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/milestone/ # AI news: Milestones 14 events in Milestones of 1,105 in the log, newest first. Page 1 of 1, 50 events per page, grouped by the day each event happened. ## Wednesday 23 September 2026 - [DeepMind says Gemini 4 has entered post-training and will ship "much earlier" than end of 2026](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-23-gemini-4-post-training/) (Milestones; Google DeepMind). Signals Google's response to GPT-6 and Anthropic's latest models after months of Flash-only releases. Source: https://dataconomy.com/2026/09/25/deepmind-says-gemini-4-is-coming-much-earlier-than-expected/ ## Monday 21 September 2026 - [GPT-6 Astra agent wins NetHack](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-21-gpt-6-astra-nethack-ascension/) (Milestones; OpenAI). The run shows long-horizon execution, not only game knowledge: weeks of play in which one mistake can end the game. Source: https://kenforthewin.github.io/blog/posts/llm-nethack-ascension/ ## Thursday 17 September 2026 - [Anthropic's first R&D Automation Index](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-17-anthropic-rd-automation-index/) (Milestones; Anthropic, Anthropic Institute; major). AI-driven AI R&D is the core of recursive-self-improvement and "intelligence explosion" concerns. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/institute/measuring-pace-of-ai-development - [Open-weight models carry a majority of tokens on Vercel's AI Gateway for the first time](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-17-vercel-open-weight-models-majority-tokens/) (Milestones; Vercel). This is one of the few public measurements of what production apps actually run. Source: https://vercel.com/blog/ai-gateway-production-index-september-2026 ## Sunday 6 September 2026 - [Jensen Huang declares "AGI has arrived" with GPT-6 Astra](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-06-huang-brockman-agi-has-arrived/) (Milestones; NVIDIA, OpenAI; major). Leaders of a frontier lab and of its main compute supplier had never before claimed AGI this plainly. Source: https://x.com/JensenHuang/status/2096700264569090384 ## Tuesday 11 August 2026 - [Gemini app surpasses 1 billion monthly active users](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-08-11-gemini-app-1-billion-users/) (Milestones; Google). Two consumer AI assistants (ChatGPT and Gemini) now each claim roughly a billion monthly users, showing generative AI has become a mass-market product category within ~3.5 years of ChatGPT's launch. Source: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/products/gemini-app/one-billion-monthly-users/ ## Thursday 23 July 2026 - [2026 Fields Medals go to Hong Wang, Yu Deng, John Pardon and Jacob Tsimerman at ICM Philadelphia](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-23-fields-medals-2026/) (Milestones; International Mathematical Union). At the opening of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Philadelphia on July 23, 2026, the IMU awarded the Fields Medals to Hong Wang, Yu Deng, John Pardon and Jacob Tsimerman. Source: https://www.icm2026.org/event/ac193975-5d24-4628-8c30-ddb23de19a8b/HOME?environment=P2 ## 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/ ## 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 ## 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 ## 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 ## 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 ## June 1956, day not recorded - [Dartmouth Summer Research Project coins 'artificial intelligence'](https://postcutoff.com/e/1956-06-01-dartmouth-workshop/) (Milestones; Dartmouth College; historic). It named the field, set its ambitions, and gathered the people who led AI research for decades. 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