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/2022/01/ # AI in January 2022 2 events: 2 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. - 2022-01-28: [Chain-of-thought prompting elicits reasoning in LLMs](https://postcutoff.com/e/2022-01-28-chain-of-thought/). Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.11903 - 2022-01-27: [InstructGPT: RLHF aligns language models to follow instructions](https://postcutoff.com/e/2022-01-27-instructgpt/). Source: https://openai.com/index/instruction-following/ Older: https://postcutoff.com/timeline/2021/12/ Newer: https://postcutoff.com/timeline/2022/02/