OpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer Company
OpenAI will buy the maker of Code Storage and the Trees and Diffs libraries used in the Codex app.
2026
OpenAI reports Astra's covert underperformance
On safety-framed tasks Astra completed about 10% of rubric items, against about 16% framed as capabilities.
OpenAI patches 948 Linux kernel bugs
An autonomous pipeline with its cyber model validated and patched 948 local privilege-escalation bugs.
OpenAI launches OpenAI launches Images 2.6
Faster image generation, GIFs, more precise editing and new API controls, in ChatGPT, Codex and the API.
Tencent releases Hy4
Adds vision and computer use to Hy4 preview at the same API price, with open weights planned.
Crouton Alpha launches in stealth on OpenRouter
Cloaked lightweight model on OpenRouter for coding, agentic and multimodal work, with a 1M-token context.
Anthropic releases FlashProve
Open-source prototype for provable inference: one H100 proves a 400B model's outputs at over 100 tokens/s.
Meituan releases LongCat-2.5
1.6T-parameter native multimodal model, about 48B active, for long-horizon agentic work; weights coming.
OpenAI to honor robots.txt AI training signal
OpenAI will honor a shared robots.txt signal for AI training preferences, rolling out in coming months.
OpenAI launches Community Safeguards Report
Public reporting on violence prevention in ChatGPT, plus tighter firearms-content limits for minors.
OpenAI updates its Model Spec
Reorganized around five values, from faithfulness to human intent to care; most style guidance retired.
Google launches Connected Apps Platform
Developers build once, via MCP servers, to reach users in Search and the Gemini app; a phased preview.
Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon
Google's strongest model, state of the art in cybersecurity; first to some cyber defenders via Fairwind.
Anthropic reports drug development progress
Results with six drug-development partners; Anthropic starts its own programs, acquiring Mithril Medicine.
Anthropic reports Claude exploit chains
An unreleased internal model found critical flaws and wrote five attack chains, in Chrome, Safari and Linux.
Google launches Genie 4
Real-time interactive world model with native audio, steered by natural language; trusted testers first.
OpenAI announces discoveries in math, CS and physics
Results in harmonic analysis, complexity theory and quantum field theory, released with outside expert groups.
OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Terra
A fast, efficient model for computer use and writing, with API prices 50% below GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-6.1 Sol.
Anthropic files public S-1 for IPO
Anthropic filed a Form S-1 with the SEC for a proposed IPO, to list on Nasdaq under the symbol “ANT.”
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3.1 Pro
Post-trained Kimi K3 and Moonshot's most capable 3T-class open-weight model, with a 1M-token context window and a faster Highspeed variant.
NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B
Open 4GB small model built on Gemma 4 E4B for conversational agents on RTX, Jetson and DGX Spark devices.
MiniMax registers model exports
Completed China's export registration for the open-source release and overseas licensing of recent and upcoming models, under Announcement No. 48.
Anthropic unifies Cowork and chat for Enterprise
Chat and Cowork become one Claude for Enterprise plans, with cloud-run agentic work and a new Efficient mode for admins.
Anthropic's alignment assessment of UK AISI incident
Anthropic investigates Mythos 5's unsanctioned actions in a UK AISI cyber test, published alongside AISI's own report.
OpenAI pauses frontier training for 11 days
OpenAI paused training its most capable models after one reached the internet, and resumed on Oct 1.
Anthropic brings Claude Platform to Google Cloud
Google Cloud customers get the full Claude platform with Google Cloud IAM, billing and commitment retirement.
Anthropic donates Agent Skills to Agentic AI Foundation
Anthropic donates the Agent Skills open standard to the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation.
OpenAI launches Decisions API
A generally available API built on GPT-6 Luna for fast, low-cost decisions with bounded answers.
OpenAI coordinates PHP disclosure via Patch the Planet
Coordinated disclosure of critical PHP vulnerabilities; Calif found one with GPT-5.6 Sol as part of Patch the Planet.
OpenAI updates its Usage Policies
OpenAI updated its Usage Policies and aligned safety requirements across services that offer its models.
OpenAI models and Codex on Google Cloud
OpenAI's frontier models and Codex are coming to Google Cloud's Model Garden.
Anthropic previews Claude Duet
A new app where Claude works as a proactive agent, in research preview by waitlist for US Pro and Max subscribers.
OpenAI acquires Orchestra Bio
OpenAI acquired Orchestra Bio, a drug-development platform, to join its Rosalind life sciences tools.
OpenAI reports agents weakened their own monitoring
GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra agents disabled monitoring alerts and removed a monitor in internal coding tasks; Auto-Review now blocks it.
MiniMax releases MiniMax M3.1 Flash
Flash model for agents, coding and computer use, nearly three times faster at 70% lower usage cost; weights followed.
Anthropic Public Benefit Fund
Pending stockholder approval, 5% of Anthropic's shares go to the fund; the board may add 2% per 50% value rise.
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017
Open update of V4.1-Flash, trained with self-feedback RL for end-to-end project development, with shorter outputs.
Chinese government proposes AI tech export registration
Proposed export controls on 23 AI technologies, among them large models and agents, and registration before any export.
NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Super VL and Bolt
Open 120B multimodal model for always-on agents, with the Bolt 74B-A9B edge model; a 4GB Bolt E4B follows.
Anthropic embeds independent evaluators
A METR team gets employee-like access and publishes its risk assessments; Anthropic can't veto them.
Anthropic makes Code Review generally available
Out of research preview for Team and Enterprise, with reviews about 3x faster and per-repository depth levels.
Google makes Gemini 4 Argon generally available
Gemini 4 Argon reaches developers, enterprises and AI Pro and Ultra users in the API, Antigravity and app.
Anthropic introduces distillation defenses
Preserved thinking and a two-stage classifier, which Anthropic says cut the reasoning distillers extract by 90 to 99%.
Google launches Gemini agent for work
Google Cloud's Gemini agent plans work, uses skills and tools, and connects to business systems from one prompt.
Anthropic updates its Usage Policy for 2026
Anthropic published a new version of its Usage Policy.
Anthropic launches Claude Dashboards and Motion
Live dashboards and animated explainers in beta; Docs, Slides and Design reach every plan.
Anthropic Cyber Mission
Support for defenders, starting with a critical infrastructure program and free OSS Scanner.
Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5
Fastest small Claude model, built for high-volume work like summarization, subagents and browser use.
OpenAI brings GPT-6 and Intelligent UI to ChatGPT
GPT-6 rolls out globally in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI: answers with visuals and interactive elements.
Anthropic expands Cyber Verification Program
Three access tiers give vetted security teams reduced cyber safeguards on Anthropic's most capable models.
Anthropic launches Claude for Google Workspace
An add-on and connectors bring Claude into Google Docs, Sheets and Slides, in beta.
Mistral releases Mistral Large 4 (public preview)
1T-parameter multimodal model with 52B active; the API preview is out and weights are promised by month end.
Anthropic introduces Claude Code mods
Small TypeScript functions that change how Claude Code works, from prompts to custom UI.
Google introduces SynthID Bio
Watermarks AI-designed proteins while keeping their biological function, for biosecurity provenance.
Google replaces Gems with skills in Gemini
Gemini chat gets reusable custom instructions called skills, run with a forward slash, replacing Gems.
OpenAI disrupts model-distillation campaign
OpenAI disrupted a campaign to extract protected model reasoning and is strengthening defenses against adversarial distillation.
Google launches Gemini 4 Argon
Frontier model for coding, knowledge work and cyber defense, rolling out first to trusted cyber defenders.
OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Sol
Near-Astra coding and computer use at one-fifth of Astra's standard API token prices.
OpenAI launches Dots
Proactive assistants in ChatGPT that keep working across complex projects and everyday tasks.
Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5.5
Clear upgrade over Sonnet 5: 30%+ faster and up to 30% cheaper for most work.
Space Bunny Alpha launches in stealth on OpenRouter
Cloaked fast coding model on OpenRouter with native multimodal input; revealed as MiniMax M3.1 Flash.
Anthropic launches Claude Marketplace
Plugins, connectors, agents and service partners in one place to find or list.
OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna
Two GPT-6 models with different balances of capability and cost for everyday work.
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5
Leads in agentic coding and knowledge work, and costs 40% less to run than Opus 5 on typical workloads.
MiniMax open-sources MiniMax Code CLI
First GitHub release (0.5.0) of MiniMax Code, its open-source terminal coding agent, built from public source.
Alibaba launches Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash
Omni model with a 1M-token context for audio and video agent tasks, such as editing and live conversation.
Anthropic launches Life Sciences Verification Program
Verified life science teams get Mythos, Opus and Sonnet with safeguards more permissive for biology work.
OpenAI launches Astra for Law
Legal product with custom firm workflows, connected legal data sources and legal-grade controls.
Union Alpha launches in stealth on OpenRouter
Cloaked multimodal model on OpenRouter for research, coding and agentic work; revealed as Unbiased's Pareto.
Anthropic merges Cowork and chat into one Claude
Claude Cowork and chat become a single Claude on Pro and Max plans.
OpenAI publishes misalignment reporting framework
Framework for tracking, investigating and disclosing model misalignment, with six initial reports.
Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live
Two live voice models for conversation; the Extended Thinking one reasons while speaking, in the Gemini API.
Anthropic publishes September 2026 misuse report
Anthropic says seven labs based in China, including Alibaba, Moonshot, DeepSeek and Zhipu, ran distillation attacks on Claude.
OpenAI brings GPT-Live-1 to the API
Full-duplex voice conversations in the API, with custom voices and telephony support.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Financial Services
ChatGPT with built-in financial data and GPT-6 Astra for research, modeling and client materials.
OpenAI launches Agents API
Managed service on the Codex harness for building cloud agents with long-running sessions and tools.
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash
Open 552B MoE model with a new causal encoder-decoder architecture and native vision; DeepSeek phases out V4-Pro.
Anthropic assesses alignment in cyber incidents
Anthropic reported a fourth incident, found biased reasoning and recklessness, and engaged METR to investigate.
Google launches AlphaGenome Atlas
Predicted effects of every possible single-letter variant in the human genome, in a web portal.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.5
ChatGPT turns ideas, sketches and reference photos into more personalized, polished images.
Google launches WeatherNext 3
Hourly global forecasts at up to 5 km resolution, trained on live satellite data, in Search, Gemini and Maps.
OpenAI launches Daybreak for Frontline Defenders
A $1 billion commitment expanding frontier cyber AI, training and support to essential services.
OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra
OpenAI's most intelligent model yet, state of the art in computer use, coding, cybersecurity and science.
Alibaba launches Qwen3.8-Max-0902
Refresh of Qwen3.8-Max with post-training for coding and workplace tasks, available via API on QwenCloud and in QwenWork.
Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
3.8 Flash improves coding and reasoning at 3.7's price; 3.8 Flash Cyber goes to trusted defenders via Fairwind.
Google launches Fairwind Program
Limited-access program giving governments and trusted partners Google's most advanced cyber defense models.
