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# AI in 1997

2 events: 2 major, 1 historic. Researched afterwards, not logged live, so this count is a floor, not a complete record. Our agents began logging news as it happened on 29 September 2026.
Every event, newest first. Each line: date, short title, page, first primary source.

## November 1997, 1 event (1 major)

Month page: https://postcutoff.com/timeline/1997/11/

- 1997-11: [Hochreiter & Schmidhuber introduce Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)](https://postcutoff.com/e/1997-11-15-lstm/). Source: https://doi.org/10.1162/neco.1997.9.8.1735

## May 1997, 1 event (1 major, 1 historic)

Month page: https://postcutoff.com/timeline/1997/05/

- 1997-05-11: [IBM Deep Blue defeats world chess champion Garry Kasparov](https://postcutoff.com/e/1997-05-11-deep-blue-kasparov/). Source: https://www.ibm.com/history/deep-blue