

OpenAI's secondary share sale values it at $500 billion

OpenAI

Samsung and SK hynix join OpenAI's Stargate project

OpenAI · Samsung Electronics · SK hynix

OpenAI launches Sora 2 with a social app

OpenAI

Periodic Labs raises a $300 million seed round

Periodic Labs

Cerebras raises $1.1 billion at an $8.1 billion valuation

Cerebras

DeepSeek ships V3.2-Exp with sparse attention, halving API costs

DeepSeek

Claude Sonnet 4.5 is measured in hours, not tokens

Anthropic

California enacts the first frontier AI safety law

State of California

Suno launches Studio, a generative audio workstation

Suno

Meta launches Vibes, a feed of AI-generated video

Meta

Google DeepMind ships Gemini Robotics 1.5

Google DeepMind

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pulse, a proactive daily briefing

OpenAI

Microsoft adds Anthropic's Claude models to Copilot

Microsoft · Anthropic

OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank add five Stargate data center sites

OpenAI · Oracle · SoftBank

Nvidia commits up to $100 billion to OpenAI

NVIDIA · OpenAI

Nvidia puts $5 billion into Intel

NVIDIA · Intel

China bars its tech companies from buying Nvidia AI chips

NVIDIA

Figure raises over $1 billion at a $39 billion valuation

Figure

OpenAI ships GPT-5-Codex for its Codex coding agent

OpenAI

OpenAI and Microsoft agree on terms for a for-profit restructuring

OpenAI · Microsoft

FTC opens inquiry into AI companion chatbots and children

Federal Trade Commission · Google · Character.AI · Meta · OpenAI · xAI

ASML leads Mistral's €1.7 billion round

Mistral AI · ASML

A photonic chip does convolutions with lenses

University of Florida

Cognition raises $400 million at a $10.2 billion valuation

Cognition

Anthropic settles with authors for $1.5 billion

Anthropic

OpenAI buys Statsig for $1.1 billion

OpenAI · Statsig

Anthropic raises $13 billion at a $183 billion valuation

Anthropic

xAI ships Grok Code Fast 1, a cheap model built for coding agents

xAI

Colorado delays its AI Act by four months

State of Colorado

Anthropic starts asking consumer users to opt into training

Anthropic

Malware tries to weaponize Claude Code in an npm supply chain attack

Anthropic

Nano Banana makes image editing a conversation

Google

Anthropic puts Claude in a Chrome extension for 1,000 testers

Anthropic

xAI sues Apple and OpenAI over App Store rankings

xAI · Apple · OpenAI

Nvidia's Jetson Thor robotics computer goes on sale

NVIDIA

Waymo gets permission to test robotaxis in New York City

Waymo

The US government takes a 10% stake in Intel

Intel · United States Department of Commerce

DeepSeek ships V3.1, a hybrid reasoning model built for agents

DeepSeek

Google puts an on-device Gemini Nano into every Pixel 10

Google

Meta freezes hiring across its AI division after a poaching spree

Meta

Beijing holds the first humanoid robot games

Beijing Municipal Government

Claude Sonnet 4 gets a million tokens of context

Anthropic

Perplexity offers $34.5 billion for Chrome, a browser Google won't sell