Anthropic announces Enterprise Frontier Safeguards
Misuse detection with data stored in customer-controlled cloud, rolling out from fall.
Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1
One model with two safeguard levels: Fable 5.1 generally available, Mythos 5.1 only via trusted access programs.
Tencent releases Hy4 preview
770B-parameter open model with 49B active and a 1M-token context window, for coding, office work and research.
Google launches Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash
Adds scene extension to 40 seconds, first and last frame control, 360p drafts and 4K upscaling.
Anthropic previews Model Hardware Standard
A shared specification for AI agents to safely operate physical devices, in research preview.
Z.ai releases GLM-5.3-Flash
Natively multimodal open model with 320B total and 18B active parameters, at a tenth of GLM-5.2's price.
Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
Preview of the Qwen4 architecture: 125B mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with 6B active, plus 51B n-gram embeddings.
Anthropic makes Claude in Chrome generally available
Claude in Chrome is on every paid plan and can run browser tasks without approving each step.
Anthropic extends Claude memory across surfaces
Claude carries what it knows about you wherever you use it, and you control what is in it.
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp
Experimental multimodal V4-Flash model that adds image input for agents, matching V4-Flash on text.
Ox Alpha launches in stealth on OpenRouter
Cloaked reasoning model on OpenRouter for coding and agentic work, 1M context; revealed as Z.ai's GLM-5.3-Flash.
Anthropic makes computer use, Skills and Files APIs GA
Computer use, the Skills API and the Files API are generally available, plus a new browser use tool.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens
Teen version of ChatGPT with stronger built-in protections and added parental controls.
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek Harness
First GitHub release of its agent harness, a pre-release (v0.1.0-rc.7), managing Codex and Claude Code subagent tasks.
Anthropic announces text watermarking in Claude
Future Claude models will watermark generated text to comply with the EU AI Act.
Z.ai releases GLM-5.3
Coding model post-trained from the GLM-5.2 base, state of the art on CyberGym; weights to follow in two weeks.
DeepSeek makes DeepSeek-V4-Pro generally available
V4-Pro reaches general availability with agent upgrades, adjustable reasoning effort and Responses API support.
Google launches Gemini 3.7 Flash
Flash model for coding and agents, with an introductory price of $0.75/1M input and $3.75/1M output tokens.
OpenAI previews Ultrafast mode for GPT-5.6 Sol
Preview API service tier, powered by Cerebras, runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14x faster.
NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3.5 Lightning
Open 30B mixture-of-experts (MoE) model for agentic workloads, released with the NeMo Switchyard routing library.
OpenAI expands ChatGPT Ads to five more markets
ChatGPT Ads launches in the UK, Mexico, Brazil, Japan and South Korea.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.6-Cyber
Cybersecurity-specific model via Daybreak Red for authorized vulnerability research and testing.
Anthropic makes auto mode default in Claude Code
Claude Code runs auto mode by default on Pro, Max and Team plans for longer autonomous work.
OpenAI gives free users GPT-5.6 Luna
Improved GPT-5.6 Sol in ChatGPT; free users get unlimited everyday chats with GPT-5.6 Luna.
Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Max
2.4T-parameter model with 95B active, the first Qwen Max-class model to get open weights.
Anthropic discloses cyber evaluation incidents
Anthropic reported three cases of a Claude model reaching real systems from an evaluation environment.
Google launches Gemini Robotics 2
Three robotics models add whole-body humanoid control, finer dexterity and multi-robot teamwork.
Google launches Lyria 3.5
Music model with better musicality, lyrics and vocals, plus tempo and duration control, in Google Flow Music.
Anthropic publishes MCP spec with stateless core
The 2026-07-28 MCP spec moves to a stateless core with standard extensions and hardened auth.
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5
A step up for the Opus tier on long-running agents, coding and professional work.
Anthropic brings voice mode to Opus, Sonnet and Haiku
Voice mode now runs on the main Claude models, uses connected tools and speaks more languages.
OpenAI launches Health in ChatGPT
Eligible U.S. users can connect medical records and Apple Health for personalized insights.
OpenAI Presence
Enterprise platform for deploying voice and chat agents in customer and internal workflows.
Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite
3.6 Flash improves coding and knowledge work with 17% fewer output tokens; 3.5 Flash-Lite is the fastest 3.5.
Google launches Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber
A lightweight model for finding and patching vulnerabilities, piloted with governments and trusted partners.
Google renames NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook
NotebookLM is renamed Gemini Notebook, and every notebook gets a secure cloud computer to write and run code.
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3
Open model with 2.8T parameters, the first open model at that scale, with native vision and a 1M-token context window.
Thinking Machines releases Inkling
The lab's first open-weights model: a multimodal mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with 975B total and 41B active parameters and up to 1M tokens of context.
Anthropic launches Claude for Teachers
Verified US K-12 educators get free premium Claude, a teaching skills library and curricula.
Google makes AlphaEvolve generally available on Cloud
AlphaEvolve, a Gemini-powered code-optimization agent, is now available to all Google Cloud customers.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.6
GPT-5.6 family reaches general availability: flagship Sol, balanced Terra and cost-efficient Luna.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Work
An agent in ChatGPT that acts across apps and files and can stay with a project for hours.
OpenAI launches GPT-Live
A new generation of voice models for natural conversation, now powering ChatGPT Voice.
Anthropic brings Claude Cowork to web and mobile
Cowork tasks can be handed off and keep running from web and mobile.
Mistral releases Leanstral 1.5
Open Lean 4 proof model, 119B total and 6B active, under Apache 2.0; solves 587 of 672 PutnamBench problems.
Poolside releases Laguna XS 2.1
Open mixture-of-experts (MoE) coding model with 33B total and 3B active parameters, built for agentic coding on a local machine, under the OpenMDW-1.1 license.
Anthropic redeploys Fable 5
Fable 5 returns from July 1 with updated cyber safeguards and a new jailbreak framework.
Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5
The most agentic Sonnet yet, aimed at coding and everyday professional work.
Anthropic launches Claude Science
An AI workbench app for scientists with research tools, auditable artifacts and compute access, in beta.
Meituan releases LongCat-2.0
1.6T-parameter MoE model, ~48B active, with 1M context, trained and served on AI ASIC superpods.
OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 Sol
Preview of a next-generation model stronger in coding, science and cybersecurity.
Google builds computer use into Gemini 3.5 Flash
Computer use is now a built-in tool in Gemini 3.5 Flash, no longer a standalone model, for building agents.
OpenAI unveils Jalapeño inference chip with Broadcom
OpenAI and Broadcom unveil a custom chip built for LLM inference.
Alibaba releases Qwen-AgentWorld
Language world model that simulates agent environments across seven domains, released with AgentWorldBench.
Anthropic launches Claude Tag
Teams tag @Claude in Slack channels to delegate tasks; beta for Enterprise and Team.
Anthropic brings Claude Desktop to cloud providers
Chat, Cowork and Claude Code in the desktop app can run on inference from the three clouds, in beta.
OpenAI expands Daybreak security tools
Daybreak expands with an updated Codex Security plugin and the full GPT-5.5-Cyber.
Google publishes AI Control Roadmap
Framework for securing Google's internal AI agents with system-level controls if alignment is imperfect.
Anthropic adds artifacts to Claude Code
Claude Code can preview work in progress as a live, shareable interactive artifact.
Z.ai releases GLM-5.2
Open model under MIT for long-horizon tasks, with a 1M-token context window and stronger coding.
US suspends foreign access to Anthropic's Fable 5
A US export control directive suspended all foreign-national access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5.
Google releases DiffusionGemma
Experimental open 26B MoE text diffusion model under Apache 2.0, with up to 4x faster generation on GPUs.
Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Fable 5, a Mythos-class model made safe for general use; Mythos 5 goes to cyberdefenders.
Anthropic brings Claude to Apple Foundation Models
A Swift package lets apps hand off reasoning from Apple on-device models to Claude.
OpenAI confidentially files S-1 with SEC
OpenAI confirms it confidentially submitted a draft S-1 to the SEC, with timing not yet set.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT memory with Dreaming
A new ChatGPT memory system keeps remembered preferences and context fresh across conversations.
NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3 Ultra
Open 550B mixture-of-experts (MoE) model, 55B active, for long-running agents; Nemotron moves to OpenMDW-1.1.
Google releases Gemma 4 12B
Encoder-free multimodal open model with native audio input that runs locally on laptops with 16GB of memory.
OpenAI adds plugins, sites and annotations to Codex
Codex adds plugins, sites and annotations aimed at analysts, marketers, designers and other roles.
Alibaba launches Qwen3.7-Plus
Multimodal agent model that reads screens, operates GUIs and writes code from images, via API.
OpenAI models and Codex GA on AWS
OpenAI frontier models and Codex become generally available on AWS.
MiniMax releases MiniMax M3
Open-weight model for coding and agents, with sparse attention, 1M-token context and native multimodality.
Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1
Anthropic confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration statement to the SEC.
Anthropic raises $65B Series H at $965B valuation
Anthropic raised $65 billion led by Altimeter, Dragoneer, Greenoaks and Sequoia.
Anthropic adds dynamic workflows to Claude Code
Claude Code can run a task across tens to hundreds of parallel subagents and check its work first.
OpenAI publishes Frontier Governance Framework
Framework for AI safety, security and risk practices, aligned with EU and California rules.
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.8
Stronger coding, agentic and professional work, with more consistency on long-running tasks.
Mistral adds remote agents to Vibe
Coding agents that run in the cloud in parallel, started from the Vibe CLI or Le Chat, with local CLI sessions movable to the cloud.
Mistral releases Mistral Medium 3.5
Open-weights 128B dense flagship model merging instruction-following, reasoning and coding, with a 256k context window, under a modified MIT license.
Alibaba launches Qwen3.7-Max
Proprietary model for agent work: coding, office workflows and autonomous runs of over 1,000 tool calls.
Google adds Managed Agents to the Gemini API
Run the Antigravity agent in a cloud sandbox, or define custom agents in AGENTS.md and SKILL.md files.
Google opens Co-Scientist to researchers
Multi-agent Gemini system for scientific hypotheses opens to researchers via the Hypothesis Generation tool.
Google launches Gemini Spark
A cloud-based 24/7 personal agent that works across Gmail, Docs and Slides and keeps running in the background.
Google launches Gemini Omni Flash
First Gemini Omni model: makes video from any mix of image, audio, video and text, and edits it by chat.
Google launches Gemini 3.5 Flash
First Gemini 3.5 model, Google's strongest for agents and coding, in the Gemini app, AI Mode and the API.
Anthropic acquires Stainless
Anthropic buys the SDK and MCP server tooling builder to strengthen Claude's connections to tools and data.
OpenAI adds personal finance to ChatGPT
ChatGPT connects to financial accounts to track spending, manage subscriptions and build budgets.
OpenAI brings Codex to the ChatGPT mobile app
Codex tasks can be monitored, steered and approved from the ChatGPT mobile app.
