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/2020/01/ # AI in January 2020 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. - 2020-01-23: [OpenAI publishes 'Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models'](https://postcutoff.com/e/2020-01-23-scaling-laws/). Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08361 Older: https://postcutoff.com/timeline/2019/07/ Newer: https://postcutoff.com/timeline/2020/02/