Perplexity · Google

Nvidia and AMD agree to give the US 15% of China chip revenue

NVIDIA · AMD · United States Department of Commerce

GPT-5 hides the model picker, briefly

OpenAI

The US government buys ChatGPT Enterprise for a dollar

OpenAI

OpenAI releases gpt-oss, its first open weights since GPT-2

OpenAI

Google DeepMind's Genie 3 generates worlds you can walk through

Google DeepMind

Anthropic ships Claude Opus 4.1, an incremental upgrade to Opus 4

Anthropic

Grok Imagine ships with a spicy mode

xAI

The EU AI Act starts binding model providers

European Commission

ChatGPT adds a Study Mode that withholds answers until you engage

OpenAI

Tesla signs a $16.5 billion deal with Samsung to fab its AI6 chip

Tesla · Samsung Electronics

Zhipu releases GLM-4.5, a 355 billion parameter open model built for agents

Zhipu AI

Trump unveils the AI Action Plan and three AI executive orders

White House

Alibaba ships Qwen3-Coder, a 480 billion parameter agentic coding model

Alibaba

OpenAI confirms it will pay Oracle $30 billion a year for data centers

OpenAI · Oracle

Gemini Deep Think takes gold at the math olympiad

Google DeepMind · OpenAI

Replit's AI agent deletes a startup's production database, then lies about it

Replit

Mistral adds deep research, voice and projects to Le Chat

Mistral AI

OpenAI merges Operator and Deep Research into ChatGPT Agent

OpenAI

Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab raises $2 billion seed

Thinking Machines Lab

The Pentagon puts up to $200 million behind frontier AI labs

Anthropic · United States Department of War

Nvidia says it will resume H20 chip sales to China

NVIDIA

AWS launches Kiro, an IDE that plans before it codes

Amazon

Cognition acquires what's left of Windsurf

Cognition · Windsurf

Google hires Windsurf's CEO after OpenAI's acquisition collapses

Windsurf · Google DeepMind · OpenAI

Kimi K2 is the first open trillion-parameter model

Moonshot AI

METR finds AI tools slow experienced developers down by 19 percent

METR

Perplexity puts an assistant inside the browser

Perplexity

Nvidia touches $4 trillion first

NVIDIA

Grok 4 arrives with a heavier tier

xAI

Grok floods X with antisemitic posts and calls itself MechaHitler

xAI

Cloudflare blocks AI crawlers by default and sells access instead

Cloudflare

Zuckerberg creates Meta Superintelligence Labs, led by Alexandr Wang

Meta

Google releases Gemma 3n, an open model built to run on phones

Google

A judge rules Meta's AI training on shadow libraries was fair use

Meta

Google ships Gemini CLI, an open source terminal AI agent

Google

DeepMind releases AlphaGenome to help decode the genome's dark matter

Google DeepMind

A judge rules training Claude on books was fair use, piracy was not

Anthropic

Texas signs the Responsible AI Governance Act into law

State of Texas

Anthropic finds models from every major lab will blackmail to avoid shutdown

Anthropic

Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash reach general availability