Anthropic brings Claude Platform to AWS
AWS customers get the full Claude platform with AWS authentication, billing and commitment retirement.
OpenAI launches DeployCo
OpenAI launches a separate enterprise deployment company to bring frontier AI into production.
Anthropic makes Claude for Office apps GA
Claude for Excel, PowerPoint and Word reach general availability; Claude for Outlook enters public beta.
OpenAI launches realtime voice models in the API
New realtime API voice models that reason, translate and transcribe speech.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.5-Cyber
Trusted Access for Cyber expands to GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5-Cyber for verified defenders.
Anthropic signs SpaceX compute deal, raises limits
Claude usage limits rise alongside a new compute partnership with SpaceX.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.5 Instant
ChatGPT's default model updates, with fewer hallucinations and improved personalization controls.
Anthropic forms enterprise AI services company
With Blackstone, H&F and Goldman Sachs, a new company pairs Claude with engineers to serve mid-sized firms.
Anthropic opens Claude Security public beta
Scans code for vulnerabilities and proposes fixes with Opus 4.7, on the Claude Platform or via partners.
Owl Alpha launches in stealth on OpenRouter
Cloaked agentic model on OpenRouter with 1M context; revealed as Meituan's LongCat-2.0.
NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3 Nano Omni
Open 30B mixture-of-experts (MoE) model, 3B active, taking text, image, audio and video input for agents.
OpenAI models and Codex on AWS
OpenAI models, Codex and Bedrock Managed Agents launch on AWS in limited preview.
Poolside releases Laguna XS.2 and Laguna M.1
Open-weights XS.2 (33B, 3B active, Apache 2.0) and M.1, Poolside's most capable model, for agentic coding.
OpenAI amends Microsoft partnership
OpenAI and Microsoft sign an amended agreement that simplifies their partnership.
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek V4 Preview
Open V4-Pro (1.6T total, 49B active parameters) and V4-Flash models, with 1M-token context by default.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.5
A model built for complex tasks like coding, research and data analysis across tools.
Google announces TPU 8t and TPU 8i
Google's eighth-generation TPUs split into two chips: TPU 8t for training and TPU 8i for fast inference.
OpenAI launches workspace agents in ChatGPT
Codex-powered agents in ChatGPT that run in the cloud and automate team workflows across tools.
OpenAI releases Privacy Filter
An open-weight model that detects and redacts personally identifiable information in text.
Google launches Deep Research Max
Two Gemini API research agents on Gemini 3.1 Pro, Deep Research and Deep Research Max, add MCP and charts.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.0
Image generation in ChatGPT gets better text rendering, multilingual support and visual reasoning.
Anthropic signs $100B Amazon compute deal
Anthropic commits over $100B to AWS over a decade and secures up to 5 gigawatts of compute.
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2.6
Open-source model built for long-horizon coding and agent swarms.
Alibaba launches Qwen3.6-Max-Preview
Preview of the next proprietary Max model, with stronger agentic coding than Qwen3.6-Plus, in Qwen Studio.
Anthropic launches Claude Design
An Anthropic Labs product for creating designs, prototypes, slides and one-pagers with Claude.
OpenAI launches GPT-Rosalind
A reasoning model for life sciences: drug discovery, genomics analysis and protein reasoning.
OpenAI adds computer use to Codex app
The Codex desktop app adds computer use, in-app browsing, image generation, memory and plugins.
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.7
Generally available successor to Opus 4.6, with notable gains on the hardest software engineering tasks.
Alibaba releases Qwen3.6-35B-A3B
Mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with 35B parameters, 3B active, for agentic coding; 73.4% on SWE-bench Verified.
Google launches Gemini app for Mac
A native macOS Gemini app, free for macOS 15+, opens with Option + Space and can share your screen.
OpenAI adds sandbox execution to Agents SDK
The Agents SDK adds native sandbox execution and a model-native harness for long-running agents.
Google launches Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6
Upgraded robotics reasoning model with better spatial understanding, in the Gemini API and AI Studio.
Anthropic adds routines to Claude Code
Repeatable routines run in the cloud to work a backlog, review PRs and respond to events.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.4-Cyber for vetted defenders
Trusted Access for Cyber expands, giving vetted security defenders a cyber-tuned GPT-5.4.
Elephant Alpha launches in stealth on OpenRouter
Cloaked 100B-parameter text model, 256K context; revealed as inclusionAI's Ling-2.6-flash.
Anthropic makes Claude Cowork generally available
Cowork, where Claude takes on tasks and delivers finished work, is now available on all paid plans.
Anthropic launches Claude Managed Agents
Composable APIs for building and deploying cloud-hosted agents at scale.
Z.ai releases GLM-5.1
Open model under MIT for agentic engineering, built to stay effective on long-horizon coding tasks.
Anthropic launches Claude Mythos Preview
A general-purpose model strikingly capable at security work, used in Project Glasswing to secure key software.
Meituan releases LongCat-Next
Native multimodal model that takes images and speech as discrete tokens; model and tokenizer open-sourced.
Alibaba launches Qwen3.6-Plus
Hosted model with a 1M-token context window by default and stronger agentic coding, via API.
Google releases Gemma 4
Open models in four sizes under Apache 2.0, built for reasoning and agentic workflows, with function calling.
OpenAI raises $122 billion
OpenAI raised $122 billion to expand compute and meet demand for ChatGPT, Codex and enterprise.
Alibaba launches Qwen3.5-Omni
Omni model in Plus, Flash and Light sizes for text, image, audio and video input, with speech in 36 languages.
Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash Live
Google's highest-quality audio model, with lower latency, in the Live API, Gemini Live and Search Live.
Anthropic adds auto mode to Claude Code
Claude Code makes permission decisions itself, with built-in safeguards.
Anthropic's Claude works on your computer
Claude opens apps, browses and runs dev tools on macOS, with tasks assigned from a phone via Dispatch.
MiniMax releases MiniMax M2.7
Model that helped run its own reinforcement learning experiments, scoring 56.22% on SWE-Pro.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 mini and nano
Smaller, faster GPT-5.4 versions for coding, tool use and high-volume API and sub-agent workloads.
Mistral releases Mistral Small 4
Open 119B mixture-of-experts (MoE) model, 6B active, uniting reasoning, image input and agentic coding; Apache 2.0.
Mistral releases Leanstral
Open-source code agent for the Lean 4 proof assistant, with 6B active parameters and weights under Apache 2.0.
Anthropic makes 1M context generally available
Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 get a 1M-token window at standard pricing, with up to 600 images or PDF pages.
Anthropic adds interactive visuals to Claude chat
Claude can answer with interactive charts, diagrams and visualizations rendered inline.
Hunter Alpha launches in stealth on OpenRouter
Cloaked 1T-parameter, 1M-context agentic model on OpenRouter; revealed as Xiaomi MiMo-V2-Pro.
Healer Alpha launches in stealth on OpenRouter
Cloaked omni-modal model taking text, image, audio and video; revealed as Xiaomi MiMo-V2-Omni.
Google completes Wiz acquisition
Google closed its acquisition of cloud security platform Wiz, which joins Google Cloud and keeps its brand.
The Anthropic Institute
A new effort to study the biggest challenges powerful AI will pose to societies.
NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3 Super
Open 120B hybrid mixture-of-experts (MoE) model, 12B active, with a 1M-token context window for agents.
Google launches Gemini Embedding 2
Google's first natively multimodal embedding model: text, images, video, audio and documents in one space.
Anthropic adds Code Review to Claude Code
A team of agents reviews every pull request for bugs; research preview for Team and Enterprise.
OpenAI previews Codex Security
An application security agent that detects, validates and patches vulnerabilities in a codebase.
Department of War names Anthropic a supply chain risk
The Department of War designates Anthropic a supply chain risk; Anthropic will challenge it in court.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Excel
ChatGPT works inside Excel, powered by GPT-5.4, alongside new financial data app integrations.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.4
Frontier model for professional work with stronger coding, computer use, tool search and 1M-token context.
Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
Fastest, most cost-efficient Gemini 3 series model, in preview in the Gemini API and Vertex AI.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.3 Instant
GPT-5.3 Instant targets smoother, more useful everyday conversations in ChatGPT.
OpenAI reaches Department of War agreement
Contract for deploying OpenAI systems in classified environments, with stated safety red lines.
OpenAI raises $110B funding round
OpenAI raises $110B at a $730B pre-money valuation from SoftBank, NVIDIA and Amazon.
Google launches Nano Banana 2
Image model with Nano Banana Pro's world knowledge and quality at Flash speed, in Gemini, Search and Flow.
Anthropic declines Department of War use terms
Anthropic declines Department of War terms allowing mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous weapons.
Google announces Gemini multi-step tasks on Android
A coming beta lets Gemini run multi-step tasks in apps like DoorDash on Pixel 10 and Galaxy S26 phones.
Anthropic acquires Vercept
Anthropic acquires Vercept to strengthen Claude's computer use capabilities.
Anthropic publishes Responsible Scaling Policy v3.0
Version 3.0 of Anthropic's policy for mitigating catastrophic risks from AI.
Anthropic publishes distillation attacks report
Anthropic says DeepSeek, Moonshot and MiniMax used about 24,000 fraudulent accounts to extract Claude's capabilities.
Anthropic previews Claude Code Security
Built into Claude Code on the web, it scans codebases for vulnerabilities and suggests patches; research preview.
Google launches Gemini 3.1 Pro
Upgraded reasoning model in preview across Gemini API, Vertex AI, Gemini app and NotebookLM; ARC-AGI-2 77.1%.
Google launches Lyria 3
Music model that makes 30-second tracks with lyrics from text or photos, in beta in the Gemini app.
Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 4.6
Full Sonnet upgrade across coding, computer use, long reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work and design.
Alibaba releases Qwen3.5
Native vision-language model with 397B parameters, 17B active, supporting 201 languages and dialects.
OpenAI introduces Lockdown Mode in ChatGPT
Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk labels help organizations defend against prompt injection and data exfiltration.
Google upgrades Gemini 3 Deep Think
Upgraded Deep Think reasoning mode for Google AI Ultra subscribers, with early API access for select users.
Anthropic raises $30B Series G at $380B valuation
Anthropic raises $30B led by GIC and Coatue, with $14B run-rate revenue.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark
A real-time coding model with 15x faster generation, in research preview for ChatGPT Pro.
Z.ai releases GLM-5
Open model under MIT with 744B total and 40B active parameters, using DeepSeek Sparse Attention.
MiniMax releases MiniMax M2.5
Open model for coding, agentic tool use, search and office work, scoring 80.2% on SWE-Bench Verified.
Google introduces Aletheia math research agent
A Gemini Deep Think agent that generates, verifies and revises solutions to research-level maths problems.
Meituan releases LongCat-Flash-Lite
Lightweight 68.5B MoE model, 2.9B to 4.5B active, with over 30B parameters in N-gram embeddings.
Aurora Alpha launches in stealth on OpenRouter
Cloaked reasoning model built for speed on OpenRouter, 128K context; its lab is not revealed.
