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2024

EU AI Act adopted

The first comprehensive horizontal AI law, introducing risk tiers and obligations with phased enforcement.

RegulationRegulationEuropean Union
2023

US Executive Order on AI

A wide-ranging executive order setting US federal direction on AI safety, security, and governance.

RegulationRegulationUnited States
2023

GPT-4

A large multimodal model with markedly stronger reasoning and exam performance than its predecessors.

LaunchLanguage ModelsOpenAI
2023

LLaMA open weights

A family of capable language models with openly available weights, catalyzing the open-weights ecosystem.

LaunchOpen SourceMeta
2022

ChatGPT launches

A conversational interface to a large language model that reached mass adoption and brought AI into mainstream use.

LaunchProductsOpenAI
2022

Whisper speech recognition

An open speech-recognition model trained on large-scale weak supervision, robust across many languages.

LaunchAudioOpenAI
2022

Stable Diffusion released

An openly released text-to-image diffusion model that brought image generation to a wide audience.

LaunchImage GenerationStability AI
2022

Chinchilla scaling laws

Showed that many large models were undertrained, reframing how compute should be split between model size and data.

PaperScalingDeepMind
2020

AlphaFold 2 solves protein folding

Achieved a breakthrough in predicting protein 3D structure, a decades-old grand challenge in biology.

MilestoneScienceDeepMind
2020

MMLU benchmark

A multitask knowledge benchmark across 57 subjects, widely used to compare language-model capabilities.

BenchmarkBenchmarksUC Berkeley
2020

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models

A key paper establishing diffusion models as a powerful approach to high-quality image generation.

PaperImage GenerationUC Berkeley
2020

GPT-3

Showed that scaling language models to 175B parameters produced strong few-shot abilities, popularizing large-scale LLMs.

PaperLanguage ModelsOpenAI
2018

BERT

A bidirectional Transformer pretraining method that set a new standard for many language-understanding tasks.

PaperLanguage ModelsGoogle
2017

Attention Is All You Need

Introduced the Transformer architecture, which became the foundation of nearly all modern large language models.

PaperArchitecturesGoogle
2016

AlphaGo defeats Lee Sedol

AlphaGo beat a top human Go player, a landmark for reinforcement learning and search in a game long thought hard for AI.

MilestoneReinforcement LearningDeepMind
2015

Deep Residual Learning (ResNet)

Introduced residual connections, enabling much deeper networks and influencing architectures across AI.

PaperArchitecturesMicrosoft Research
2014

Generative Adversarial Networks

Introduced GANs, training two networks against each other to generate realistic data, a foundational idea for generative models.

PaperGenerativeUniversite de Montreal
2012

AlexNet wins ImageNet

A deep convolutional neural network dramatically cut the ImageNet error rate, widely seen as the spark of the modern deep-learning era.

MilestoneDeep LearningUniversity of Toronto

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