Google

Amazon's Jassy tells staff AI will shrink the corporate workforce

Amazon

Meta buys half of Scale AI and a chief AI officer

Meta · Scale AI

Meta releases V-JEPA 2, a world model trained on video

Meta

Disney and Universal sue Midjourney for copyright infringement

The Walt Disney Company · Universal Pictures · Midjourney

OpenAI ships o3-pro, a slower and more thorough reasoning model

OpenAI

Mistral ships Magistral, its first reasoning model

Mistral AI

Sam Altman says humanity is past the event horizon

OpenAI

Apple opens its on-device AI model to developers at WWDC

Apple

Apple's "Illusion of Thinking" paper says reasoning models give up early

Apple

Cursor-maker Anysphere raises $900 million at a $9.9 billion valuation

Anysphere

Anthropic ships Claude Gov models for national security customers

Anthropic

Mistral launches Mistral Code, an enterprise AI coding assistant

Mistral AI

Yoshua Bengio launches LawZero to build safety-first AI

LawZero

White House health report cites AI-hallucinated studies

White House

xAI agrees to pay Telegram $300 million to integrate Grok

xAI · Telegram

DeepSeek ships R1-0528, a stronger update to its reasoning model

DeepSeek

Dario Amodei warns AI could wipe out half of entry-level office jobs

Anthropic

Anthropic launches a voice mode for Claude

Anthropic

OpenAI announces Stargate UAE, a 1-gigawatt Abu Dhabi data center

OpenAI · G42

A researcher uses OpenAI's o3 to find a real Linux kernel zero-day

OpenAI

Claude 4 is sold on how long it can run

Anthropic

OpenAI buys Jony Ive's hardware startup for $6.5 billion

OpenAI · io

Mistral releases Devstral, an open source coding model

Mistral AI

Judge rules Character.AI chatbots aren't protected by free speech

Character.AI · Google

Veo 3 generates the soundtrack with the video

Google

Google's Jules coding agent enters public beta

Google

Google introduces the $250-a-month AI Ultra subscription

Google

Google previews Gemini Diffusion, a text diffusion model

Google DeepMind

AI Mode arrives in Search for everyone in the US

Google

Microsoft brings native Model Context Protocol support to Windows 11

Microsoft · GitHub · Anthropic

Microsoft launches Discovery, an agentic AI platform for R&D

Microsoft

GitHub Copilot's autonomous coding agent enters public preview

GitHub

OpenAI launches Codex, a cloud-based software engineering agent

OpenAI

Windsurf ships SWE-1, its first family of in-house coding models

Windsurf

Grok inserts unsolicited 'white genocide' claims into unrelated replies

xAI

AlphaEvolve improves on Strassen after 56 years

Google DeepMind

Trump administration rescinds Biden's AI chip export diffusion rule

United States Department of Commerce

Saudi Arabia's Humain signs AI infrastructure deals with Amazon, Nvidia and AMD

Amazon · NVIDIA · AMD · Humain

OpenAI abandons for-profit conversion, nonprofit keeps control

OpenAI

OpenAI agrees to buy coding startup Windsurf for $3 billion

OpenAI · Windsurf

Qwen3 ships eight open models with a thinking switch

Alibaba

Meta launches a standalone Meta AI app built on Llama 4

Meta

Meta holds its first LlamaCon developer conference

Meta

IBM releases Bamba v2, a hybrid transformer-Mamba model

IBM

OpenAI reverts a GPT-4o update after a sycophancy backlash

OpenAI

Duolingo says it will become an AI-first company

Duolingo

OpenAI brings native image generation to the API

OpenAI

Google ships Gemini 2.5 Flash with adjustable thinking budgets

Google DeepMind

OpenAI ships Codex CLI, an open-source coding agent for the terminal

OpenAI

o3 and o4-mini use tools inside the reasoning

OpenAI

Nvidia takes a $5.5 billion charge as US restricts H20 exports to China

NVIDIA

Cohere launches Embed 4 for multimodal enterprise search

Cohere

OpenAI launches GPT-4.1 in the API

OpenAI

Google releases DolphinGemma to help decode dolphin communication

Google DeepMind

Microsoft releases BitNet b1.58 2B4T, a native 1-bit LLM

Microsoft Research

Safe Superintelligence reportedly raises $2B at a $32B valuation

Safe Superintelligence

Google unveils Ironwood, its seventh-generation TPU

Google

Google brings Gemini models on-premises via Google Distributed Cloud

Google · NVIDIA

Google introduces the Agent2Agent protocol for AI agents

Google

Meta accused of gaming the LM Arena leaderboard with Llama 4

Meta

Meta releases Llama 4 Scout and Maverick

Meta

Google announces Sec-Gemini v1, an experimental cybersecurity model

Google

Anthropic launches Claude for Education

Anthropic

Runway launches Gen-4 for consistent AI video generation

Runway

OpenAI closes a $40 billion round at a $300 billion valuation

OpenAI · SoftBank

xAI buys X in an all-stock deal

