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# AI in 2019

4 events: 2 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.

## July 2019, 1 event

Month page: https://postcutoff.com/timeline/2019/07/

- 2019-07-22: [Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAI](https://postcutoff.com/e/2019-07-22-microsoft-invests-openai/). Source: https://openai.com/index/microsoft-invests-in-and-partners-with-openai/

## March 2019, 2 events (1 major)

Month page: https://postcutoff.com/timeline/2019/03/

- 2019-03-27: [Hinton, LeCun and Bengio receive the Turing Award for deep learning](https://postcutoff.com/e/2019-03-27-turing-award-deep-learning/). Source: https://awards.acm.org/about/2018-turing
- 2019-03-13: [Rich Sutton publishes "The Bitter Lesson"](https://postcutoff.com/e/2019-03-13-sutton-bitter-lesson/). Source: http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

## February 2019, 1 event (1 major)

Month page: https://postcutoff.com/timeline/2019/02/

- 2019-02-14: [OpenAI announces GPT-2 and withholds the full model over misuse concerns](https://postcutoff.com/e/2019-02-14-gpt-2/). Source: https://openai.com/index/better-language-models/