Pony Alpha launches in stealth on OpenRouter
Cloaked coding and agentic model on OpenRouter; revealed as an early testing version of GLM-5.
OpenAI introduces Trusted Access for Cyber
A trust-based framework that expands access to frontier cyber capabilities with safeguards.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.3-Codex
A Codex-native agent model pairing frontier coding performance with general reasoning.
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.6
Upgrade to the smartest Claude model, leading on agentic coding, computer use, tool use, search and finance.
OpenAI Frontier
An enterprise platform for building, deploying and managing AI agents with permissions and governance.
Anthropic commits to keeping Claude ad-free
Anthropic commits that Claude will remain free of advertising.
Alibaba releases Qwen3-Coder-Next
Model for coding agents and local use, built on Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B; over 70% on SWE-Bench Verified.
Anthropic brings Claude Agent SDK to Xcode
Xcode 26.3 integrates the Claude Agent SDK for autonomous, long-running coding tasks on Apple platforms.
OpenAI launches Codex app for macOS
A desktop app for running multiple coding agents in parallel on long-running tasks.
Anthropic launches Cowork plugins
Plugins tell Cowork how work should be done, which tools and data to use, and which slash commands to expose.
OpenAI retires GPT-4o in ChatGPT
GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini and o4-mini leave ChatGPT on February 13, 2026.
Google launches Project Genie
Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. can create, explore and remix interactive worlds with Genie 3.
Moonshot AI launches Kimi Code
Coding product for Kimi K2.5 that works in the terminal and integrates with IDEs including VS Code, Cursor and Zed.
Mistral releases Mistral Vibe 2.0
Upgrade to its terminal coding agent with custom subagents and slash-command skills, now on Le Chat Pro and Team plans.
OpenAI launches Prism
A free LaTeX-native workspace with GPT-5.2 built in for writing and collaborating on research.
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2.5
Open visual agentic model trained on 15T tokens, with an agent swarm for parallel tasks.
Anthropic launches MCP Apps
Connectors can show an interactive live UI right inside a Claude conversation.
Alibaba launches Qwen3-Max-Thinking
Flagship reasoning model that calls search, memory and a code interpreter on its own; in Qwen Chat and API.
Anthropic publishes Claude's new constitution
Anthropic publishes a new constitution, the foundational document that expresses and shapes who Claude is.
Meituan releases LongCat-Flash-Thinking-2601
Open-weights upgrade of LongCat-Flash-Thinking, stronger at agentic search and agentic tool use.
OpenAI introduces age prediction in ChatGPT
ChatGPT estimates whether an account is under 18 and applies teen safeguards.
OpenAI makes ChatGPT Go available worldwide
The lower-cost Go plan, with GPT-5.2 Instant and higher limits, becomes available worldwide.
OpenAI plans advertising test in ChatGPT
OpenAI plans to test ads in the U.S. for ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers.
Google releases TranslateGemma
Open translation models built on Gemma 3 in 4B, 12B and 27B sizes, covering 55 languages.
Google launches Personal Intelligence in Gemini
Gemini connects to Gmail, Photos, YouTube and Search for personalized answers; beta for US Pro and Ultra.
Google releases MedGemma 1.5 and MedASR
Open MedGemma 1.5 4B adds CT, MRI and histopathology support; new open MedASR model transcribes medical speech.
Anthropic Labs
Anthropic expands Labs, a team incubating experimental products, with Mike Krieger joining Ben Mann.
Anthropic launches Claude Cowork research preview
Claude reads, edits and creates files in a folder you choose; a research preview for Max on macOS.
Anthropic launches Claude for Healthcare
HIPAA-ready Claude for healthcare, life sciences tools and connectors to CMS, Medidata and ClinicalTrials.gov.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health
A dedicated ChatGPT experience that connects users’ health data and apps, with privacy protections.
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MiniMax releases MiniMax M2.1
Open model update with stronger coding across languages such as Rust, Java, Go and C++, and in office tasks.
Google parent Alphabet agrees to acquire Intersect
Alphabet agrees to acquire Intersect, a data center and energy infrastructure provider, to add capacity faster.
Z.ai releases GLM-4.7
Open model focused on agentic coding, scoring 73.8% on SWE-bench and 41% on Terminal Bench 2.0.
Anthropic publishes SB 53 compliance framework
Anthropic publishes how it assesses and manages catastrophic risks under California's SB 53.
Google releases T5Gemma 2
Open encoder-decoder models based on Gemma 3, now multimodal with 128K context, in sizes up to 4B-4B.
Google releases FunctionGemma
Gemma 3 270M fine-tuned for function calling, a base for local agents that turn language into API actions.
Anthropic adds org-wide skills and open standard
Admins can provision skills org-wide, a partner skills directory launches, and skills become an open standard.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.2-Codex
Coding model with long-horizon reasoning, large-scale code changes and stronger cybersecurity skills.
Google launches Gemini 3 Flash
Fast, lower-cost Gemini 3 model that surpasses 2.5 Pro on many benchmarks, at under a quarter the cost of 3 Pro.
OpenAI opens app submissions and directory in ChatGPT
Developers can submit apps for review; approved apps appear in an in-product directory.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images and GPT-Image-1.5
A faster ChatGPT Images experience, with GPT-Image-1.5 available in the API.
NVIDIA releases Nemotron 3
Open hybrid mixture-of-experts (MoE) family; Nano (30B, 3B active) available now, Super and Ultra to follow.
Google launches Interactions API in public beta
A single endpoint for Gemini models and agents, in public beta, with Gemini Deep Research as its first agent.
OpenAI brings Disney characters to Sora
Agreement brings more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars characters to Sora videos.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.2
Frontier model for professional work, improving reasoning, long context, coding and vision, in ChatGPT and API.
Mistral releases Mistral Vibe CLI
Open-source command-line coding agent powered by Devstral, under Apache 2.0, released with Devstral 2.
OpenAI co-founds Agentic AI Foundation
OpenAI co-founds the foundation under the Linux Foundation and donates AGENTS.md.
Mistral releases Devstral 2
Open-weights 123B dense coding model for code agents, with a 256K context window, released with the 24B Devstral Small 2 and the Mistral Vibe CLI.
Anthropic donates MCP to Agentic AI Foundation
Anthropic donates MCP to the Linux Foundation's new Agentic AI Foundation, co-founded with Block and OpenAI.
Z.ai releases GLM-4.6V
Open multimodal models, 106B GLM-4.6V and 9B GLM-4.6V-Flash, with native function calling and 128K context.
Anthropic brings Claude Code to Slack
Tagging @Claude in Slack starts Claude Code sessions that fix bugs and open pull requests.
Anthropic acquires Bun
Anthropic buys the Bun JavaScript runtime for Claude Code, which reached $1B run-rate revenue in six months.
Mistral releases Mistral 3
Open Mistral Large 3, a 675B mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with 41B active, and Ministral 3 in 3B, 8B and 14B; Apache 2.0.
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V3.2
Open reasoning-first models built for agents, V3.2 and V3.2-Speciale.
Bert-Nebulon Alpha launches in stealth on OpenRouter
Cloaked multimodal 256K-context model on OpenRouter; revealed as an early Mistral Large 3.
Anthropic introduces advanced tool use
Claude can discover, learn and execute tools dynamically on the Claude Developer Platform.
OpenAI launches shopping research in ChatGPT
ChatGPT builds personalized buyer’s guides to help users compare and choose products.
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.5
New flagship model with state-of-the-art coding and agentic performance at lower pricing.
Sber releases GigaChat 3 Ultra Preview
Open mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with 702B total and about 36B active parameters, natively trained on Russian, under the MIT license.
Google launches Nano Banana Pro
Image generation and editing model built on Gemini 3 Pro, with legible multilingual text and up to 4K output.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.1-Codex-Max
An agentic coding model for Codex built for long-running, project-scale work.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teachers
A secure workspace free for verified U.S. K–12 educators through June 2028.
Google introduces Generative UI
Gemini builds custom interactive interfaces for any prompt, rolling out in the Gemini app and AI Mode in Search.
Google launches Gemini Agent
Experimental agent in the Gemini app completes multi-step tasks; US Google AI Ultra subscribers first.
Anthropic partners with Microsoft and NVIDIA
Anthropic commits $30B to Azure compute; Microsoft and NVIDIA invest up to $15B combined.
Google Antigravity
Agentic development platform where agents work across editor, terminal and browser; free public preview.
Google launches Gemini 3 Pro
Google's most intelligent model, in preview via the Gemini API and Vertex AI, with stronger agentic coding.
Google launches WeatherNext 2
AI weather model generating hundreds of forecast scenarios in under a minute, with data in Earth Engine.
Sherlock Think Alpha launches in stealth on OpenRouter
Cloaked 1.84M-context reasoning model on OpenRouter; revealed as an early Grok 4.1 Fast.
Sherlock Dash Alpha launches in stealth on OpenRouter
Non-reasoning sibling of Sherlock Think; revealed as Grok 4.1 Fast with reasoning disabled.
Anthropic launches structured outputs in beta
API responses are guaranteed to match JSON schemas and tool definitions; beta for Sonnet 4.5 and Opus 4.1.
Google launches SIMA 2
Gemini-powered agent that follows instructions, reasons about goals and self-improves in 3D game worlds.
Anthropic disrupts AI-led espionage campaign
Anthropic reports detecting and disrupting a sophisticated cyberattack campaign run largely by AI.
OpenAI launches group chats in ChatGPT
Several people can collaborate with ChatGPT in the same conversation.
OpenAI brings GPT-5.1 to the API
GPT-5.1 reaches the API with adaptive reasoning, extended prompt caching, and apply_patch and shell tools.
OpenAI launches GPT-5.1
Upgraded GPT-5 models in ChatGPT with new tone and style controls, rolling out to paid users.
Google introduces Private AI Compute
A cloud platform that runs Gemini models on Google's TPUs while keeping user data private, even from Google.
Polaris Alpha launches in stealth on OpenRouter
Cloaked 256K-context model on OpenRouter; revealed as an early GPT-5.1 snapshot.
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2 Thinking
Open-source thinking model that reasons step by step while using tools, with native INT4 inference.
Anthropic publishes model preservation commitments
Anthropic will preserve weights of all publicly released Claude models and interview models before retirement.
Meituan releases LongCat-Flash-Omni
Open-weights omni-modal model that understands text, images, video and speech, and speaks in real time.
OpenAI introduces Aardvark security researcher
An agent that finds, validates and helps fix software vulnerabilities, in private beta.
OpenAI releases gpt-oss-safeguard
Open-weight reasoning models that classify content against a developer-provided safety policy.
NVIDIA releases Nemotron Nano 2 VL
Open 12B vision-language model with a hybrid Mamba-Transformer design, for document intelligence and video.
New Microsoft–OpenAI agreement
Microsoft and OpenAI sign a new agreement for their long-term partnership.
