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# AI in 2018

3 events: 3 major. 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.

## December 2018, 1 event (1 major)

Month page: https://postcutoff.com/timeline/2018/12/

- 2018-12-02: [AlphaFold (v1) tops the CASP13 protein-structure prediction assessment](https://postcutoff.com/e/2018-12-02-alphafold-1-casp13/). Source: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1923-7

## October 2018, 1 event (1 major)

Month page: https://postcutoff.com/timeline/2018/10/

- 2018-10-11: [Google releases BERT, bidirectional Transformer pre-training](https://postcutoff.com/e/2018-10-11-bert/). Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04805

## June 2018, 1 event (1 major)

Month page: https://postcutoff.com/timeline/2018/06/

- 2018-06-11: [OpenAI's GPT-1: generative pre-training of Transformers](https://postcutoff.com/e/2018-06-11-gpt-1/). Source: https://openai.com/index/language-unsupervised/