xAI · X

CoreWeave goes public in the largest AI-related IPO to date

CoreWeave

Anthropic traces how Claude 'thinks' with a new interpretability method

Anthropic

GPT-4o gets native image generation and sets off a Studio Ghibli trend

OpenAI

Gemini 2.5 Pro puts Google back in the argument

Google DeepMind

Alibaba releases Qwen2.5-VL-32B, a smaller vision-language model

Alibaba

DeepSeek updates V3 and releases it under the MIT license

DeepSeek

SoftBank agrees to buy chip designer Ampere Computing for $6.5 billion

SoftBank · Ampere Computing

Claude gains the ability to search the web

Anthropic

Apple puts its Vision Pro lead in charge of a stalled Siri

Apple

Nvidia previews Vera Rubin GPUs and ships DGX Spark at GTC 2025

NVIDIA

Nvidia releases Isaac GR00T N1, an open humanoid robot foundation model

NVIDIA

Google agrees to buy Wiz for $32 billion

Google · Wiz

Baidu launches Ernie 4.5 and the reasoning-focused Ernie X1

Baidu

Amazon forces all Alexa voice processing to the cloud for Alexa+

Amazon

Gemma 3 fits a capable open model on one GPU

Google

Gemini Robotics brings a vision-language-action model to real robots

Google DeepMind

Gemini 2.0 Flash gets experimental native image generation

Google

Mistral ships an OCR API that turns PDFs into AI-ready Markdown

Mistral AI

GPT-4.5 expands from ChatGPT Pro to Plus subscribers

OpenAI

Anthropic raises $3.5 billion Series E at a $61.5 billion valuation

Anthropic

Manus, a Chinese AI agent, goes viral in an invite-only preview

Manus

OpenAI unveils GPT-4.5, its largest model, at a steep price

OpenAI

Microsoft ships Phi-4-multimodal and Phi-4-mini for edge devices

Microsoft

Nvidia posts record data center revenue in Blackwell's first full quarter

NVIDIA

Inception Labs launches Mercury, a diffusion-based language model

Inception Labs

Amazon relaunches Alexa as a generative AI subscription assistant

Amazon

MongoDB acquires the AI retrieval startup Voyage AI

MongoDB · Voyage AI

DeepSeek open sources the infrastructure behind V3 and R1

DeepSeek

Claude Code puts an agent in the terminal

Anthropic

Anthropic releases Claude 3.7 Sonnet with extended thinking

Anthropic

Apple commits $500 billion to US manufacturing, including AI servers

Apple

Alibaba commits $53 billion to AI and cloud infrastructure

Alibaba

Figure's Helix model gives its humanoid robot fast, full-body control

Figure

Google gives the scientific method a multi-agent system

Google

Mistral ships Saba, a regional model for Arabic and South Asian languages

Mistral AI

xAI launches Grok 3, trained on ten times the compute of Grok 2

xAI

South Korea pulls DeepSeek from its app stores over data privacy

DeepSeek

The UK renames its AI Safety Institute the AI Security Institute

UK AI Security Institute

A federal judge rules AI training on Westlaw headnotes was not fair use

Thomson Reuters · ROSS Intelligence

US and UK refuse to sign the Paris AI Action Summit declaration

White House

Musk-led group offers $97.4 billion for OpenAI's nonprofit

OpenAI · xAI

France pledges 109 billion euros in AI investment at the Paris summit

France

Mistral relaunches Le Chat with search, image generation and OCR

Mistral AI

Google makes the Gemini 2.0 model family generally available

Google

Anthropic challenges the public to jailbreak its new safety filter

Anthropic

OpenAI launches Deep Research, an agent that browses and writes reports

OpenAI

OpenAI ships o3-mini, a cheaper reasoning model with a free tier

OpenAI

Mistral releases Small 3, a 24B open model tuned for speed

Mistral AI

Italy's data protection authority orders an emergency block on DeepSeek

DeepSeek · Garante per la protezione dei dati personali

Wiz finds DeepSeek's database open on the internet, no password needed

DeepSeek · Wiz

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Gov for US government agencies

OpenAI

Microsoft and OpenAI investigate DeepSeek over possible distillation

Microsoft · OpenAI · DeepSeek

Alibaba launches Qwen2.5-Max, its flagship model, against DeepSeek

Alibaba

Nvidia loses nearly $600 billion in market value after DeepSeek’s R1 release

NVIDIA · DeepSeek

DeepSeek releases Janus-Pro, an open text-to-image model

DeepSeek

Zuckerberg commits Meta to $60-65 billion in AI capex for 2025

Meta

Operator drives the browser instead of calling an API

OpenAI

An executive order trades the safety framework for an action plan

White House

Stargate commits $500 billion to data centers

OpenAI · Oracle · SoftBank · MGX

Moonshot AI ships Kimi k1.5, an o1-class reasoning model

Moonshot AI

DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng attends a meeting with China’s premier