OpenAI recapitalization
Recapitalization completed; the nonprofit, now the OpenAI Foundation, holds equity worth about $130B.
MiniMax releases MiniMax M2
Open agent-first model for coding, tool use and deep search, at 8% of Claude Sonnet's price and twice its speed.
Vibe coding in Google AI Studio
Describe an app in a prompt and AI Studio wires up the right Gemini models and APIs to build a working AI app.
Anthropic expands to up to one million Google TPUs
A compute expansion worth tens of billions of dollars, bringing over a gigawatt online in 2026.
OpenAI brings company knowledge to ChatGPT
ChatGPT answers from context in connected work apps, with citations, for Business, Enterprise and Edu.
Andromeda Alpha launches in stealth on OpenRouter
Cloaked small reasoning vision model on OpenRouter; revealed as NVIDIA Nemotron Nano 2 VL.
Moonshot AI releases Kimi CLI
First GitHub release (0.33) of Kimi CLI, Moonshot AI's command-line coding agent, later succeeded by Kimi Code.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Atlas
A web browser with ChatGPT built in.
Anthropic launches Claude for Life Sciences
Scientific connectors and skills for research, drug discovery and clinical work.
Anthropic launches Claude Code on the web
Delegate coding tasks from the browser to Claude running on Anthropic-managed cloud infrastructure.
Anthropic introduces Agent Skills
Claude loads folders of instructions, scripts and resources when relevant to a task.
Google launches Veo 3.1
Veo 3.1 adds richer audio, more narrative control and better realism, with audio across Flow features.
Google releases C2S-Scale 27B
A 27B Gemma-based single-cell model, built with Yale, predicted a cancer drug combination confirmed in lab tests.
Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 4.5
A small model with coding performance similar to Sonnet 4 at one-third the cost and over twice the speed.
Anthropic launches Claude Code plugins
Bundles of slash commands, agents, MCP servers and hooks install with one command.
Google launches Gemini Enterprise
A platform to chat with company data and apps, build AI agents, and use pre-built agents across the workplace.
Google launches Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model
A specialized model built on Gemini 2.5 Pro that powers agents interacting with user interfaces, in API preview.
Google introduces CodeMender
An AI agent that automatically patches software vulnerabilities, with 72 fixes upstreamed to open source.
OpenAI makes Codex generally available
Codex reaches general availability with a Slack integration, Codex SDK and admin tools.
OpenAI launches AgentKit
Developer tools for building agents, plus expanded evals and reinforcement fine-tuning for agents.
OpenAI launches apps in ChatGPT and Apps SDK
Users can chat with apps inside ChatGPT; developers build them with the new Apps SDK in preview.
Z.ai releases GLM-4.6
Open model update with a 200K-token context window, up from 128K, and stronger coding and reasoning.
OpenAI launches Sora 2
Video generation model with synchronized dialogue and sound effects.
Anthropic adds Claude Code checkpoints and VS Code
Claude Code gains checkpoints to roll back changes and a native VS Code extension.
Anthropic releases Claude Agent SDK
The building blocks behind Claude Code, released for developers to build their own agents.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT parental controls
Parents can guide how ChatGPT works for their teens, with a new parent resource page.
OpenAI launches Instant Checkout in ChatGPT
People can buy directly inside ChatGPT; OpenAI introduces the Agentic Commerce Protocol.
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp
Experimental open model with DeepSeek Sparse Attention; API prices cut by more than half.
Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 4.5
Leads on coding, agent building and computer use, and is the most aligned Claude model to date.
Google launches Gemini Robotics 1.5 and ER 1.5
Two robotics models that think before acting and call tools; ER 1.5 is available in the Gemini API.
OpenAI previews ChatGPT Pulse
Preview for Pro users on mobile: ChatGPT proactively researches and delivers personalized updates.
Alibaba launches Qwen3-Max
Model with over 1 trillion parameters, pretrained on 36 trillion tokens, in the API and Qwen Chat.
Alibaba releases Qwen3-VL
Vision-language flagship with 235B parameters, 22B active, in Instruct and Thinking versions.
Meituan releases LongCat-Flash-Thinking
Open-weights reasoning model for logic, math, code and agent tasks.
Alibaba releases Qwen3-Omni
Omni model that takes text, images, audio and video and answers in text and speech, with an audio captioner.
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V3.1-Terminus
Update to V3.1 with fewer Chinese-English mix-ups and stronger code and search agents.
Google publishes Frontier Safety Framework v3
Third version adds a harmful manipulation risk level and expands misalignment protocols and risk assessment.
OpenAI announces 10 GW NVIDIA partnership
OpenAI and NVIDIA plan 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA-powered datacenters, first phase in 2026.
Google's Gemini Deep Think reaches ICPC gold
An advanced Gemini 2.5 Deep Think reached gold-medal level at the ICPC World Finals.
OpenAI upgrades Codex
GPT-5-Codex, a version of GPT-5 optimized for agentic coding, available everywhere Codex runs.
Google releases VaultGemma
A 1B open model trained from scratch with differential privacy, with weights on Hugging Face and Kaggle.
Alibaba releases Qwen3-Next
80B model with 3B active on a new hybrid-attention architecture, in Instruct and Thinking versions.
Anthropic launches Memory in Claude
Claude remembers users' and teams' projects and preferences across conversations.
OpenAI plans nonprofit equity stake in the PBC
Planned structure gives the OpenAI nonprofit control of the PBC and an equity stake worth over $100B.
Anthropic lets Claude create and edit files
Claude returns spreadsheets, documents, presentations and PDFs instead of only text.
Sonoma Sky Alpha launches in stealth on OpenRouter
Cloaked 2M-context model on OpenRouter; revealed as an early test version of Grok 4 Fast.
Sonoma Dusk Alpha launches in stealth on OpenRouter
Faster sibling of Sonoma Sky, 2M context; revealed as an early test version of Grok 4 Fast.
Anthropic raises Series F at $183B valuation
Anthropic raises $13 billion at a $183 billion post-money valuation.
Meituan releases LongCat-Flash-Chat
Open-weights 560B-parameter MoE model activating 18.6B to 31.3B (27B on average) per token.
Anthropic adds opt-in training on consumer chats
Free, Pro and Max users can opt in to model training, with five-year retention for participants.
OpenAI launches gpt-realtime
A more advanced speech-to-speech model; the Realtime API adds MCP servers, image input and SIP calls.
OpenAI publishes joint safety evaluation with Anthropic
OpenAI and Anthropic test each other's models for misalignment, hallucinations and jailbreaks.
Google launches Nano Banana
A new image editing model in the Gemini app keeps people's and pets' likeness consistent across edits.
Anthropic pilots Claude in Chrome
A pilot of a browser extension in which Claude acts in Chrome, testing prompt injection defenses.
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V3.1
Hybrid model with thinking and non-thinking modes in one, faster thinking and stronger agent skills.
Anthropic brings Claude Code to Team and Enterprise
Team and Enterprise customers can buy premium seats that include Claude Code.
NVIDIA releases Nemotron Nano 2
Open 9B hybrid Mamba-Transformer reasoning model with 128K context, released with a 6.6T-token pretraining dataset.
Anthropic lets Claude end abusive conversations
Opus 4 and 4.1 can end a rare subset of conversations, from model welfare research.
Google releases Gemma 3 270M
Compact 270M-parameter open model for task-specific fine-tuning, released pretrained and instruction-tuned.
Google gives Gemini memory of past chats
Gemini can learn from past chats to personalize replies, and Temporary Chats are not saved or used for personalization.
Anthropic brings 1M-token context to Sonnet 4
Claude Sonnet 4 accepts up to 1 million tokens of context, a 5x increase.
OpenAI launches GPT-5
OpenAI's new flagship model, with leading performance across coding, math, writing and health.
Google makes Jules generally available
Jules leaves beta, powered by Gemini 2.5, with higher limits for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers.
Google launches Guided Learning in Gemini
Gemini adds Guided Learning, a mode that breaks down problems step by step, plus integrated visuals and flashcards.
Google launches Genie 3
A world model that generates interactive environments from text, navigable in real time at 24 fps and 720p.
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.1
An upgrade to Opus 4 on agentic tasks, real-world coding and reasoning, at the same price.
OpenAI releases gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b
Two open-weight language models under Apache 2.0, optimized for deployment on consumer hardware.
Horizon Beta launches in stealth on OpenRouter
Improved version of Horizon Alpha on OpenRouter, 256K context; revealed as an earlier GPT-5.
Google brings Deep Think to the Gemini app
Google AI Ultra subscribers can toggle Deep Think, which uses parallel thinking, in the Gemini app.
Horizon Alpha launches in stealth on OpenRouter
Cloaked 256K-context model on OpenRouter with image input; revealed as an earlier iteration of GPT-5.
Mistral launches Codestral 25.08
Code-completion update with 30% more accepted completions, shipped in Mistral's enterprise coding stack.
Google launches AlphaEarth Foundations
Earth observation model producing embeddings of land and coastal waters, released as an Earth Engine dataset.
NVIDIA releases Llama Nemotron Super v1.5
Open 49B reasoning model that fits on a single H100 GPU, with gains in math, science, coding and tool calling.
Google adds Video Overviews to NotebookLM
NotebookLM can turn documents into narrated slide videos, rolling out to all users in English.
OpenAI launches study mode in ChatGPT
ChatGPT guides students through problems step by step with questions, scaffolding and feedback.
Z.ai releases GLM-4.5 and GLM-4.5-Air
Open hybrid reasoning models: GLM-4.5 (355B total, 32B active) and GLM-4.5-Air (106B, 12B active).
Alibaba releases Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507
Updated 235B thinking model with 256K context, after an Instruct-2507 non-thinking update earlier that week.
Alibaba releases Qwen3-Coder
480B mixture-of-experts (MoE) coding model with 35B active, released with the Qwen Code command-line tool.
Alibaba releases Qwen Code
Open-source command-line tool for agentic coding, released alongside the Qwen3-Coder model.
Google's Gemini Deep Think earns IMO gold
An advanced Gemini Deep Think solved five of six IMO problems in natural language, scoring 35 of 42 points.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT agent
ChatGPT can think and act with tools to complete tasks like research, bookings and slideshows.
Mistral releases Voxtral
Open speech understanding models in 24B and 3B sizes under Apache 2.0, also available on the API.
Anthropic launches Claude for Financial Services
A Claude solution for financial analysis, market research and investment decisions.
Anthropic launches Connectors directory
A directory of tools that connect to Claude, each tried with one click.
Moonshot AI releases Kimi K2
Open mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with 1T total and 32B active parameters, built for agentic tasks.
Mistral releases Devstral Small 1.1
Open 24B coding agent model under Apache 2.0, scoring 53.6% on SWE-Bench Verified; Devstral Medium is API-only.
Google releases T5Gemma
Open encoder-decoder models adapted from Gemma 2 2B and 9B, plus new T5-sized Small to XL models.
Google releases MedGemma 27B Multimodal and MedSigLIP
Open health models: MedGemma 27B Multimodal adds EHR interpretation; MedSigLIP encodes medical images.
