As of: 2026-10-10 23:43 CEST. Researched and written by AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code). Human editor: Adam Bicz. Canonical page: https://postcutoff.com/news/major/6/ # Major AI news, newest first, page 6 The 332 major or historic events of 1,141 in the log, newest first. Page 6 of 7, 50 events per page, grouped by the day each event happened. ## Monday 24 February 2025 - [Claude 3.7 Sonnet (hybrid reasoning) and Claude Code preview](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-02-24-claude-3-7-sonnet-claude-code/) (Model releases; Anthropic; major). Claude Code became a breakout product and a template for terminal coding agents (Codex CLI, Gemini CLI), shifting software development toward agent delegation. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-7-sonnet ## Wednesday 19 February 2025 - [Google's AI co-scientist independently reproduces an unpublished superbug discovery in 48 hours](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-02-19-google-ai-co-scientist/) (Science & math; Google, Google DeepMind, Imperial College London, Stanford University; major). It was the most-cited early example of an LLM system generating a correct, non-obvious scientific hypothesis. Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10644-y ## Tuesday 21 January 2025 - [Stargate: $500 billion AI infrastructure venture announced](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-01-21-stargate-project/) (Chips & compute; OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle, MGX; major). Symbolized the shift to industrial-scale AI compute build-out, measured in gigawatts and hundreds of billions of dollars. Source: https://openai.com/index/announcing-the-stargate-project/ ## Monday 20 January 2025 - [DeepSeek-R1: open-weights reasoning model rivals o1 and shakes markets](https://postcutoff.com/e/2025-01-20-deepseek-r1/) (Open source; DeepSeek; historic). The 'DeepSeek moment' showed that frontier reasoning could be replicated cheaply and openly, triggering a market shock, a wave of open reasoning models, and US policy debates on China. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12948 ## Thursday 26 December 2024 - [DeepSeek-V3: frontier-level open model trained for ~$5.6M in GPU time](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-12-26-deepseek-v3/) (Open source; DeepSeek; historic). Upended assumptions about the cost of frontier AI and China's position; it was the base for DeepSeek-R1 weeks later. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.19437 ## Friday 20 December 2024 - [OpenAI announces o3, scoring 75.7–87.5% on ARC-AGI](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-12-20-openai-o3/) (Benchmarks; OpenAI, ARC Prize; historic). Convinced many observers that reasoning models were on a steep trajectory; ARC Prize called it a genuine step-change. Source: https://arcprize.org/blog/oai-o3-pub-breakthrough ## Wednesday 11 December 2024 - [Google launches Gemini 2.0 for the 'agentic era'](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-12-11-gemini-2/) (Model releases; Google DeepMind; major). Marked Google's return to competitive parity and the industry's pivot to agents. Source: https://blog.google/technology/google-deepmind/google-gemini-ai-update-december-2024/ ## Monday 25 November 2024 - [Anthropic open-sources the Model Context Protocol (MCP)](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-11-25-model-context-protocol/) (Agents; Anthropic; historic). Solved the N×M integration problem for agents and became core infrastructure of the agentic AI ecosystem. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-context-protocol ## Tuesday 22 October 2024 - [Anthropic releases computer use for Claude 3.5 Sonnet](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-10-22-claude-computer-use/) (Agents; Anthropic; major). Launched GUI agents at the frontier; OpenAI's Operator and Google's Project Mariner followed within months. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/3-5-models-and-computer-use ## Friday 11 October 2024 - [Dario Amodei publishes "Machines of Loving Grace"](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-10-11-amodei-machines-of-loving-grace/) (Policy & safety; Anthropic; major). 