The AI Timeline — One Year Ago in AI

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July 2025 3

2025-07-03Ilya Sutskever takes over as CEO of Safe Superintelligencebusiness

2025-07-02Perplexity joins the $200 club with Max tierproduct

2025-07-01Cloudflare flips the default: AI crawlers now blocked on new sitespolicy

June 2025 5

2025-06-30Zuckerberg announces Meta Superintelligence Labsbusiness

2025-06-25Google launches Gemini CLI, an open-source AI agent for the terminalproduct

2025-06-24Federal judge rules Anthropic's AI training on copyrighted books is fair use, but library of pirated copies must go to trialpolicy

2025-06-12Meta invests $14.3 billion for 49% stake in Scale AI, lands founder Alexandr Wangbusiness

2025-06-10OpenAI launches o3-pro reasoning modelmodel launch

May 2025 5

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

2025-05-16OpenAI launches Codex, an AI coding agent, in ChatGPTproduct

April 2025 5

2025-04-29Alibaba releases Qwen3, a family of hybrid AI models with open weightsmodel launch

2025-04-29OpenAI rolls back GPT-4o update after model becomes overly sycophanticmodel launch

2025-04-16OpenAI launches o3 and o4-mini reasoning models with tool use and image thinkingmodel launch

2025-04-14OpenAI launches GPT-4.1 family of coding-focused models via APImodel launch

2025-04-05Meta releases Llama 4 Scout, Maverick, and Behemoth, claims 10-million-token context and top-tier benchmark scoresmodel launch

March 2025 6

2025-03-31OpenAI closes record $40B funding round at $300B valuationbusiness

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 releases Gemma 3, claiming it's the most capable open model for a single GPU or TPUopen weights

2025-03-11OpenAI releases Responses API and open-source Agents SDK for building AI agentsproduct

2025-03-06Manus, an invite-only Chinese AI agent, goes viral with autonomous task demosproduct

February 2025 5

2025-02-27OpenAI previews GPT-4.5 Orion, its largest AI model yetmodel launch

2025-02-24Anthropic launches Claude 3.7 Sonnet, a hybrid reasoning model, and Claude Code terminal toolproduct

2025-02-17xAI releases Grok 3, claiming benchmark wins over GPT-4omodel launch

2025-02-10Elon Musk-led consortium bids $97.4B for OpenAI nonprofitbusiness

2025-02-02OpenAI launches deep research agent for ChatGPT Pro usersproduct

January 2025 5

2025-01-31OpenAI launches o3-mini reasoning model for free ChatGPT usersmodel launch

2025-01-27Nvidia loses close to $600 billion in market cap as Chinese AI lab DeepSeek sparks sell-offbusiness

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

2025-01-20DeepSeek releases R1, an open-weights reasoning model matching OpenAI o1 on math and code at a fraction of the costmodel launch

December 2024 8

2024-12-26DeepSeek releases V3, a 671B MoE model showing comparable benchmark performance to GPT-4o and Claude 3.5model launch

2024-12-23xAI closes $6B Series C at over $40B valuation, plans to double Colossus in sizebusiness

2024-12-20OpenAI unveils o3 reasoning models, claiming step change on path to AGImodel launch

2024-12-16Google unveils Veo 2 video model with 4K output and improved physicsproduct

2024-12-11Google debuts Gemini 2.0 Flash, at twice the speed of 1.5 Pro, and unveils agentic research prototypesmodel launch

2024-12-09OpenAI launches Sora video-generation tool for US and international users, but not EU or UKproduct

2024-12-06Meta releases Llama 3.3 70B Instructmodel launch

2024-12-03Amazon unveils Nova family of multimodal AI models at re:Inventmodel 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, matching GPT-4o on coding benchmarksmodel launch

2024-11-11AI Scaling Laws Show Diminishing Returns, Labs Turn to Test-Time Computeresearch

2024-11-04Anthropic releases Claude 3.5 Haiku at quadruple the price of its predecessormodel launch

October 2024 7

2024-10-29GitHub Copilot adds Anthropic and Google models alongside OpenAI’sproduct

2024-10-28Apple Intelligence ships with iOS 18.1, bringing AI writing tools and notification summaries to iPhonesproduct

2024-10-23Mother sues Character.AI and Google after 14-year-old son dies by suicide following months of chatbot interactionspolicy

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

2024-10-08Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for neural network foundationsresearch

2024-10-02OpenAI closes $6.6B round at $157B valuation, largest VC tranche everbusiness

September 2024 9

2024-09-29Newsom vetoes SB 1047, calls size-based AI regulation too bluntpolicy

2024-09-26OpenAI plans for-profit restructuring as reported financials show $5B loss on $3.7B revenuebusiness

2024-09-25Meta releases Llama 3.2 with vision and on-device models at Connect 2024model launch