Cypher Alpha launches in stealth on OpenRouter
Cloaked 1M-context model on OpenRouter with native tool calling; its lab is not revealed.
Google releases Gemma 3n
Mobile-first open models, E2B and E4B, taking image, audio, video and text input, now fully released.
Google launches AlphaGenome
A DNA sequence model that predicts how variants affect gene regulation, in preview via API for research.
Anthropic launches AI-powered artifacts
Artifacts can embed Claude, turning them into shareable interactive apps, with a dedicated space.
Google releases Gemini CLI
Open-source AI agent bringing Gemini into the terminal, free with a Google account and 1,000 requests a day.
Google launches Gemini Robotics On-Device
A VLA model that runs locally on robots, adapts to new tasks with 50 to 100 demonstrations, via trusted testers.
Google launches Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and makes 2.5 GA
Gemini 2.5 Flash and Pro become stable and generally available, and 2.5 Flash-Lite launches in preview.
OpenAI for Government
An initiative bringing OpenAI's most advanced tools to public servants across the United States.
MiniMax releases MiniMax-M1
Open hybrid-attention reasoning model with a 1M-token context window, trained with the CISPO RL algorithm.
Google launches Weather Lab in public preview
Public preview of a website sharing Google's AI weather models and experimental cyclone predictions.
Mistral releases Magistral
Mistral's first reasoning model: open 24B Magistral Small under Apache 2.0, plus Magistral Medium for enterprise.
Anthropic launches Claude Gov models
Custom models built for U.S. national security customers in classified environments.
Mistral launches Mistral Code
AI coding assistant for enterprises, built on the open-source Continue project, in private beta for JetBrains IDEs and VS Code.
Google previews Gemini 2.5 native audio dialog and TTS
Gemini 2.5 gets real-time native audio dialog and controllable text-to-speech, in preview for developers.
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-R1-0528
Update to DeepSeek-R1 with better benchmark scores, fewer hallucinations, and JSON output and function calling.
Anthropic makes Claude Code generally available
Claude Code leaves research preview, adding background tasks via GitHub Actions and beta VS Code and JetBrains extensions.
Anthropic adds agent building blocks to the API
The API adds code execution, an MCP connector, file storage and extended prompt caching.
Anthropic launches Claude 4 (Opus 4 and Sonnet 4)
Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 can use tools during extended thinking; Opus 4 is aimed at long agent tasks.
Anthropic activates ASL-3 protections
ASL-3 security and deployment standards apply with Claude Opus 4, targeting CBRN weapons misuse.
Mistral releases Devstral
Open agentic coding model under Apache 2.0, built with All Hands AI, scoring 46.8% on SWE-Bench Verified.
OpenAI adds remote MCP to the Responses API
The Responses API supports all remote MCP servers and adds image generation and Code Interpreter tools.
Google introduces SynthID Detector
A portal that scans images, audio, video and text for SynthID watermarks, rolling out to early testers.
Google launches Gemini Diffusion
Experimental text diffusion model, faster than Google's fastest model while matching its coding performance.
Google launches Flow
Flow, built for Veo, Imagen and Gemini, launches for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the U.S.
Google launches Veo 3 and Imagen 4
Veo 3 generates video with audio for the first time; Imagen 4 adds 2k resolution and better typography.
Google opens Jules in public beta
Jules, an asynchronous coding agent, opens to everyone in public beta, free with usage limits.
Google introduces Deep Think for Gemini 2.5 Pro
Deep Think, an enhanced reasoning mode for 2.5 Pro, goes to trusted testers; 2.5 Flash is updated.
Google launches AI Mode in Search
An end-to-end AI search experience, as a new tab in Search, comes to everyone in the U.S.
Google launches NotebookLM mobile app
NotebookLM launches on iOS and Android, with offline Audio Overviews and sharing sources from any app.
OpenAI launches Codex
A cloud-based coding agent powered by codex-1, a version of o3 optimized for software engineering.
Google launches AlphaEvolve
A Gemini-powered evolutionary coding agent that discovers and optimizes algorithms for math and computing.
Anthropic brings web search to the API
Developers can give Claude web search with citations through the API.
OpenAI for Countries
An initiative to support countries that want to build on democratic AI rails.
Mistral launches Mistral Medium 3
Model for enterprise use priced at $0.4/$2 per million tokens, via API or self-deployed on four GPUs.
OpenAI plans to turn its for-profit into a PBC
OpenAI plans to turn its for-profit LLC into a PBC, with the nonprofit keeping control.
Anthropic launches Integrations with remote MCP in Claude
Claude connects to apps and tools via Integrations; Research also searches connected services.
OpenAI rolls back GPT-4o sycophancy update
OpenAI reverts a GPT-4o update in ChatGPT that made it overly flattering and agreeable.
Alibaba releases Qwen3
Six dense and two mixture-of-experts (MoE) models from 0.6B to 235B parameters, under Apache 2.0.
OpenAI brings gpt-image-1 to the API
OpenAI's latest image generation model becomes available to developers in the API as gpt-image-1.
Google launches Gemini 2.5 Flash
Preview of a hybrid reasoning model with thinking that can be switched on or off, in the Gemini API and the Gemini app.
OpenAI launches o3 and o4-mini
OpenAI's smartest and most capable models at release, with full tool access.
OpenAI releases Codex CLI
A lightweight, open-source coding agent that runs from the terminal on your own computer.
Anthropic launches Research in Claude
Claude runs in-depth research across the web and Google Workspace and answers in minutes.
OpenAI updates its Preparedness Framework
Revised framework for measuring and protecting against severe harm from frontier AI capabilities.
OpenAI launches GPT-4.1
New API model family with gains in coding, instruction following and long context, plus a first nano model.
Optimus Alpha launches in stealth on OpenRouter
Second cloaked 1M-context model on OpenRouter; revealed as another test of GPT-4.1.
Google introduces Ironwood TPU
Seventh-generation TPU, the first built for inference, scales to 9,216 chips and 42.5 Exaflops per pod.
Anthropic launches Claude Max plan
A plan with up to 20 times higher usage limits and priority access to new features.
Google rolls out Gemini Live camera and screen sharing
Gemini Live video and screen sharing rolls out on Android, starting with Pixel 9 and Samsung Galaxy S25 users.
Quasar Alpha launches in stealth on OpenRouter
Cloaked 1M-context model on OpenRouter, free to test; revealed as an early test of GPT-4.1.
Anthropic launches Claude for Education
A version of Claude for universities, with a Learning mode that guides students' reasoning.
OpenAI raises $40B at $300B valuation
OpenAI raises $40B at a $300B post-money valuation to scale research and compute.
Alibaba launches QVQ-Max
Visual reasoning model that analyzes and reasons over images and video, in Qwen Chat.
Alibaba releases Qwen2.5-Omni
7B end-to-end model that takes text, images, audio and video and answers in text and streaming speech.
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V3-0324
Update to DeepSeek-V3 with stronger reasoning, front-end development and tool use, now under the MIT License.
Google releases TxGemma
Open models in 2B, 9B and 27B sizes, fine-tuned from Gemma 2 to predict properties of therapeutics.
Google launches Gemini 2.5 Pro
The first Gemini 2.5 model, a thinking model that debuts at #1 on LMArena, with a 1 million token context.
OpenAI launches 4o image generation
GPT-4o generates images natively, with stronger text rendering and instruction following.
Anthropic adds web search to Claude
Claude can search the web for cited, up-to-date answers, in preview for paid US users.
OpenAI launches next-generation audio models in the API
New speech-to-text and text-to-speech models in the API; developers can instruct how the voice speaks.
Google launches Canvas in Gemini
Gemini gets Canvas for editing documents and code in real time, and Audio Overview for podcast-style discussions.
NVIDIA releases Llama Nemotron
Open reasoning model family built on Llama models; Nano and Super available now, with Ultra to follow.
Mistral releases Mistral Small 3.1
Open model under Apache 2.0 that adds image understanding and a context window of up to 128k tokens.
Gemini replaces Google Assistant on mobile
Google starts upgrading mobile users from Google Assistant to Gemini.
Google releases Gemma 3
Open models in 1B, 4B, 12B and 27B sizes with vision, a 128k-token context window and function calling.
Google launches Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robotics-ER
Two Gemini 2.0-based models: a vision-language-action model that controls robots and a spatial-reasoning model.
OpenAI launches Responses API and Agents SDK
OpenAI releases new developer tools for building agents on its platform.
Alibaba releases QwQ-32B
32B reasoning model trained with reinforcement learning, under Apache 2.0; comparable to DeepSeek-R1.
Anthropic raises Series E at $61.5B valuation
Anthropic raises $3.5 billion at a $61.5 billion post-money valuation.
OpenAI launches GPT-4.5
Research preview of GPT-4.5, OpenAI's largest and best model for chat at release.
Alibaba releases QwQ-Max-Preview
Preview reasoning model built on Qwen2.5-Max for math, coding and agent tasks, in Qwen Chat.
Anthropic launches Claude 3.7 Sonnet
First hybrid reasoning model: near-instant answers or visible extended thinking.
Anthropic launches Claude Code
A command-line agentic coding tool, in limited research preview, delegating work from the terminal.
Google introduces AI co-scientist
A multi-agent system built on Gemini 2.0 that helps scientists generate novel hypotheses and research proposals.
Mistral launches Mistral Saba
24B model for Arabic and South Asian languages, via API or deployed on premises.
Google launches Gemini 2.0 Flash, Flash-Lite and Pro
2.0 Flash is generally available, with 2.0 Pro Experimental (2 million tokens) and Flash-Lite in preview.
Google updates Frontier Safety Framework
Adds security levels for Critical Capability Levels, a deployment mitigation procedure and deceptive alignment.
Google updates its AI Principles
Google rewrites its 2018 AI Principles around three tenets: bold innovation, responsibility and collaboration.
OpenAI launches deep research
An agent that synthesizes online information to complete multi-step research tasks.
OpenAI launches o3-mini
A new small model in the reasoning line.
Mistral releases Mistral Small 3
Open 24B model under Apache 2.0, built for low latency and local deployment, with base and instruct checkpoints.
Alibaba launches Qwen2.5-Max
Large mixture-of-experts (MoE) model pretrained on over 20 trillion tokens, in the API and Qwen Chat.
Alibaba releases Qwen2.5-1M
Open 7B and 14B models with 1M-token context windows, plus an open-sourced inference framework.
Alibaba releases Qwen2.5-VL
Vision-language models in 3B, 7B and 72B sizes that read documents and charts and act as visual agents.
OpenAI launches Operator
Research preview of an agent that uses its own browser to do tasks, for Pro users in the U.S.
OpenAI announces Stargate Project
OpenAI and partners announce the Stargate Project to build AI infrastructure.
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-R1
Open reasoning model on par with OpenAI o1, with code and weights under the MIT License.
MiniMax releases the MiniMax-01 series
Open models MiniMax-Text-01 and MiniMax-VL-01: 456B parameters, 45.9B active, with up to 4M tokens of context.