'Country of geniuses in a datacenter' became standard vocabulary, and the essay began Amodei's essay series. Source: https://www.darioamodei.com/essay/machines-of-loving-grace ## Wednesday 9 October 2024 - [Nobel Prize in Chemistry for protein design and AlphaFold](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-10-09-nobel-chemistry-alphafold/) (Milestones; Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Google DeepMind, University of Washington; historic). Confirmed AI as a tool of first-rank scientific discovery, less than four years after AlphaFold 2. Source: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2024/press-release/ ## Tuesday 8 October 2024 - [Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-10-08-nobel-physics-hopfield-hinton/) (Milestones; Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; historic). Together with the Chemistry prize a day later, it marked unprecedented recognition of AI by science's most prestigious award. Source: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2024/press-release/ ## Thursday 12 September 2024 - [OpenAI o1: reasoning models trained with reinforcement learning](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-09-12-openai-o1/) (Model releases; OpenAI; historic). Opened the 'reasoning model' era and a new scaling axis (test-time compute); every major lab followed within months. Source: https://openai.com/index/learning-to-reason-with-llms/ ## Thursday 1 August 2024 - [EU AI Act enters into force](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-08-01-eu-ai-act/) (Policy & safety; European Union; historic). The first binding horizontal AI regulation by a major jurisdiction, with extraterritorial effect on all labs serving the EU market. Source: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj ## Thursday 25 July 2024 - [AlphaProof and AlphaGeometry 2 reach IMO silver-medal standard](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-07-25-alphaproof-imo-silver/) (Science & math; Google DeepMind; major). First AI to reach medal level at the IMO; a year later, natural-language LLMs reached gold. Source: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/ai-solves-imo-problems-at-silver-medal-level/ ## Tuesday 23 July 2024 - [Llama 3.1 405B: the first frontier-class open-weights model](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-07-23-llama-3-1-405b/) (Open source; Meta; major). Narrowed the open–closed gap to months; open frontier weights reshaped policy debates and enabled wide distillation. Source: https://ai.meta.com/blog/meta-llama-3-1/ ## Thursday 20 June 2024 - [Claude 3.5 Sonnet launches with Artifacts](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-06-20-claude-3-5-sonnet/) (Model releases; Anthropic; major). Established Claude as the leading coding model, driving adoption in tools like Cursor and paving the way for coding agents. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-5-sonnet ## Tuesday 4 June 2024 - [Leopold Aschenbrenner publishes "Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead"](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-06-04-aschenbrenner-situational-awareness/) (Policy & safety; Situational Awareness; major). It shaped the vocabulary of 2024–2026 AI discourse ('counting the OOMs', 'trillion-dollar cluster', 'The Project') and influenced policymakers and investors. Source: https://situational-awareness.ai/ ## Friday 17 May 2024 - [Jan Leike resigns, saying OpenAI's safety culture 'has taken a backseat to shiny products'](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-05-17-leike-resigns-superalignment-disbanded/) (Policy & safety; OpenAI; major). It was the defining 'safety researchers leave a frontier lab' moment of 2024. Source: https://x.com/janleike/status/1791498174659715494 ## Monday 13 May 2024 - [OpenAI launches GPT-4o, a natively multimodal 'omni' model](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-05-13-gpt-4o/) (Model releases; OpenAI; major). Made natural voice interaction with AI mainstream and set the standard for omni-modal assistants. Source: https://openai.com/index/hello-gpt-4o/ ## Wednesday 8 May 2024 - [AlphaFold 3 predicts structures and interactions of all life's molecules](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-05-08-alphafold-3/) (Science & math; Google DeepMind, Isomorphic Labs; major). Moved AI structural biology from single proteins to the molecular interactions that matter for medicine. Source: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07487-w ## Monday 18 March 2024 - [NVIDIA unveils the Blackwell GPU platform](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-03-18-nvidia-blackwell/) (Chips & compute; NVIDIA; major). Blackwell racks became the building block of 2025's gigawatt-scale AI datacenters. Source: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-blackwell-platform-arrives-to-power-a-new-era-of-computing ## Monday 4 March 2024 - [Anthropic launches the Claude 3 family (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku)](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-03-04-claude-3/) (Model releases; Anthropic; major). Ended GPT-4's year-long uncontested lead and established the Opus/Sonnet/Haiku naming used thereafter. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-family ## Thursday 15 February 2024 - [OpenAI previews Sora, a text-to-video 'world simulator'](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-02-15-sora/) (Media generation; OpenAI; major). Reset expectations for AI video overnight and triggered a video-generation race (Veo, Kling, Runway Gen-3). Source: https://openai.com/index/sora/ - [Gemini 1.5 Pro brings a 1-million-token context window](https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-02-15-gemini-1-5/) (Model releases; Google DeepMind; major). Made million-token context a practical reality and shifted how developers used LLMs (whole-document and whole-repo prompting). Source: https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemini-next-generation-model-february-2024/ ## Thursday 14 December 2023 - [FunSearch: an LLM finds new cap-set constructions, the first LLM discovery in open maths](https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-12-14-funsearch-cap-sets/) (Science & math; Google DeepMind, University of Wisconsin–Madison; major). It was the direct ancestor of AlphaEvolve and showed that LLMs' mistakes don't matter when outputs can be automatically checked. Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06924-6 ## Wednesday 6 December 2023 - [Google DeepMind launches Gemini 1.0](https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-12-06-gemini-1/) (Model releases; Google DeepMind, Google; major). Google's main answer to GPT-4, beginning a Gemini line that reached the frontier with Gemini 2.5 and 3. Source: https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemini-ai/ ## Wednesday 29 November 2023 - [GNoME predicts 2.2 million new crystals, 380,000 stable, but novelty and usefulness are disputed](https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-11-29-gnome-millions-of-materials/) (Science & math; Google DeepMind, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; major). It is the largest AI materials-prediction effort, and a leading example of the gap between computational "discovery" and a useful new material. Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06735-9 ## Tuesday 14 November 2023 - [GraphCast: ML weather model beats the world's best physics-based 10-day forecast on 90% of targets](https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-11-14-graphcast-weather/) (Science & math; Google DeepMind; major). It triggered the rapid move of AI weather models into operational forecasting worldwide. Source: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi2336 ## Wednesday 1 November 2023 - [Bletchley Park AI Safety Summit and the Bletchley Declaration](https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-11-01-bletchley-ai-safety-summit/) (Policy & safety; UK Government; major). First intergovernmental agreement on frontier AI risk, and it created the network of national AI safety institutes. Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-safety-summit-2023-the-bletchley-declaration/the-bletchley-declaration-by-countries-attending-the-ai-safety-summit-1-2-november-2023 ## Monday 30 October 2023 - [US Executive Order 14110 on safe, secure and trustworthy AI](https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-10-30-us-executive-order-14110/) (Policy & safety; The White House; major). The most comprehensive US government action on AI at the time; its revocation in 2025 marked a sharp US policy turn toward deregulation. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/11/01/2023-24283/safe-secure-and-trustworthy-development-and-use-of-artificial-intelligence ## Tuesday 18 July 2023 - [Meta releases Llama 2 with a commercial-use license](https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-07-18-llama-2/) (Open source; Meta, Microsoft; major). Legitimized open-weights LLMs in industry and intensified the open vs. closed AI policy debate. Source: https://about.fb.com/news/2023/07/llama-2/ ## Tuesday 11 July 2023 - [RFdiffusion: diffusion models design new proteins that work in the lab](https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-07-11-rfdiffusion-protein-design/) (Science & math; University of Washington Institute for Protein Design; major). It became the workhorse of AI protein design, underlying AI antivenoms, antibodies and enzymes. Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06415-8 ## Tuesday 30 May 2023 - [Leading AI scientists sign the one-sentence statement on AI extinction risk](https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-05-30-cais-statement-ai-risk/) (Policy & safety; Center for AI Safety; major). Brought catastrophic AI risk into mainstream policy discourse, paving the way for the Bletchley summit and AI safety institutes. Source: https://www.safe.ai/work/statement-on-ai-risk ## Monday 1 May 2023 - [Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google so he can speak freely about AI risks](https://postcutoff.com/e/2023-05-01-hinton-leaves-google/) (Policy & safety; Google; major). When one of the field's founders publicly switched to warning about it, AI x-risk moved into the mainstream. Source: https://x.com/geoffreyhinton/status/1653687894534504451 ## 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/ ## 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. 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