2024-09-25OpenAI CTO Mira Murati departs, followed by two top research executivesbusiness

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

2024-09-11Google's NotebookLM adds Audio Overview, generating AI podcast hosts from your documentsproduct

2024-09-05HyperWrite's Reflection Llama-3.1 70B launches with new 'reflection-tuning' techniquecommunity

2024-09-04Ilya Sutskever's startup Safe Superintelligence raises $1B at $5B valuationbusiness

August 2024 5

2024-08-29California legislature passes controversial frontier AI safety bill SB 1047, sends to Governor Newsompolicy

2024-08-22Anysphere raises $60M Series A for AI coding tool Cursorbusiness

2024-08-13xAI launches Grok-2 with image generation, limited guardrailsproduct

2024-08-05OpenAI co-founder John Schulman departs for Anthropic; president Greg Brockman takes sabbaticalcommunity

2024-08-02Google rehires Character.AI CEO Noam Shazeer in licensing dealbusiness

July 2024 4

2024-07-30OpenAI begins Advanced Voice Mode alpha for some ChatGPT Plus usersproduct

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

2024-07-18OpenAI launches GPT-4o mini, slashing prices and replacing GPT-3.5 Turbomodel launch

June 2024 12

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

2024-06-20Anthropic launches Claude 3.5 Sonnet, claims it beats Claude 3 Opus on most benchmarksmodel launch

2024-06-19OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever launches Safe Superintelligence Inc.model launch

2024-06-18Nvidia surpasses Microsoft to become world's most valuable public companybusiness

2024-06-13Microsoft delays Recall release, makes feature opt-in after security concernsproduct

2024-06-11Mistral AI closes €600M Series B, valuation hits $6Bbusiness

2024-06-11Musk withdraws lawsuit against OpenAI without explanationbusiness

2024-06-11Forbes accuses Perplexity of plagiarizing its reporting in AI-generated summary 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

2024-06-04Leopold Aschenbrenner publishes 'Situational Awareness' series arguing AGI by 2027 is 'strikingly plausible'community

May 2024 11

2024-05-26xAI raises $6B in Series B at $18B pre-money valuationbusiness

2024-05-23Google AI Overviews tell users to eat rocks, put glue on pizza in viral screenshot stormproduct

2024-05-23Anthropic lets the public prod a Claude hypnotised by the Golden Gate Bridgeresearch

2024-05-20Microsoft unveils Copilot+ PCs with built-in AI hardware, Recall feature draws privacy questionsproduct

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

2024-05-16OpenAI signs data-licensing deal with Reddit, will train models on its postsbusiness

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 natively multimodal 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 5

2024-04-29Mysterious 'gpt2-chatbot' appears on LMSYS Arena, matches GPT-4 Turbo qualitymodel launch

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 8B and 70B, claims best open models yetmodel launch

2024-04-11Humane Ai Pin reviews land: critics pan $699 wearable as too slow, too hot, too limitedproduct

2024-04-10Mistral releases Mixtral 8x22B under Apache 2.0open weights

March 2024 9

2024-03-27Amazon completes $4B Anthropic investment, final $2.75B tranche closedbusiness

2024-03-27Databricks releases DBRX, a 132B MoE open model claiming SOTA among open LLMsopen weights

2024-03-22Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque resigns, cites need for decentralized AIbusiness

2024-03-19Microsoft hires Mustafa Suleyman to lead new consumer AI division, poaching most of Inflection's staffbusiness

2024-03-18Nvidia unveils Blackwell GPU platform, promising up to 30x inference leap over H100compute

2024-03-17xAI releases Grok-1 as open-source model under Apache 2.0 licenseopen weights

2024-03-13European Parliament approves world’s first comprehensive AI lawpolicy

2024-03-12Cognition unveils Devin, 'the first AI software engineer' — autonomous coding, debugging, and deployment in a sandboxed environmentproduct

2024-03-04Anthropic unveils Claude 3 family, claims Opus beats GPT-4 on key benchmarksmodel launch

February 2024 10

2024-02-29Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, alleging betrayal of nonprofit AI missionbusiness

2024-02-27Apple cancels electric car project, moves staff to AI divisionbusiness

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

2024-02-21Google releases Gemma 2B and 7B, open-weight LLMs, entering the race against Llama and Mistralmodel launch

2024-02-19Groq's LPU demos go viral, drawing attention for speedcompute

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

2024-02-14Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline's chatbotpolicy

2024-02-08Google retires Bard, launches Gemini and Gemini Advanced with Ultra 1.0 at about $20/monthproduct

January 2024 5

2024-01-26White House 'alarmed' by circulation of fake AI-generated Taylor Swift photospolicy

2024-01-17DeepMind unveils AlphaGeometry, an AI system that solves Olympiad geometry problems at gold-medalist levelresearch

