As of: 2026-10-07 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/timeline/2012/09/ # AI in September 2012 1 event: 1 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. - 2012-09-30: [AlexNet wins ImageNet challenge, igniting the deep learning boom](https://postcutoff.com/e/2012-09-30-alexnet/). Source: https://papers.nips.cc/paper/2012/hash/c399862d3b9d6b76c8436e924a68c45b-Abstract.html Older: https://postcutoff.com/timeline/2011/02/ Newer: https://postcutoff.com/timeline/2013/01/