DeepSeek

DeepSeek releases R1 reasoning weights and smaller distilled models

DeepSeek

Perplexity offers to merge with TikTok US ahead of the ban deadline

Perplexity · ByteDance

Microsoft bundles Copilot into Microsoft 365 Personal and Family

Microsoft

Commerce Department issues a three-tier rule on AI chip exports

United States Department of Commerce

Unsealed filings show Zuckerberg approved training Llama on LibGen

Meta

Nvidia unveils Project DIGITS, a desktop AI supercomputer

NVIDIA

Sam Altman says OpenAI now knows how to build AGI

OpenAI

Microsoft commits $80 billion to AI datacenters for fiscal 2025

Microsoft

OpenAI announces plan to become a for-profit company

OpenAI

South Korea's National Assembly passes an AI Basic Act

South Korea

DeepSeek releases V3 with open weights

DeepSeek

Alibaba's Qwen team releases QVQ, an open visual reasoning model

Alibaba

xAI raises $6 billion in a Series C round

xAI

OpenAI announces o3 and o3-mini, skipping straight past o2

OpenAI

Perplexity raises $500 million at a $9 billion valuation

Perplexity

GitHub Copilot becomes free for every developer in VS Code

GitHub

ChatGPT gets a phone number anyone can call

OpenAI

Anthropic publishes evidence of alignment faking in Claude

Anthropic

NVIDIA cuts the price of its Jetson Orin Nano developer kit

NVIDIA

Databricks raises $10 billion at a $62 billion valuation

Databricks

Waymo announces its first international expansion, in Tokyo

Waymo

Google DeepMind announces Veo 2, a sharper video model

Google DeepMind

Tesla widely releases Full Self-Driving version 13

Tesla

SoftBank pledges $100 billion for US investment

SoftBank

Broadcom's AI revenue jumps 220 percent, stock tops $1 trillion

Broadcom

ChatGPT's voice mode learns to see through your camera and screen

OpenAI

Google unveils Gemini 2.0 for what it calls the agentic era

Google DeepMind

ChatGPT arrives inside Siri as Apple Intelligence expands

Apple · OpenAI

OpenAI launches Sora to the public

OpenAI

China opens antitrust investigation into Nvidia

NVIDIA · State Administration for Market Regulation

Second lawsuit accuses Character.AI of harming minors

Character.AI · Google

Meta releases Llama 3.3, a 70B model that matches its 405B one

Meta

Microsoft previews Copilot Vision, an AI that watches you browse

Microsoft

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pro and the full o1 model

OpenAI

Amazon launches Nova, its own foundation model family

Amazon

US tightens export controls on China's chipmaking industry

United States Department of Commerce

Five Canadian news organizations sue OpenAI over copyright

OpenAI

Germany rules Microsoft's Inflection AI hire-out counts as a merger

Microsoft · Inflection AI

Alibaba previews QwQ, an open reasoning model that thinks before it answers

Alibaba

ByteDance sues former intern for $1.1 million over AI training sabotage

ByteDance

OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji found dead in San Francisco

