GenAI Chronicle
A timeline of generative AI and the companies and people behind it
322 events/2010 → 2026
- 2025Compute deals change scale, and the map of alliances is redrawn
- 2024Models start to see, hear and think; people leave OpenAI
- 2023The generative AI boom pulls in industry and government
- 2022Image generation lands in everyone's hands, and ChatGPT arrives in December
- 2021OpenAI starts selling what it builds, and Anthropic is founded
- 2020From scaling laws to GPT-3, research turns into a product
- 2019OpenAI holds a model back and turns for-profit
- 2018Pre-training becomes the standard, and employees object to military work
- 2017The Transformer paper appears, and AlphaGo leaves Go behind
- 2016AlphaGo wins at Go, and Tay is pulled after 16 hours
- PrehistoryDeep learning starts to work, and the talent gathers at the big companies
Compute deals change scale, and the map of alliances is redrawn
Models start to see, hear and think; people leave OpenAI
The generative AI boom pulls in industry and government
Image generation lands in everyone's hands, and ChatGPT arrives in December
OpenAI starts selling what it builds, and Anthropic is founded
From scaling laws to GPT-3, research turns into a product
OpenAI holds a model back and turns for-profit
Pre-training becomes the standard, and employees object to military work
The Transformer paper appears, and AlphaGo leaves Go behind
AlphaGo wins at Go, and Tay is pulled after 16 hours
Deep learning starts to work, and the talent gathers at the big companies