AI Timeline: News and Events from 1950 - 2026 that have defined Artificial Intelligence
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Artificial Intelligence - How did we get here? In this timeline we look at the technological advances, events and AI news from 1950 up to the present day. See https://theAInavigator.com for more.
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Alan Turing publishes the paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"John McCarthy coins the term "Artificial Intelligence"Logic Theorist demonstrationDartmouth ConferencePerceptron (first modern neural network)ELIZAShakey the RobotGeneral Problem Solver (GPS)Cyc Knowledge Base SystemArtificial LifeNeural Networks ResurgenceSpeech Recognition BreakthroughReinforcement Learning BreakthroughAutonomous Robot NavigationDeep Blue vs. Garry Kasparov Chess MatchFirst RoboCupDeep Blue and Kasparov RematchConnectionism and Neural NetworksSony's AIBO Entertainment RobotASIMO Humanoid RobotRoomba Home Cleaning RobotDARPA Grand ChallengeNatural Language Processing BreakthroughStanford's Stanley Wins DARPA ChallengeAmazon Web Services (AWS) LaunchApple's iPhone LaunchNetflix Prize beginsDARPA's Urban Autonomous Vehicle ChallengeTesla Motors and Electric VehiclesGoogle's Android Operating System launchIBM's Watson Jeopardy! ChallengeGoogle's Self-Driving Car InitiativeIBM's Watson on JeopardyMicrosoft launches KinectSiri Virtual AssistantGoogle's Project GlassGoogle's Neural Network BreakthroughFacebook launches AI Research LabNeural Networks Advance Speech RecognitionDeepMind Technologies Acquisition by GoogleFacebook's DeepFaceMicrosoft's Cortana Virtual AssistantBoston Dynamics' Robotics AdvancementsGoogle's DeepMind and Atari BreakthroughGoogle's DeepMind AlphaGoMicrosoft's CaptionBotAlphaGo vs. Lee SedolMicrosoft Acquires SwiftKeyMicrosoft launches emotion-recognizing APIMicrosoft Tay IncidentFacebook's DeepTextAmazon Echo and Alexa's RiseTesla's Autopilot ControversyOpenAI Initiative launchesReinforcement Learning BreakthroughWaymo's Self-Driving Car MilestoneAI Defeats Human Players in PokerAI Translates Languages in Real TimeOpenAI's Dota 2 VictoryGoogle's Self-Driving Car MilestoneGoogle Duplex UnveiledGDPR ImplementationAI-Generated Artwork Sold at AuctionAI in Autonomous DeliveryGoogle Pixel 3's AI Camera CapabilitiesAlibaba's AI Outperforms HumansAI Predicts Protein StructuresOpenAI's GPT-2 ControversyAI used to Enhance First-Ever Photo of Black HoleAI in AgricultureGPT-2 Language Model ReleaseIBM Debater vs. Human Debate ChampionsOpenAI's GPT-2 Full ReleaseMicrosoft introduces DeepSpeedGPT-3 LaunchOpenAI's GPT-3 APIDeepMind's AlphaFold 2
wins CASP competitionNVIDIA's GeForce RTX 30 SeriesGoogle's DeepMind Achieves Quantum SupremacyAI-Generated COVID-19 Vaccine DesignsAmazon introduces
Alexa ConversationsPerseverance Rover Lands on MarsWaymo's Fully Autonomous Taxi ServiceOpenAI's DALL-E Image GenerationMicrosoft's GPT-3 License AgreementOpenAI's CLIP Image-Text ModelTesla's Full Self-Driving Beta ReleaseOpenAI's Codex AI for ProgrammingOpenAI's DALL-E 2 Image GenerationGoogle's Multitask Unified Model (MUM)NVIDIA's OmniverseOpenAI's ChatGPT Plus SubscriptionMidjourney v2 availableMidjourney v3 availableMidjourney v4 availableChatGPT DebutChatGPT reaches 100 million usersOpenAI's GPT-4 ReleaseMidjourney v5 availableGoogle Bard released to beta usersMidjourney v5.1 availableGoogle Bard access openedOpenAI releases ChatGPT iPhone appDeepMind's MuZero General Game PlayerMeta’s LLaMA model leakedItaly bans ChatGPT‘Woodstock of AI’ event in San FranciscoAI researchers and CEOs warn against ‘risk of extinction’ in joint statement.Google consolidates its AI research labs into oneEU passes draft of AI ActAnthropic releases AI constitutionAdobe integrates generative AI directly into PhotoshopStable Diffusion launchesOpenAI CEO Sam Altman
testifies before CongressThe White House releases