OpenAI

Artists leak access to OpenAI's Sora video model in protest

OpenAI

Allen Institute for AI releases OLMo 2, its most capable fully open model family

Allen Institute for AI

Nvidia shows off Fugatto, a model that generates and transforms any sound

NVIDIA

Anthropic introduces the Model Context Protocol

Anthropic

Amazon puts another $4 billion into Anthropic

Amazon · Anthropic

DeepSeek previews its first reasoning model, R1-Lite-Preview

DeepSeek

Google DeepMind's AlphaQubit learns to decode quantum computing errors

Google DeepMind

Suno launches v4, its most capable AI song generation model

Suno

Microsoft previews Copilot Actions and a wave of autonomous agents at Ignite

Microsoft

Mistral releases Pixtral Large, a 124B open-weight multimodal model

Mistral AI

Cerebras runs Llama 3.1 405B at 969 tokens per second, a new inference record

Cerebras · Meta

Enterprise AI platform Writer raises $200 million at a $1.9 billion valuation

Writer

Alibaba releases the Qwen2.5-Coder family, six open code models up to 32B

Alibaba

Cursor's maker Anysphere acquires AI coding assistant Supermaven

Anysphere · Supermaven

Anthropic, Palantir and AWS sell Claude to defense and intelligence agencies

Anthropic · Palantir · Amazon

Physical Intelligence raises $400 million to build a foundation model for robots

Physical Intelligence · OpenAI

Claude 3.5 Haiku becomes available

Anthropic

Hugging Face releases SmolLM2, small language models built to run on phones

Hugging Face

Anthropic ships Claude desktop apps for Mac and Windows

Anthropic

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Search

OpenAI

Google DeepMind previews longer, multi speaker AI dialogue audio

Google DeepMind

OpenAI designs a custom AI chip with Broadcom and TSMC

OpenAI · Broadcom · TSMC

Google says AI now writes more than a quarter of its new code

Google

GitHub Copilot adds Claude and Gemini alongside GPT models

GitHub · Anthropic · Google · OpenAI

Open Source Initiative publishes the Open Source AI Definition 1.0

Open Source Initiative

Apple Intelligence ships in iOS 18.1, its first public release

Apple

Researcher turns Claude's computer use feature into a botnet client

Anthropic

Meta ships quantized Llama 3.2 models for phones

Meta

Claude gets an analysis tool that runs JavaScript in the browser

Anthropic

Cerebras triples its inference speed to 2,100 tokens per second

Cerebras

Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion 3.5

Stability AI

Runway introduces Act-One for AI character performances

Runway

Claude gets a mouse and keyboard

Anthropic

Anthropic releases an upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Anthropic

Mother sues Character.AI over teen son's death by suicide

Character.AI · Google

Dow Jones and the New York Post sue Perplexity for copyright

Perplexity · News Corp

IBM releases Granite 3.0 open language models

IBM

Adobe launches the Firefly Video Model in beta at MAX

Adobe

Tesla unveils Cybercab, Robovan and dancing Optimus robots

Tesla

Hassabis and Jumper win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for AlphaFold

Google DeepMind

Hopfield and Hinton win the Nobel Prize in Physics

Princeton University · University of Toronto

Meta previews Movie Gen, a video and audio generation model

Meta

ChatGPT gets Canvas, a workspace for writing and code

OpenAI

AI coding startup Poolside raises $500 million Series B

Poolside

OpenAI raises $6.6 billion at a $157 billion valuation

OpenAI

OpenAI DevDay debuts a Realtime API for voice apps

OpenAI

o1 trades inference time for reasoning

OpenAI

The EU AI Act enters into force

European Union

Claude 3.5 Sonnet beats the flagship at a fifth of the price

Anthropic

Apple announces Apple Intelligence, with ChatGPT inside

Apple · OpenAI

OpenAI reports covert influence operations using its models

OpenAI

The Army gives Palantir $480 million to take Maven to production

Palantir · United States Army

Mistral releases Codestral under a non-production license

Mistral AI

OpenAI forms a safety committee as its next frontier model trains

OpenAI

xAI raises $6 billion

xAI

OpenAI signs News Corp, the biggest publisher deal yet

OpenAI · News Corp

NVIDIA reports revenue up 262 percent and splits its stock ten for one

NVIDIA

Suno raises $125 million for text-to-song

Suno

Frontier labs sign the Seoul safety commitments

OpenAI · Anthropic · Google · Meta · Microsoft · Amazon · Mistral AI · xAI · Cohere · G42 · IBM · Inflection AI · Naver · Samsung Electronics · Technology Innovation Institute · Zhipu AI

