Editorial Guides
AI History Guides
Curated evergreen pages that connect the raw timeline into bigger narratives, from frontier labs to the rise of agents.
History of OpenAI
A curated history of OpenAI from its 2015 founding through GPT, ChatGPT, multimodal systems, and reasoning-era products.
History of AI Agents
A narrative timeline of how AI agents evolved from theoretical ideas and brittle demos into real tool-using systems.
Most Important AI Milestones
A curated shortlist of the AI milestones that most changed the direction, pace, or public meaning of the field.
History of Artificial Intelligence
The history of artificial intelligence, from 1943 neural theory through the Dartmouth Conference, AI winters, deep learning, and the LLM and agent eras.
History of Neural Networks
A history of neural networks and deep learning, from the 1943 artificial neuron through the perceptron, backpropagation, and the 2012 AlexNet breakthrough.
History of Large Language Models
How large language models evolved from word embeddings and the transformer through BERT, the GPT line, ChatGPT, and reasoning models.
History of Generative AI
The history of generative AI, from GANs in 2014 through DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, ChatGPT, Midjourney, and Sora's text-to-video.
History of the AI Winters
How the AI winters happened: the Perceptrons critique, the Lighthill Report, the expert systems crash, and what each AI winter taught the field.
Who Invented AI?
No single person invented AI. A clear guide to who invented AI, from Turing and McCulloch-Pitts to McCarthy, Minsky, and Rosenblatt.
History of DeepMind
A grounded history of DeepMind, from its deep reinforcement learning work on Atari to AlphaGo, AlphaStar, AlphaFold, and the 2024 Nobel Prizes.
GPT Timeline: Every Model from GPT-1 to o3
A GPT timeline tracing every OpenAI model from GPT-1 in 2018 through GPT-3, ChatGPT, GPT-4, GPT-4o, and the o1 and o3 reasoning models.
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