2024-01-12Anthropic researchers show AI models can be trained to deceive, and safety training fails to remove the deceptionresearch

2024-01-10OpenAI launches GPT Store, introduces ChatGPT Team tierproduct

2024-01-04Microsoft adds dedicated Copilot key to Windows keyboards, first major layout change in 30 yearsproduct

December 2023 4

2023-12-27New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement over training datapolicy

2023-12-08Mistral AI releases Mixtral 8x7B, a sparse MoE model that matches or outperforms GPT-3.5open weights

2023-12-07Google’s Gemini demo video was staged, not real-time interactionbusiness

2023-12-06Google unveils Gemini 1.0, claims state-of-the-art performance and native multimodalitymodel launch

November 2023 7

2023-11-20Microsoft hires Altman and Brockman to lead new AI research team; OpenAI employees press board to resignbusiness

2023-11-19OpenAI taps former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear as interim chief after Altman ousterbusiness

2023-11-17OpenAI board fires CEO Sam Altman, citing lack of candorbusiness

2023-11-17Greg Brockman quits OpenAI after board fires Sam Altmanbusiness

2023-11-06OpenAI unveils GPT-4 Turbo with 128k context, cuts prices at first DevDayproduct

2023-11-04xAI unveils Grok, a chatbot with real-time X access and a 'rebellious streak'model launch

2023-11-0129 Countries and EU Sign Bletchley Declaration on Frontier AI Riskspolicy

October 2023 1

2023-10-30Biden signs first US AI executive order, invoking Defense Production Act for model reportingpolicy

September 2023 4

2023-09-27Mistral AI releases open-source Mistral 7B model, outperforms larger Llama 2model launch

2023-09-25Amazon to invest up to $4 billion in AI startup Anthropicbusiness

2023-09-25ChatGPT gains voice conversations and image recognition in major updateproduct

2023-09-20OpenAI unveils DALL-E 3 with native ChatGPT integration and artist opt-out for training dataproduct

August 2023 1

2023-08-24Meta releases Code Llama, a code-generating AI model built on Llama 2model launch

July 2023 5

2023-07-21Seven AI Companies Sign Voluntary White House Commitments on Safety and Securitypolicy

2023-07-18Meta releases Llama 2, an open-source large language model free for commercial usemodel launch

2023-07-12Elon Musk launches xAI, a new artificial intelligence companybusiness

2023-07-11Anthropic unveils Claude 2 with 100k-token context window, opens chat to publicmodel launch

2023-07-05OpenAI launches Superalignment team, says the new team will have access to 20% of its computeresearch

June 2023 1

2023-06-29Inflection AI raises $1.3B from Microsoft, Nvidia, Gates and Schmidt at $4B valuationbusiness

May 2023 5

2023-05-30AI extinction risk is a global priority, AI experts and public figures warn in one-sentence statementpolicy

2023-05-30Nvidia joins $1 trillion market cap club after blockbuster earnings forecastbusiness

2023-05-16OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tells Senate AI regulation is essential, warns technology needs safeguardspolicy

2023-05-10Google unveils PaLM 2 and expands Bard to new languages at I/O 2023product

2023-05-01Godfather of AI Geoffrey Hinton quits Google to warn about the technology's dangerscommunity

April 2023 2

2023-04-20Alphabet merges Google Brain and DeepMind into Google DeepMind under Demis Hassabisbusiness

2023-04-17AI-generated Drake and Weeknd track pulled from streaming services after going viralcommunity

March 2023 10

2023-03-31Italy blocks ChatGPT over privacy violations, first Western ban on AI chatbotpolicy

2023-03-30AutoGPT expands as a GitHub repo for building AI agents.open weights

2023-03-29Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak Sign Open Letter Calling for Six-Month Pause on Training AI Systems More Powerful Than GPT-4policy

2023-03-23OpenAI connects ChatGPT to the internet with plugins, marking platform pivotproduct

2023-03-16Microsoft launches Microsoft 365 Copilot, embedding GPT-4 across 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

2023-03-03Meta's LLaMA large language model leaks online via 4chan torrentopen weights

2023-03-01OpenAI launches ChatGPT API with gpt-3.5-turbo, plus dedicated capacity for enterprise customers.product

February 2023 4

2023-02-24Meta unveils LLaMA, a family of foundational language models aimed at researchersmodel launch

2023-02-07Microsoft unveils AI-powered Bing and Edge, running next-generation OpenAI modelproduct

2023-02-06Google announces Bard, an experimental conversational AI service, to counter ChatGPTproduct

2023-02-01ChatGPT reaches 100 million users two months after launch, analysts sayproduct

January 2023 1

2023-01-23Microsoft confirms multiyear, multibillion-dollar investment in OpenAIbusiness