Milestones: everything we have
Every milestones event we have logged, with sources, in one place.
15 events (8 after June 2026), 0 models, 1 video, 7 posts. Latest event 20 October 2026.
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Key moments
- Anthropic’s first R&D Automation Index: Claude ‘leads’ 26% of its AI R&D work (up from <1% in February); 30,000 agents run under monitoringOn Sept 17, 2026 the Anthropic Institute published “Measurements for understanding the pace of AI development inside frontier labs”, with three prototype metrics. On an AL0–AL5 automation scale (from Epoch AI), Claude…
- Jensen Huang declares “AGI has arrived” with GPT-6 Astra; Greg Brockman: “we’re now moving into the AGI era”On Sept 6, 2026, three days after GPT-6 Astra launched, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang wrote on X that Astra was trained on ~100K+ Grace Blackwell NVL72 GPUs and that “AGI has arrived”. OpenAI president Greg Brockman…
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry for protein design and AlphaFoldThe 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded half to David Baker for computational protein design and half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper of Google DeepMind for protein structure prediction with AlphaFold.
- Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey HintonThe 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics went to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton ‘for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks’.
- AlphaGo defeats Lee Sedol 4–1 at GoDeepMind’s AlphaGo beat 18-time world champion Lee Sedol 4–1 in Seoul, a milestone many experts had expected to be a decade away.
- IBM Watson wins Jeopardy! against human championsIBM’s Watson question-answering system defeated Jeopardy! champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter in a televised two-game match aired 14–16 February 2011.
- IBM Deep Blue defeats world chess champion Garry KasparovIBM’s Deep Blue won a six-game rematch against reigning world champion Garry Kasparov 3.5–2.5, the first defeat of a world champion by a computer under standard tournament time controls.
- Dartmouth Summer Research Project coins ‘artificial intelligence’The 1956 Dartmouth workshop, organized by John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester and Claude Shannon, is regarded as the founding event of AI as a field; the term ‘artificial intelligence’ comes from its 1955…
2026
- Demis Hassabis now expects AGI within two to three years, shortening his earlier 2026 forecast of three to five (WSJ interview)In a Wall Street Journal profile by Ben Cohen (“Why AI’s Deepest Mind Believes the World Is About to Change Radically”, Oct 21, 2026), the Journal reports that Demis Hassabis now expects AGI within two to three years…
- DeepMind says Gemini 4 has entered post-training and will ship “much earlier” than end of 2026At The Information’s AI Agenda Live summit (reported 24–25 Sept 2026), new DeepMind head Koray Kavukcuoglu said Gemini 4 is in early post-training and that Google intends to release an early post-training version “as…
- GPT-6 Astra agent wins NetHack: first recorded LLM-agent ascensionOn Sept 21, 2026 a GPT-6 Astra agent ascended (won) NetHack 3.6.7 on the public Hardfought server after 37,140 turns, on its third attempt. Hobbyist developer “Kenny” (kenforthewin) ran it and says it is the first…
- Open-weight models carry a majority of tokens on Vercel’s AI Gateway for the first time (56% in August 2026)Vercel’s AI Gateway Production Index for September 2026 (published Sept 17) reported that open-weight models processed 56% of all tokens routed through its gateway in August 2026, up from 13% in April and under 10% in…
- Anthropic’s first R&D Automation Index: Claude ‘leads’ 26% of its AI R&D work (up from <1% in February); 30,000 agents run under monitoringOn Sept 17, 2026 the Anthropic Institute published “Measurements for understanding the pace of AI development inside frontier labs”, with three prototype metrics. On an AL0–AL5 automation scale (from Epoch AI), Claude…
- Jensen Huang declares “AGI has arrived” with GPT-6 Astra; Greg Brockman: “we’re now moving into the AGI era”On Sept 6, 2026, three days after GPT-6 Astra launched, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang wrote on X that Astra was trained on ~100K+ Grace Blackwell NVL72 GPUs and that “AGI has arrived”. OpenAI president Greg Brockman…
- Gemini app surpasses 1 billion monthly active usersGoogle said on 11 Aug 2026 that the Gemini app passed 1 billion monthly active users, making it the fastest-growing product in Google’s history (up from 950M reported in July and ~400M in May 2025). ChatGPT had…
- 2026 Fields Medals go to Hong Wang, Yu Deng, John Pardon and Jacob Tsimerman at ICM Philadelphia
2024
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry for protein design and AlphaFoldThe 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded half to David Baker for computational protein design and half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper of Google DeepMind for protein structure prediction with AlphaFold.
- Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey HintonThe 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics went to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton ‘for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks’.
2019
- Hinton, LeCun and Bengio receive the Turing Award for deep learningThe ACM awarded the 2018 A.M. Turing Award to Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio, the ‘godfathers of deep learning’, for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that made deep neural networks a critical…
2016
- AlphaGo defeats Lee Sedol 4–1 at GoDeepMind’s AlphaGo beat 18-time world champion Lee Sedol 4–1 in Seoul, a milestone many experts had expected to be a decade away.
2011
- IBM Watson wins Jeopardy! against human championsIBM’s Watson question-answering system defeated Jeopardy! champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter in a televised two-game match aired 14–16 February 2011.
1997
- IBM Deep Blue defeats world chess champion Garry KasparovIBM’s Deep Blue won a six-game rematch against reigning world champion Garry Kasparov 3.5–2.5, the first defeat of a world champion by a computer under standard tournament time controls.
1956
- Dartmouth Summer Research Project coins ‘artificial intelligence’The 1956 Dartmouth workshop, organized by John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester and Claude Shannon, is regarded as the founding event of AI as a field; the term ‘artificial intelligence’ comes from its 1955…
Videos
- Demis Hassabis on Why He Sold DeepMind to Google for $650M | The Job Interview WSJ. Style (The Wall Street Journal), 2026-10-21