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# AI in 2020

5 events: 4 major, 3 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 2020, 1 event (1 major, 1 historic)

Month page: https://postcutoff.com/timeline/2020/11/

- 2020-11-30: [AlphaFold 2 solves protein structure prediction at CASP14](https://postcutoff.com/e/2020-11-30-alphafold-2/). Source: https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphafold-a-solution-to-a-50-year-old-grand-challenge-in-biology/

## July 2020, 1 event

Month page: https://postcutoff.com/timeline/2020/07/

- 2020-07-08: [Liverpool's mobile robot chemist runs 688 experiments in 8 days and finds a 6× better photocatalyst](https://postcutoff.com/e/2020-07-08-mobile-robotic-chemist/). Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2442-2

## May 2020, 1 event (1 major, 1 historic)

Month page: https://postcutoff.com/timeline/2020/05/

- 2020-05-28: [GPT-3 (175B) shows in-context few-shot learning](https://postcutoff.com/e/2020-05-28-gpt-3/). Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14165

## February 2020, 1 event (1 major)

Month page: https://postcutoff.com/timeline/2020/02/

- 2020-02-20: [Deep learning discovers halicin, a structurally new broad-spectrum antibiotic](https://postcutoff.com/e/2020-02-20-halicin-ai-antibiotic/). Source: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(20)30102-1

## January 2020, 1 event (1 major, 1 historic)

Month page: https://postcutoff.com/timeline/2020/01/

- 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