1950
Alan Turing publishes "Computing Machinery and
Intelligence" - Turing
Test proposed
1956
Dartmouth Conference - Birth of AI as a field
1958
LISP programming language created by John McCarthy
1964-66
ELIZA - First chatbot built by Joseph Weizenbaum
1976
MYCIN expert system for medical diagnostics developed
1986
Backpropagation algorithm popularized for neural networks
1997
IBM Deep Blue defeats world chess champion Garry Kasparov
2002
iRobot Roomba - First commercially successful autonomous
robot
2004
DARPA Grand Challenge (first autonomous vehicle race)
Oct 2005
STANLEY AI CAR wins DARPA Grand Challenge
Feb 2010
Apple's Siri launched
Feb 2011
IBM Watson wins Jeopardy!
Sep 2012
AlexNet revolutionizes computer vision
Jan 2014
Google acquires DeepMind
Mar 2016
Google's AlphaGo defeats world champion
Jun 2017
Transformers paper published
Jun 11, 2018
OpenAI publishes the GPT paper "Improving Language Understanding by Generative Pre-Training," introducing GPT-1
Oct 11, 2018
Google publishes BERT: "Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding"
Dec 5, 2018
Waymo launches Waymo One, a commercial self-driving ride-hailing service for public riders in the Phoenix area
Dec 2020
Google's AlphaFold solves protein folding
Nov 2022
Release of ChatGPT 3.5
Mar 14, 2023
Anthropic releases Claude (CloudBot / Claude bot)
Jul 11, 2023
Claude 2 launches and Claude.ai makes the chatbot broadly
available
Dec 2024
DeepSeek released
May 2025
Google's Veo 3 announced
Sep 2025
Sora 2 (OpenAI's video and audio generation model)
released
Nov 18, 2025
Google Gemini 3 Pro released
Nov 24, 2025
Anthropic Claude Opus 4.5 released
Dec 11, 2025
GPT-5.2 released (OpenAI's response to Gemini 3)
Feb 5, 2026
- OpenAI GPT-5.3 Codex released
- Anthropic Claude Opus 4.6 released
Apr 7, 2026
Anthropic announces Project Glasswing and Claude Mythos Preview, a gated cybersecurity-focused frontier model and initiative to secure critical software.
Apr 16, 2026
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7, an upgraded frontier model for advanced software engineering, high-resolution vision, and long-running agentic work.
Apr 21, 2026
OpenAI introduces ChatGPT Images 2.0, a new image model focused on stronger photorealism and improved text rendering.
Apr 23, 2026
OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 for ChatGPT and Codex, with GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro API availability following on Apr 24.
May 20, 2026
OpenAI announces that an internal reasoning model autonomously disproved the planar unit distance conjecture, an 80-year-old Erdős problem posed in 1946, marking a major AI milestone in mathematical discovery.