Blueprint for an AI Bill of RightsOpenAI rolls out ChatGPT PluginsOpenAI Introduces ChatGPT PluginsBing AI chatbot arrivesThe AI Navigator launches publiclySupposed ‘final’ Beatles song planned with help of AIPresident Biden hosts AI meeting in San FranciscoVaughan Pratt thesis: Translation of English into Logical ExpressionsMeta introduces Voicebox speech modelAnthropic releases Claude 2Meta introduces CM3leon generative model for text and imagesMeta releases Llama 2Gopher LLM released by GoogleFalcon LLM releasedBERT Large Language Model releasedBLOOM large language model releasedChinchilla large language model releasedOpenAI releases ‘Custom Instructions’ feature for ChatGPTTransformer Architecture
introduced with research paper
“Attention is All You Need”Meta introduces SeamlessM4T, a Multimodal AI Model for Speech and Text TranslationsSwift AI drone becomes first autonomous mobile robot to beat humans in a physical sport.Anthropic launches Claude ProOpenAI releases DALL-E 3Bletchley Declaration signed by 28 countriesOpenAI DevDay: Custom GPTs and moreGoogle announces GeminiOpenAI Leadership FiascoAmazon announces Q chatbotHumane launches AI-powered wearable pinMeta releases new Ray-Ban Smart GlassesU.S. President Biden issues executive order on AI safetyNew York Times sues OpenAIGoogle’s Bard becomes GeminiOpenAI reveals ‘Sora’, a powerful Text-to-Video ModelGoogle Introduces GemmaAnthropic releases Claude 3EU Parliament approves AI ActMeta Introduces Llama 3 ModelGoogle introduces AlphaFold 3 modelGoogle unveils projects Astra, Veo and several other AI capabilitiesOpenAI launches GPT-4oEuroparl Corpus releasedImageNet's AlexNet BreakthroughSeoul Summit AI Safety DeclarationEU Establishes AI Office to Oversee AI Development and GovernanceUnveil of "Apple Intelligence", Apple's highly anticipated AI integrationRecord labels sue AI music generators,
alleging copyright infringementAlphaProteo generates novel proteinsUS, UK, and the EU sign international AI treatyOpenAI releases reasoning model: o1Snap unveils new AI wearable glassesMeta releases Llama 3.2 model,
showcases Orion holographic AR/AI glassesHopfield and Hinton Win 2024 Nobel Prize for Pioneering AI Breakthroughs in Neural NetworksGoogle reveals 'Willow' quantum computing chipApple Brings AI to the Masses with ChatGPT
and Custom Image ToolsRelease of DeepSeek-R1 modelAI Action Summit DeclarationOpenAI releases GPT-4.5Model Context Protocol gets update,
and OpenAI's supportGoogle Introduces the Agent2Agent ProtocolPaper: Learning representations by
back-propagating errorsGradient-Based Learning Applied to Document RecognitionImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural NetworksConcept of Generative Adversarial Networks introducedOpenAI releases open-weight modelsOpenAI launches GPT-5Launch of FutureHouse: AI Agents Accelerate Scientific DiscoveryGitHub Copilot enters technical previewGoogle launches NotebookLMAnthropic Founded"Godfathers of Deep Learning"
Receive ACM Turing AwardDeepMind Launches AlphaFold
Protein Structure DatabaseMidjourney Launches Midjourney Medical
and Full-Body Ultrasonic ScannerPeriods
Terry Winograd's natural language processing workMYCIN project at StanfordFirst AI WinterAutonomous Vehicles in Controlled EnvironmentsGPT-4 - OpenAI’s best publicly available modelMidjourney v5GPT 3.5 - OpenAI’s best publicly available modelMidjourney version 4Midjourney v3Midjourney v2Google Bard in BetaGoogle BardMidjourney v5.1Midjourney v5.2The PARRY projectGPT-4 Turbo - OpenAI’s best publicly available modelMidjourney v6.0Google GeminiClaude 2 - Anthropic’s best publicly available modelClaude 1.3 - Anthropic’s best publicly available modelClaude 3 Opus - Anthropic’s best publicly available modelGPT-4o: OpenAI’s best publicly available modelClaude 3.7 Sonnet - Anthropic’s best publicly available modelo1 Preview: OpenAI’s best publicly available modelo1 Pro: OpenAI’s best publicly available modelGemini 2.0: Google's best publicly available modelClaude 3.5 Sonnet - Anthropic’s best publicly available model (copy)Gemini 2.5: Google's best publicly available modelMidjourney 7.0Claude 4 - Anthropic’s best publicly available modelGPT-5: OpenAI’s best publicly available modelo3: OpenAI’s best publicly available modelClaude 4.5 - Anthropic’s best publicly available modelGemini 3.0: Google's best publicly available modelGPT-5.5: OpenAI’s best publicly available modelClaude Fable 5 - Anthropic’s best publicly available modelMidjourney 8.1Gemini 3.5: Google's best publicly available modelGPT-5.6: OpenAI’s best publicly available model
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