As of: 2026-10-10 14:45 CEST. Researched and written by AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code). Human editor: Adam Bicz. Canonical page: https://postcutoff.com/news/22/ # AI news, newest first, page 22 Every AI event we have logged, newest first: 1,105 events, each dated and sourced. Page 22 of 23, 50 events per page, grouped by the day each event happened. ## Wednesday 22 March 2023 - [Future of Life Institute open letter calls for a 6-month pause on training AI more powerful than GPT-4](https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-03-22-fli-pause-giant-ai-experiments/) (Policy & safety; Future of Life Institute; major). It was the first mass-signature call to slow frontier AI, and it framed three years of pause debates. Source: https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/ ## Tuesday 14 March 2023 - [OpenAI releases GPT-4](https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-03-14-gpt-4/) (Model releases; OpenAI; historic). Defined the frontier for over a year and triggered serious policy attention to AI risk (pause letter, hearings, summits). Source: https://openai.com/index/gpt-4-research/ - [Anthropic releases Claude](https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-03-14-claude-1/) (Model releases; Anthropic; major). Started the Claude model family, which became a leading competitor to GPT models, especially in coding and agents. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/introducing-claude ## Friday 24 February 2023 - [Meta releases LLaMA, sparking the open-weights LLM wave](https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-02-24-llama/) (Open source; Meta AI; historic). Kick-started the open-weights LLM movement that later produced Llama 2/3, Mistral, Qwen and DeepSeek. Source: https://ai.meta.com/blog/large-language-model-llama-meta-ai/ ## Thursday 15 December 2022 - [Anthropic introduces Constitutional AI (RLAIF)](https://postcutoff.com/e/2022-12-15-constitutional-ai/) (Policy & safety; Anthropic; major). Showed alignment could scale with AI supervision, making values explicit and auditable; RLAIF is now widespread. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/research/constitutional-ai-harmlessness-from-ai-feedback ## Wednesday 30 November 2022 - [OpenAI launches ChatGPT](https://postcutoff.com/e/2022-11-30-chatgpt/) (Products; OpenAI; historic). The moment AI became a mass-market technology — the start of the current era of AI investment, adoption and policy attention. Source: https://openai.com/index/chatgpt/ ## Wednesday 5 October 2022 - [AlphaTensor discovers faster matrix multiplication algorithms, beating Strassen's 1969 record for 4×4 mod 2](https://postcutoff.com/e/2022-10-05-alphatensor-matrix-multiplication/) (Science & math; DeepMind; major). It was the first AI-found improvement to a famous algorithmic record. Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05172-4 ## Monday 22 August 2022 - [Stable Diffusion released as open weights](https://postcutoff.com/e/2022-08-22-stable-diffusion/) (Open source; Stability AI, CompVis (LMU Munich), Runway; historic). The open-weights release made generative AI a grassroots movement and set off legal battles over training data. Source: https://stability.ai/news/stable-diffusion-public-release ## Wednesday 6 April 2022 - [DALL·E 2 brings photorealistic text-to-image generation](https://postcutoff.com/e/2022-04-06-dall-e-2/) (Media generation; OpenAI; major). Marked diffusion models' takeover of image generation and triggered debates on artists' rights and synthetic media. Source: https://openai.com/index/dall-e-2/ ## Tuesday 29 March 2022 - [DeepMind's Chinchilla revises scaling laws toward more data](https://postcutoff.com/e/2022-03-29-chinchilla/) (Research; DeepMind; major). Reshaped how every lab trains LLMs, pushing toward far larger datasets and smaller, cheaper-to-serve models (e.g. LLaMA). Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.15556 ## Tuesday 22 March 2022 - [NVIDIA announces the H100 'Hopper' GPU](https://postcutoff.com/e/2022-03-22-nvidia-h100-hopper/) (Chips & compute; NVIDIA; major). H100 supply became the key bottleneck and currency of the AI race; GPU counts became a proxy for lab ambition. Source: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-announces-hopper-architecture-the-next-generation-of-accelerated-computing ## Wednesday 16 February 2022 - [Deep reinforcement learning controls fusion plasma in the TCV tokamak](https://postcutoff.com/e/2022-02-16-deepmind-tokamak-plasma-control/) (Science & math; DeepMind, EPFL Swiss Plasma Center; major). It showed that RL could replace complex hand-engineered control in fusion devices and opened the way to AI-designed plasma scenarios. Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04301-9 ## Friday 28 January 2022 - [Chain-of-thought prompting elicits reasoning in LLMs](https://postcutoff.com/e/2022-01-28-chain-of-thought/) (Research; Google Research; major). Made 'thinking out loud' central to LLM capability; RL-trained reasoning models (o1, R1, Claude extended thinking) are its descendants. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.11903 ## Thursday 27 January 2022 - [InstructGPT: RLHF aligns language models to follow instructions](https://postcutoff.com/e/2022-01-27-instructgpt/) (Research; OpenAI; historic). RLHF turned raw LLMs into usable assistants and underlies ChatGPT, Claude and nearly all chat models. Source: https://openai.com/index/instruction-following/ ## Wednesday 1 December 2021 - [DeepMind and mathematicians use machine learning to guide new theorems in knot theory and representation theory](https://postcutoff.com/e/2021-12-01-deepmind-knot-theory-intuition/) (Science & math; DeepMind, University of Oxford, University of Sydney). It was the first Nature-level demonstration of AI contributing to pure maths research, as an intuition aid rather than a prover. Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04086-x ## Monday 22 November 2021 - [NASA's ExoMiner deep-learning model validates 301 new exoplanets from Kepler data](https://postcutoff.com/e/2021-11-22-exominer-301-exoplanets/) (Science & math; NASA Ames Research Center). AI vetting has become standard for the flood of survey data from Kepler, TESS and, soon, other surveys. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.10009 ## Tuesday 29 June 2021 - [GitHub Copilot and OpenAI Codex bring LLMs to programming](https://postcutoff.com/e/2021-06-29-github-copilot-codex/) (Products; GitHub, OpenAI, Microsoft; major). The first mass-market generative AI product for professionals; coding became the flagship LLM use case, leading to coding agents like Claude Code. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.03374 ## Friday 28 May 2021 - [Anthropic launches with a focus on AI safety](https://postcutoff.com/e/2021-05-28-anthropic-founded/) (Business; Anthropic). Became one of the three leading frontier labs, whose Claude models and safety research (RSP, interpretability) shaped the industry. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-124-million-to-build-more-reliable-general-ai-systems ## Thursday 29 April 2021 - [Adam Zsolt Wagner uses reinforcement learning to find counterexamples to open graph-theory conjectures](https://postcutoff.com/e/2021-04-29-wagner-rl-counterexamples/) (Science & math; Adam Zsolt Wagner). It was the template for the 2023–2026 wave of AI counterexample finding (FunSearch, AlphaEvolve, PatternBoost, LLM counterexamples). Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.14516 ## Tuesday 5 January 2021 - [OpenAI unveils DALL·E and CLIP](https://postcutoff.com/e/2021-01-05-dall-e-clip/) (Media generation; OpenAI; major). Launched the text-to-image era and made natural language the interface for vision models. Source: https://openai.com/index/dall-e/ ## Monday 30 November 2020 - [AlphaFold 2 solves protein structure prediction at CASP14](https://postcutoff.com/e/2020-11-30-alphafold-2/) (Science & math; DeepMind; historic). The clearest case of AI producing a major scientific breakthrough; used by millions of researchers and recognized with a Nobel Prize. Source: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphafold-a-solution-to-a-50-year-old-grand-challenge-in-biology/ ## Wednesday 8 July 2020 - [Liverpool's mobile robot chemist runs 688 experiments in 8 days and finds a 6× better photocatalyst](https://postcutoff.com/e/2020-07-08-mobile-robotic-chemist/) (Science & math; University of Liverpool). It is a landmark for self-driving laboratories, the physical half of the "AI scientist" vision. Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2442-2 ## Thursday 28 May 2020 - [GPT-3 (175B) shows in-context few-shot learning](https://postcutoff.com/e/2020-05-28-gpt-3/) (Model releases; OpenAI; historic). Turned LLMs into a platform; many startups were built on its API, and it directly preceded InstructGPT and ChatGPT. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165 ## Thursday 20 February 2020 - [Deep learning discovers halicin, a structurally new broad-spectrum antibiotic](https://postcutoff.com/e/2020-02-20-halicin-ai-antibiotic/) (Science & math; MIT, Broad Institute; major). It launched the modern field of AI antibiotic discovery at a time of stalled antibiotic pipelines. Source: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)30102-1 ## Thursday 23 January 2020 - [OpenAI publishes 'Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models'](https://postcutoff.com/e/2020-01-23-scaling-laws/) (Research; OpenAI; historic). Scaling laws became the strategic basis for the trillion-dollar compute build-out of the 2020s. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08361 ## Monday 22 July 2019 - [Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAI](https://postcutoff.com/e/2019-07-22-microsoft-invests-openai/) (Business; Microsoft, OpenAI). Set the template of Big Tech–frontier lab alliances funding ever-larger training runs. Source: https://openai.com/index/microsoft-invests-in-and-partners-with-openai/ ## Wednesday 27 March 2019 - [Hinton, LeCun and Bengio receive the Turing Award for deep learning](https://postcutoff.com/e/2019-03-27-turing-award-deep-learning/) (Milestones; ACM). Signaled the complete mainstream acceptance of deep learning within computer science. Source: https://awards.acm.org/about/2018-turing ## Wednesday 13 March 2019 - [Rich Sutton publishes "The Bitter Lesson"](https://postcutoff.com/e/2019-03-13-sutton-bitter-lesson/) (Research; University of Alberta, DeepMind; major). On March 13, 2019 reinforcement-learning pioneer Rich Sutton published the short essay "The Bitter Lesson". Source: http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html ## Thursday 14 February 2019 - [OpenAI announces GPT-2 and withholds the full model over misuse concerns](https://postcutoff.com/e/2019-02-14-gpt-2/) (Model releases; OpenAI; major). First public glimpse of what scaling LLMs could do and the first major debate over whether to release model weights. Source: https://openai.com/index/better-language-models/ ## Sunday 2 December 2018 - [AlphaFold (v1) tops the CASP13 protein-structure prediction assessment](https://postcutoff.com/e/2018-12-02-alphafold-1-casp13/) (Science & math; DeepMind; major). Marked AI's entry into a grand challenge of biology and set up the 2020 AlphaFold 2 breakthrough. Source: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1923-7 ## Thursday 11 October 2018 - [Google releases BERT, bidirectional Transformer pre-training](https://postcutoff.com/e/2018-10-11-bert/) (Model releases; Google AI Language; major). Triggered the 'ImageNet moment' of NLP: pre-trained Transformers became the default for all language tasks. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04805 ## Monday 11 June 2018 - [OpenAI's GPT-1: generative pre-training of Transformers](https://postcutoff.com/e/2018-06-11-gpt-1/) (Model releases; OpenAI; major). Established the pre-train-then-adapt paradigm and the decoder-only Transformer lineage that led to ChatGPT. Source: https://openai.com/index/language-unsupervised/ ## Tuesday 5 December 2017 - [AlphaGo Zero and AlphaZero master games through pure self-play](https://postcutoff.com/e/2017-12-05-alphazero/) (Research; DeepMind; historic). Proved that learning from self-generated experience can exceed human knowledge — an idea that resurfaced in RL-trained reasoning models (o1, R1) in 2024–2025. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01815 ## Saturday 11 November 2017 - [Andrej Karpathy's essay "Software 2.0"](https://postcutoff.com/e/2017-11-11-karpathy-software-2-0/) (Research; Tesla). It gave the deep-learning era its best-known software-engineering metaphor, and Karpathy's later talks ('Software 3.0', where natural-language prompts program LLMs) and his 2025 'vibe coding' post build directly on it. Source: https://karpathy.medium.com/software-2-0-a64152b37c35 ## Monday 12 June 2017 - ['Attention Is All You Need' introduces the Transformer](https://postcutoff.com/e/2017-06-12-transformer/) (Research; Google Brain, Google Research; historic). Arguably the most consequential AI paper of the century so far: the Transformer's scalability made LLMs, multimodal models and AlphaFold 2 possible. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762 ## Tuesday 15 March 2016 - [AlphaGo defeats Lee Sedol 4–1 at Go](https://postcutoff.com/e/2016-03-15-alphago-lee-sedol/) (Milestones; Google DeepMind; historic). A watershed for deep reinforcement learning and a 'Sputnik moment' that spurred massive AI investment, particularly in China. Source: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature16961 ## Friday 11 December 2015 - [OpenAI founded as a non-profit AI research lab](https://postcutoff.com/e/2015-12-11-openai-founded/) (Business; OpenAI; major). OpenAI went on to create GPT-3, ChatGPT and o1, becoming the most influential lab of the LLM era. Source: https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai/ ## Thursday 10 December 2015 - [ResNet: residual learning enables very deep networks](https://postcutoff.com/e/2015-12-10-resnet/) (Research; Microsoft Research; major). Residual connections are a universal ingredient of deep learning; every Transformer block uses them. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.03385 ## Wednesday 10 September 2014 - [Sequence-to-sequence learning and neural attention](https://postcutoff.com/e/2014-09-10-seq2seq-attention/) (Research; Google, Université de Montréal; major). Established the encoder–decoder paradigm and attention — the direct precursors of the Transformer and modern LLMs. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.3215 ## Tuesday 10 June 2014 - [Ian Goodfellow introduces Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)](https://postcutoff.com/e/2014-06-10-generative-adversarial-networks/) (Research; Université de Montréal; major). The first generative approach to produce convincingly realistic images, it opened the modern era of AI media generation. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.2661 ## Thursday 19 December 2013 - [DeepMind's DQN learns to play Atari games from pixels](https://postcutoff.com/e/2013-12-19-dqn-atari/) (Research; DeepMind; major). Launched deep reinforcement learning as a field and put DeepMind on the path to AlphaGo. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.5602 ## Wednesday 16 January 2013 - [word2vec: efficient word embeddings from Google](https://postcutoff.com/e/2013-01-16-word2vec/) (Research; Google; major). Popularized learned embeddings, a core building block of all subsequent NLP including Transformers and LLMs. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3781 ## Sunday 30 September 2012 - [AlexNet wins ImageNet challenge, igniting the deep learning boom](https://postcutoff.com/e/2012-09-30-alexnet/) (Research; University of Toronto; historic). The single event most often cited as the start of the modern AI era: it established GPUs + big data + deep nets as the winning recipe and made NVIDIA central to AI. Source: https://papers.nips.cc/paper/2012/hash/c399862d3b9d6b76c8436e924a68c45b-Abstract.html ## Wednesday 16 February 2011 - [IBM Watson wins Jeopardy! against human champions](https://postcutoff.com/e/2011-02-16-ibm-watson-jeopardy/) (Milestones; IBM; major). A high-profile demonstration of open-domain question answering, a decade before LLMs made such capabilities general-purpose. Source: https://www.ibm.com/history/watson-jeopardy ## June 2009, day not recorded - [ImageNet dataset presented at CVPR 2009](https://postcutoff.com/e/2009-06-20-imagenet/) (Benchmarks; Princeton University, Stanford University; historic). Showed that data scale was a key ingredient of progress; AlexNet's 2012 ImageNet win kicked off the deep learning era. Source: https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR.2009.5206848 ## July 2006, day not recorded - [Hinton's deep belief nets launch the 'deep learning' revival](https://postcutoff.com/e/2006-07-01-deep-belief-networks/) (Research; University of Toronto; major). It rebranded neural networks as 'deep learning' and set the stage for the GPU-powered breakthroughs of 2009–2012. Source: https://doi.org/10.1162/neco.2006.18.7.1527 ## November 1997, day not recorded - [Hochreiter & Schmidhuber introduce Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)](https://postcutoff.com/e/1997-11-15-lstm/) (Research; TU Munich, IDSIA; major). LSTMs dominated sequence modeling (speech, translation, handwriting) until the Transformer, and underpinned early seq2seq systems like Google Translate's 2016 neural system. Source: https://doi.org/10.1162/neco.1997.9.8.1735 ## Sunday 11 May 1997 - [IBM Deep Blue defeats world chess champion Garry Kasparov](https://postcutoff.com/e/1997-05-11-deep-blue-kasparov/) (Milestones; IBM; historic). A landmark public moment for AI, though achieved by specialized search rather than learning — a contrast with AlphaGo/AlphaZero two decades later. Source: https://www.ibm.com/history/deep-blue ## 1989, date not recorded - [LeCun applies backprop-trained convolutional nets to handwritten digits](https://postcutoff.com/e/1989-12-01-lecun-convolutional-networks/) (Research; AT&T Bell Labs; major). Convolutional networks became the backbone of computer vision and the architecture that triggered the deep learning revolution in 2012. Source: https://doi.org/10.1162/neco.1989.1.4.541 ## Thursday 9 October 1986 - [Rumelhart, Hinton & Williams popularize backpropagation](https://postcutoff.com/e/1986-10-09-backpropagation/) (Research; UC San Diego, Carnegie Mellon University; historic). Backpropagation is still how essentially all neural networks, including today's LLMs, are trained. 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