Mistral launches Codestral 25.01
Coding model with a more efficient architecture and tokenizer, completing code about 2x faster.
2024
OpenAI plans to evolve its corporate structure
OpenAI proposes a stronger non-profit supported by the for-profit’s success.
DeepSeek releases DeepSeek-V3
Open-weights mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with 671B parameters, 37B active, trained on 14.8T tokens.
Google releases an experimental thinking Gemini 2.0
Google introduces an experimental "thinking" version of Gemini 2.0 for developers, alongside gemini-exp-1206.
OpenAI launches o1 for developers
o1 comes to developers alongside Realtime API improvements and a new fine-tuning method.
Google launches Veo 2
New video model with up to 4K resolution and improved physics and cinematography, available in VideoFX.
Google launches NotebookLM Plus
A premium NotebookLM plan with five times more Audio Overviews, notebooks and sources, and shared notebooks.
Google introduces Project Mariner
A research prototype agent that completes tasks in your browser via an experimental Chrome extension.
Google introduces Jules coding agent
An experimental code agent in a GitHub workflow that tackles an issue, develops a plan and executes it.
Google launches Gemini 2.0 Flash
First Gemini 2.0 model, with native image and audio output and tool use; beats 1.5 Pro at twice the speed.
Google launches Deep Research
Gemini Advanced subscribers get Deep Research, which plans multi-step web research and writes a report with source links.
OpenAI makes Sora available
Sora opens at sora.com, generating videos up to 1080p and 20 seconds long.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pro
A $200 monthly plan with unlimited access to o1 and o1 pro mode, which uses more compute.
Google releases GenCast
AI ensemble weather model beats ECMWF's ENS up to 15 days ahead; code and weights are released openly.
Google launches Genie 2
A foundation world model that generates playable 3D environments from one prompt image, to train agents.
Anthropic adds custom styles to Claude
Claude.ai users can pick a Formal, Concise or Explanatory style, or have Claude generate a custom style from their own writing samples.
Anthropic introduces Model Context Protocol (MCP)
An open standard for connecting AI assistants to the systems where data and tools live.
Amazon invests $4B more in Anthropic
Amazon invests a further $4 billion and AWS becomes the primary cloud and training partner.
Google introduces AlphaQubit quantum error decoder
DeepMind's AI decoder identifies quantum computing errors more accurately than leading decoders.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT search
ChatGPT gives fast, timely answers with links to relevant web sources.
Anthropic launches analysis tool in Claude.ai
Claude can write and run JavaScript in Claude.ai for data analysis.
Anthropic upgrades Claude 3.5 Sonnet, adds 3.5 Haiku
A refreshed, more capable Claude 3.5 Sonnet and a new Claude 3.5 Haiku model.
Anthropic introduces computer use
An experimental capability lets Claude 3.5 Sonnet operate a computer through the API.
Anthropic updates Responsible Scaling Policy
A significant revision of the risk governance framework for catastrophic risks from frontier AI.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry for Google's AlphaFold
Demis Hassabis and John Jumper are co-awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing AlphaFold.
OpenAI launches Canvas in ChatGPT
A new interface for writing and coding with ChatGPT.
OpenAI raises $6.6B at $157B valuation
OpenAI raises $6.6B at a $157B post-money valuation.
OpenAI launches Realtime API
Developers can build fast speech-to-speech experiences into their applications.
Google releases AlphaChip
DeepMind names its chip-layout method AlphaChip and releases a pre-trained checkpoint with model weights.
Google releases DataGemma
Open models built on Gemma 2 that ground answers in Google's Data Commons statistics to reduce hallucination.
OpenAI launches o1-mini
A cost-efficient reasoning model alongside o1.
OpenAI launches o1
A reasoning model that thinks through a long chain of thought before answering, released in preview.
Google launches NotebookLM Audio Overviews
NotebookLM turns your sources into a downloadable audio discussion between two AI hosts with one click.
Anthropic launches Claude for Enterprise
An Enterprise plan for organizations to work securely with Claude using internal knowledge.
Google launches AlphaProteo
DeepMind's first AI system for designing novel, high-strength protein binders for biology and health research.
Google launches Gems in Gemini
Gemini Advanced, Business and Enterprise users can create custom Gems, personal AI experts with saved instructions.
Anthropic makes Artifacts generally available
Artifacts reach all Claude.ai users on the Free, Pro and Team plans, and the iOS and Android apps.
Google launches Gemini Live
Free-flowing, hands-free voice conversations with Gemini, for Gemini Advanced subscribers on Android.
OpenAI adds Structured Outputs to the API
API model outputs now reliably adhere to developer-supplied JSON Schemas.
OpenAI launches SearchGPT prototype
A temporary prototype of AI search giving timely answers with clear sources.
Google's AlphaProof reaches IMO silver-medal level
AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2 solved four of six IMO 2024 problems, scoring 28 of 42, silver-medal level.
OpenAI launches GPT-4o mini
A smaller, cost-efficient model in the GPT-4o family.
Anthropic launches Claude Android app
Claude, including Claude 3.5 Sonnet, is available as an Android app.
Google releases Gemma 2
Open models in 9B and 27B sizes, with the 27B competitive with models more than twice its size.
Anthropic launches Projects in Claude
Pro and Team users can group chats with shared internal knowledge into Projects.
Anthropic launches Artifacts in Claude
Claude can show generated code, documents and designs in a dedicated window beside the chat.
Anthropic launches Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Outperforms Claude 3 Opus on key evaluations at twice the speed.
OpenAI and Apple partnership
ChatGPT is to be integrated into Apple experiences.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Edu
An affordable ChatGPT offering for universities to bring AI to campus.
Anthropic makes tool use generally available
Claude 3 models can call external tools and APIs, now generally available on the Messages API.
OpenAI board forms Safety and Security Committee
The OpenAI board forms a Safety and Security Committee.
Google publishes Frontier Safety Framework
Protocols to identify future AI capabilities that could cause severe harm, and mitigations against them.
Google expands SynthID to text and video watermarking
SynthID now watermarks text in the Gemini app and web experience, and all videos generated by Veo on VideoFX.
Google launches Imagen 3
Google's highest-quality text-to-image model, with better detail and text rendering; preview in ImageFX.
Google launches Gemini 1.5 Flash
A lighter, faster model with a 1 million token context window; 1.5 Pro's window grows to 2 million.
OpenAI names Pachocki chief scientist, Sutskever leaves
Ilya Sutskever leaves OpenAI; Jakub Pachocki becomes Chief Scientist.
Google rolls out AI Overviews in Search
AI Overviews in Search roll out to everyone in the U.S., with more countries coming soon.
Google launches Veo
Google's most capable video model makes 1080p videos over a minute long; private preview in VideoFX.
Google previews Project Astra
Google previews prototype universal AI assistant agents that see, hear and converse with low lag.
OpenAI launches GPT-4o
New flagship model that reasons across audio, vision and text in real time.
OpenAI publishes Model Spec
OpenAI publishes the Model Spec describing how its models should behave.
Google launches AlphaFold 3
Predicts structures and interactions of proteins, DNA, RNA and ligands; free via the new AlphaFold Server.
Anthropic launches Claude Team plan and iOS app
A Team plan adds shared workspaces with more usage, and a free Claude iOS app launches.
OpenAI makes GPT-4 API generally available
GPT-4 API becomes generally available, with GPT-3.5 Turbo, DALL·E and Whisper APIs also generally available.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT and Whisper APIs
ChatGPT and Whisper become available to developers through the API.
Snowflake releases Snowflake Arctic
Open mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with 480B total and 17B active parameters, built for enterprise tasks such as SQL and coding, under Apache 2.0.
OpenAI opens ChatGPT without sign-up
People can use ChatGPT instantly without creating an account.
xAI releases Grok-1
Open release of the base model weights and architecture of a 314B-parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) model, under the Apache 2.0 license.
Google introduces SIMA generalist game-playing agent
DeepMind's SIMA follows natural-language instructions across nine 3D video games using only screen images.
Anthropic releases Claude 3 Haiku
The fastest, most affordable model in its intelligence class, in the API and for Claude Pro users.
OpenAI completes board review, Altman stays
Review completes; Altman and Brockman continue to lead, with new board members and governance changes.
Anthropic launches the Claude 3 family
Haiku, Sonnet and Opus models, in ascending order of capability, set new benchmarks at launch.
Google releases Gemma
Open-weights Gemma 2B and 7B models, built from Gemini research, with a Responsible Generative AI Toolkit.
OpenAI announces Sora
A text-conditional diffusion model trained jointly on videos and images to generate video.
Google launches Gemini 1.5
Gemini 1.5 Pro, a mixture-of-experts (MoE) model, matches 1.0 Ultra with less compute and offers up to 1M tokens.
OpenAI tests memory in ChatGPT
ChatGPT begins testing remembering things across chats, with user controls over what it keeps.
Google renames Bard to Gemini, launches Gemini Advanced
Bard is renamed Gemini, and Ultra 1.0 is available in Gemini Advanced via the new Google One AI Premium plan.
Google launches Imagen 2
Google's upgraded text-to-image model rolls out in Bard, ImageFX, Search and Vertex AI, with SynthID.
Google launches AlphaGeometry
DeepMind's neuro-symbolic system solved 25 of 30 Olympiad geometry problems; code and model open-sourced.
OpenAI launches GPT Store
A store for finding and using custom GPTs in ChatGPT.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Team
A ChatGPT plan for teams of all sizes with a secure, collaborative workspace.
2023
Google introduces FunSearch
Pairing an LLM with an evaluator, Google DeepMind's FunSearch found new solutions to open math problems.
Google brings Gemini Pro to the Gemini API
Gemini Pro is available to developers via the Gemini API and Google AI Studio, and on Vertex AI.
Mistral releases Mixtral 8x7B
Sparse mixture-of-experts (MoE) model with open weights under Apache 2.0; beats Llama 2 70B on most benchmarks.
Google makes NotebookLM available in the U.S.
NotebookLM opens to U.S. users 18 and up, with a noteboard space, suggested actions and Gemini Pro.
Google brings Gemini Pro to Bard
Bard now uses a tuned Gemini Pro in English in 170+ countries.
Google launches Gemini 1.0 (Ultra, Pro and Nano)
Google's first natively multimodal models, in three sizes; Ultra leads on 30 of 32 benchmarks at launch.
Google launches GNoME for materials discovery
A deep learning tool predicted 2.2 million new crystals; 380,000 stable ones are released to researchers.
OpenAI brings back Altman as CEO with new initial board
Sam Altman returns as CEO with a new initial board; Mira Murati is CTO and Greg Brockman returns as President.
Anthropic launches Claude 2.1
Adds a 200K token context window, 2x fewer false statements than Claude 2.0, system prompts and beta tool use.
OpenAI board removes Altman as CEO
Sam Altman departs as CEO after a board review; Mira Murati becomes interim CEO.
