Events

For reinforcement learning, the method behind AlphaGo, RLHF and reasoning models.

OpenAI, SoftBank and Oracle announce $500 billion of US data centres. Compute as national infrastructure.

An open-weights reasoning model at o1 level from a Chinese lab with a fraction of the compute. Nvidia lost $590 billion in market value in one day a week later.

Anthropic open-sources a standard for tools and data. The USB-C of agents.

Half for computational protein design, half for AlphaFold.

For foundational discoveries that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.

The first reasoning model. Thinks before it answers, and spends more compute on harder problems.

The first broad law on AI. Risk tiers, bans on some uses, duties for general-purpose models. In force from August 2024.

Fired on a Friday, reinstated the next Wednesday after most staff threatened to leave for Microsoft. The board was replaced.

The Future of Life Institute asks labs to pause training beyond GPT-4 for six months. Thirty thousand signatures. No pause.

Multimodal, passes the bar exam, and the first model whose makers withheld all technical detail.

Meta's research-only model appears on 4chan a week after release. Within weeks: llama.cpp, Alpaca, and the open model ecosystem.

A chat interface on GPT-3.5. One hundred million users in two months, the fastest adoption of any consumer product.

Open weights for a text-to-image model that runs on a gaming GPU. Image generation leaves the labs.