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The Timeline of AI Breakthroughs

AI has been advancing at a pace that's hard to follow. This timeline tracks the milestones — the model releases and products that genuinely moved things forward. First launches only, curated by hand. Drag or scroll to explore.

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AlexNet wins ImageNet, deep learning era begins

Sep 2012

Jun 2014

Generative Adversarial Networks introduced by Goodfellow et al.

"Attention Is All You Need", the Transformer architecture is published

Jun 2017

Jun 2018

OpenAI releases GPT-1, first large-scale generative language model

Google releases BERT, bidirectional language model sets new NLP benchmarks

Oct 2018

Jan 2021

OpenAI unveils DALL-E, GPT-3 variant that generates images from text

GitHub Copilot launches in technical preview, AI pair programmer

Jun 2021

Jul 2021

DeepMind releases AlphaFold 2 database, solves protein folding

Midjourney enters open beta, AI art generation goes mainstream

Jul 2022

Aug 2022

Stable Diffusion released openly, first open-source image generation model

OpenAI releases Whisper, robust open-source speech recognition

Sep 2022

Nov 2022

ChatGPT launches, reaches 1 million users in 5 days

Meta releases LLaMA, open foundation models from 7B to 65B parameters

Feb 2023

Mar 2023

Anthropic introduces Claude, constitutional AI assistant enters limited beta

Google opens Bard to public, powered by LaMDA, later PaLM 2

Mar 2023

Sep 2023

Mistral 7B released, outperforms Llama 2 13B on most benchmarks

DeepSeek releases its first open-source LLM

Nov 2023

Nov 2023

xAI releases Grok, real-time web-connected AI model with personality

OpenAI announces Sora, text-to-video model generates realistic 60-second clips

Feb 2024

Models and products only · curated by hand · 19 entries

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