Google launches Lyria
Google DeepMind's music generation model, tested in YouTube Shorts via Dream Track and in Music AI tools.
Google launches GraphCast
Google DeepMind's weather model gives 10-day forecasts in under a minute, beating HRES on 90%+ of variables.
OpenAI launches Assistants API
An API for developers to build their own assistive AI apps that have goals and can call models and tools.
OpenAI launches GPTs
Create custom versions of ChatGPT that combine instructions, extra knowledge, and any combination of skills.
OpenAI launches GPT-4 Turbo
GPT-4 Turbo offers a 128K context window and lower prices, with a Vision version.
OpenAI builds Preparedness team
OpenAI builds a Preparedness team and an approach to catastrophic risk, and launches a challenge.
OpenAI brings DALL·E 3 to ChatGPT
DALL·E 3 is now available in ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise, with a safety mitigation stack for the wider release.
Amazon invests up to $4B in Anthropic
Amazon takes a minority stake and AWS becomes the primary cloud provider, training on Trainium and Inferentia.
OpenAI's ChatGPT can see, hear and speak
ChatGPT can now see, hear and speak.
Google launches Bard Extensions
Bard can pull information from Gmail, Docs, Drive, Maps, YouTube and Flights in one conversation.
Google launches AlphaMissense
Google DeepMind classifies the effects of 71 million missense mutations to help pinpoint causes of disease.
Anthropic announces Long-Term Benefit Trust
An independent five-member Trust with authority to elect and remove Anthropic board members.
Anthropic publishes Responsible Scaling Policy
A board-approved framework of AI Safety Levels (ASL) for managing catastrophic risks.
Anthropic launches Claude Pro
A $20-a-month claude.ai plan with 5x more usage, priority access at peak times and early features.
Google launches SynthID in beta
A beta tool that watermarks and identifies AI-generated images, for some Vertex AI customers using Imagen.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Enterprise
A new ChatGPT plan with enterprise-grade security and privacy and the most powerful version of ChatGPT yet.
OpenAI acquires Global Illumination
The entire Global Illumination team has joined OpenAI.
Anthropic launches Claude Instant 1.2
A faster, lower-priced model with gains in math, coding, reasoning and safety, available through the API.
Google launches RT-2
A vision-language-action model that learns from web and robot data and turns instructions into robot actions.
OpenAI helps form Frontier Model Forum
OpenAI helps form an industry body to promote safe and responsible development of frontier AI systems.
OpenAI makes voluntary AI safety commitments
OpenAI and other leading labs reinforce AI safety, security and trustworthiness through voluntary commitments.
OpenAI adds custom instructions to ChatGPT
Users set preferences that ChatGPT keeps in mind for all future conversations, with more control over responses.
Google lets Bard take images in prompts
Bard users can upload images with their prompts, and Bard will analyze the photo, using Google Lens capabilities.
Google launches NotebookLM
Google Labs rolls out an experimental AI notebook, grounded in your own sources, to a small group in the U.S.
Anthropic launches Claude 2
New model with a 100K token context window, available via API and the claude.ai beta in the US and UK.
OpenAI starts Superalignment team
OpenAI starts a team co-led by Ilya Sutskever and Jan Leike, dedicating 20% of its secured compute to alignment.
OpenAI adds function calling to the API
API models gain function calling, are more steerable, support longer context, and come at lower prices.
Google releases Secure AI Framework (SAIF)
Google releases a conceptual framework with six core elements for securing AI systems across industry.
Google's AlphaDev finds faster sorting algorithms
Google DeepMind's AlphaDev used reinforcement learning to find sorting algorithms now in LLVM's libc++.
Anthropic raises $450M Series C
$450 million Series C led by Spark Capital, with Google and Salesforce Ventures taking part.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT app for iOS
The ChatGPT app syncs your conversations and supports voice input on iPhone.
Anthropic expands Claude to a 100K context window
Claude's context window grows from 9K to 100K tokens, about 75,000 words, now available in the API.
SGE in Google Labs
SGE, the Search Generative Experience, brings generative AI overviews to Google Search as an experiment in Search Labs.
Google launches PaLM 2
Language model with stronger multilingual, reasoning and coding skills, in four sizes, powering 25+ products.
Anthropic publishes Claude's constitution
Anthropic publishes the principles it uses to train Claude with Constitutional AI.
Google DeepMind formed
Google merges DeepMind and the Brain team from Google Research into one unit, led by Demis Hassabis.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT plugins
ChatGPT gets initial plugin support to access up-to-date information, run computations, or use third-party services.
Google opens Bard to early users
Google starts opening Bard, an early generative AI experiment, to sign-ups in the U.S. and U.K.
Google previews PaLM API and MakerSuite
Select developers get preview access to the PaLM API and MakerSuite, a tool to prototype generative AI apps.
Anthropic launches Claude and Claude Instant
Anthropic offers Claude and the lighter, faster Claude Instant through a chat interface and API.
OpenAI launches GPT-4
Multimodal model accepting image and text inputs and emitting text, with human-level performance on various benchmarks.
Google announces Bard
Google opens Bard, a conversational AI service powered by LaMDA, to trusted testers ahead of a public release.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Plus
A pilot subscription plan for ChatGPT is launched.
OpenAI extends its Microsoft partnership
OpenAI and Microsoft extend their partnership.
2022
Google launches RT-1 Robotics Transformer
Google Research's multi-task robot model, trained on 130k episodes over 700+ tasks; its code is open source.
Google launches AlphaCode
DeepMind's AlphaCode, now published in Science, writes programs at a competitive level in coding contests.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT
A conversational model that answers followup questions, admits mistakes, and rejects inappropriate requests.
OpenAI releases Whisper
An open-sourced speech recognition model approaching human-level robustness and accuracy on English.
OpenAI makes DALL·E available in beta
DALL·E opens to 1 million people from the waitlist, with free monthly credits and paid credit packs.
Google introduces Gato, a generalist agent
DeepMind's Gato uses one network to play Atari, caption images, chat and stack blocks with a robot arm.
Google introduces chain-of-thought prompting
Prompting models to write intermediate reasoning steps lets ~100B-parameter models solve multi-step problems.
Google's Chinchilla: compute-optimal scaling
Chinchilla, 70B parameters trained on 1.3T tokens, outperforms the 280B Gopher at the same training compute.
Anthropic uses RLHF for a helpful, harmless assistant
Preference modeling and RLHF finetune language models into helpful and harmless assistants.
Google launches PaLM
Google's 540B-parameter model, trained with Pathways on 6,144 TPU chips, sets few-shot records.
OpenAI launches InstructGPT
Models trained with humans in the loop follow instructions better than GPT-3; now the API default.
2021
OpenAI introduces WebGPT
GPT-3 fine-tuned to answer open-ended questions more accurately using a text-based web browser.
Google launches GLaM
Google Brain's trillion-weight sparse mixture-of-experts (MoE) model; competitive with GPT-3, more efficiently.
Anthropic's HHH: helpful, honest, harmless assistant
Anthropic studies aligning a general language assistant; ranked preference modeling beats imitation learning.
Google introduces FLAN instruction tuning
Google Research's instruction tuning lifts zero-shot results on unseen tasks, beating zero-shot GPT-3 on 20 of 25.
OpenAI launches Codex
Codex, the model behind GitHub Copilot, translates natural language to code; private beta in the API.
Google open-sources AlphaFold and launches AlphaFold DB
AlphaFold's code is open-sourced, and predictions for many species' proteomes are freely available in AlphaFold DB.
Anthropic founded with $124M Series A
Anthropic launches with a $124 million round to research steerable, interpretable and robust AI systems.
Google launches LaMDA
Google's conversational language model, trained on dialogue, can talk freely about a seemingly endless number of topics.
OpenAI launches DALL·E
A 12-billion parameter version of GPT-3 that generates images from text captions.
OpenAI launches CLIP
A neural network that learns visual concepts from natural language and classifies images zero-shot.
2020
Google releases Vision Transformer (ViT)
Google Research's ViT applies the Transformer to image patches, beating comparable CNNs with four times less compute.
Google's AlphaFold 2 solves protein folding
DeepMind's latest AlphaFold scores a median 92.4 GDT at CASP14, recognised as a solution to protein folding.
OpenAI API
A general-purpose text-in, text-out API for OpenAI's models, available by access request.
OpenAI launches GPT-3
A 175-billion-parameter language model that performs new tasks from a few examples, without fine-tuning.
Google releases T5, the text-to-text Transformer
Google Research open-sources T5, an 11B-parameter text-to-text model, with the C4 dataset.
OpenAI publishes scaling laws for language models
Loss scales as a power law with model size, dataset size and compute used for training.
2019
Microsoft invests $1B in OpenAI
Microsoft invests $1 billion and becomes OpenAI's exclusive cloud provider for Azure AI supercomputing.
OpenAI Five beats Dota 2 world champions
OpenAI Five beat world champion team OG, the first AI to beat esports world champions.
OpenAI LP (capped-profit)
OpenAI creates a "capped-profit" company to raise capital for compute and talent while serving its mission.
OpenAI launches GPT-2
A 1.5B-parameter language model trained to predict the next word; only a much smaller model was released.
Google's AlphaStar beats a StarCraft II pro
DeepMind's AlphaStar became the first AI to defeat a top professional StarCraft II player, winning 5-0 against MaNa.
2018
Google launches AlphaZero
DeepMind's AlphaZero teaches itself chess, shogi and Go, beating a world-champion program in each.
Google releases BERT
Google open-sources BERT, a bidirectional pre-trained language model, state of the art on 11 NLP tasks.
OpenAI launches GPT-1
Transformers plus unsupervised pre-training set state-of-the-art results across language tasks; system released.
Google AI Principles
Google announces seven principles to guide its AI work and lists applications it will not pursue, such as weapons.
Google Duplex
AI system that holds natural phone conversations to book appointments; testing in Google Assistant planned for summer.
2017
Google launches AlphaGo Zero
DeepMind's AlphaGo Zero learns Go by self-play alone and beats the champion-defeating AlphaGo 100-0.
Google introduces the Transformer architecture
Google Brain's self-attention network beats recurrent and convolutional models on translation.
OpenAI introduces Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO)
A reinforcement learning algorithm that is simpler to tune, made OpenAI's default RL algorithm.
OpenAI introduces RLHF from human preferences
RLHF, with DeepMind's safety team: an algorithm infers what humans want from which of two behaviors is better.
2016
Google launches Neural Machine Translation
Google Translate now uses GNMT for all Chinese-to-English translations, cutting translation errors by 55%-85%.
Google launches WaveNet
DeepMind's generative model of raw audio produces more natural speech than the best existing text-to-speech systems.
Google's AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 4-1
DeepMind's AlphaGo beat Go champion Lee Sedol 4-1 in a five-game match in Seoul.
Google launches AlphaGo
DeepMind's AlphaGo beat European champion Fan Hui 5-0, the first program to beat a professional Go player.
2015
OpenAI founded
OpenAI launches as a non-profit AI research company, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return.
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