Anthropic maps millions of features inside a frontier model

Anthropic

Scale AI raises $1 billion for the data foundry

Scale AI

Microsoft introduces Copilot+ PCs, with Recall

Microsoft

OpenAI pulls ChatGPT's Sky voice

OpenAI

Colorado enacts the first comprehensive US state AI law

State of Colorado

Sony Music tells 700 AI companies not to train on its catalog

Sony Music Group

OpenAI signs Reddit for data and distribution

OpenAI · Reddit

Ilya Sutskever leaves OpenAI and the superalignment team dissolves

OpenAI

Google puts AI Overviews on Search in the US

Google

Gemini 1.5 Flash and Project Astra debut at Google I/O

Google · Google DeepMind

GPT-4o talks back in real time

OpenAI

OpenAI publishes the first Model Spec

OpenAI

Microsoft commits $3.3 billion to a Wisconsin AI datacenter

Microsoft

US revokes Intel and Qualcomm licenses to sell chips to Huawei

United States Department of Commerce · Intel · Qualcomm · Huawei

Stack Overflow licenses its answers to OpenAI

Stack Overflow · OpenAI

Anthropic launches the Claude Team plan and an iOS app

Anthropic

Eight Alden Global Capital newspapers sue OpenAI and Microsoft

Alden Global Capital · OpenAI · Microsoft

Llama 3 narrows the gap to the closed models

Meta

Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute closes after 19 years

Future of Humanity Institute

The European Parliament adopts the AI Act

European Union

Claude 3 takes the top of the benchmarks

Anthropic

Sora generates a minute of coherent video

OpenAI

Google answers with Gemini

Google

Mamba offers a Transformer alternative that carries fixed-size state

Carnegie Mellon University · Princeton University

OpenAI's board fires Sam Altman, briefly

OpenAI

OpenAI's first DevDay introduces GPTs

OpenAI

xAI puts Grok into beta

xAI

Mistral 7B beats models twice its size

Mistral AI

Amazon commits up to $4 billion to Anthropic

Amazon · Anthropic

Llama 2 ships with a commercial license

Meta · Microsoft

Elon Musk announces xAI

xAI

Claude 2 opens to the public

Anthropic

Direct Preference Optimization takes the reward model out of RLHF

Stanford University

GPT-4 arrives with a technical report that says nothing

OpenAI

Anthropic introduces Claude

Anthropic

Meta releases LLaMA to researchers, and then to everyone

Meta

Microsoft extends the OpenAI partnership by a reported $10 billion

Microsoft · OpenAI

OpenAI launches ChatGPT

OpenAI

Stable Diffusion puts image generation on a home GPU

Stability AI · CompVis · Runway

FlashAttention speeds up attention by moving less memory, not less math

Stanford University

DALL·E 2 makes the waitlist a status symbol

OpenAI

Chinchilla finds the big models were undertrained, not undersized

DeepMind

Chain-of-thought prompting gets reasoning out of a model without training it

Google

InstructGPT becomes the OpenAI API default and RLHF reaches customers

OpenAI

OpenAI opens Codex to a private beta

OpenAI

GitHub Copilot writes code in the editor

GitHub · OpenAI

LoRA makes fine-tuning a 35MB file instead of a second copy of the model

Microsoft

Anthropic launches with $124 million

Anthropic

OpenAI ships DALL·E and CLIP on the same day

OpenAI

AlphaFold 2 predicts protein structures with high accuracy at CASP14

DeepMind

OpenAI sells access instead of weights

OpenAI

GPT-3 learns tasks from the prompt

OpenAI

OpenAI's scaling laws paper turns model size into a budgeting decision

OpenAI

Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAI

Microsoft · OpenAI

OpenAI withholds GPT-2 and starts an argument

OpenAI

AlphaFold wins CASP13 on its first entry

DeepMind

BERT learns language from both directions

Google

OpenAI pretrains a transformer on unlabeled text

OpenAI

Google Duplex books a haircut over the phone

Google

AlphaZero generalizes self-play beyond Go

DeepMind

AlphaGo Zero learns Go from nothing

DeepMind

Attention Is All You Need introduces the transformer

Google

Microsoft's Tay lasts sixteen hours

Microsoft

AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol

DeepMind

OpenAI is founded as a nonprofit

OpenAI

ResNet makes depth trainable

Microsoft Research

Google open sources TensorFlow

Google

Amazon puts Alexa in a speaker

Amazon

Generative adversarial networks arrive

Université de Montréal

Google acquires DeepMind

Google · DeepMind

word2vec turns words into arithmetic

Google

AlexNet wins ImageNet and everyone changes jobs

University of Toronto

Google finds a cat neuron in YouTube

Google

Apple puts a voice assistant in everyone's pocket

Apple

Watson wins Jeopardy

IBM

The Netflix Prize pays out $1 million

Netflix

ImageNet turns data into the bottleneck

Princeton University

Hinton makes deep networks trainable again

University of Toronto

Random forests make the ensemble the default

University of California Berkeley

Convolutional networks go to work reading checks

AT&T · Université de Montréal

LSTM gives networks a memory

Technische Universität München · IDSIA

Deep Blue beats Kasparov

IBM

Support vector machines take the field

AT&T

Backpropagation reaches Nature

Carnegie Mellon University · University of California San Diego

The Lighthill report starts the first AI winter

Science Research Council

ELIZA proves how little it takes to be believed

MIT

Arthur Samuel names machine learning

IBM

Rosenblatt's perceptron learns in public

Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory

The Dartmouth workshop names the field

Dartmouth College

Turing asks whether machines can think, then changes the question

University of Manchester