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# AI news: Model releases, page 3

102 events in Model releases of 1,545 in the log, newest first. Page 3 of 3, 50 events per page, grouped by the day each event happened.

## 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/

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