The years

One page a year, from the AlphaGo match forward. Each opens with an overview, then the months, then every entry filed under them.

  1. 2026

    Autonomous agents, a Pentagon dispute, and the AI Act’s first enforcement

    35 entries , 2 turning points

  2. 2025

    Cheap Chinese AI, agentic coding, and giant infrastructure deals

    20 entries , 3 turning points

  3. 2024

    AI shipped faster, met its first binding law, and won two Nobel Prizes

    23 entries , 3 turning points

  4. 2023

    Generative AI went mainstream, drawing investment, lawsuits, strikes, new laws

    20 entries , 3 turning points

  5. 2022

    The year generative models reached the public

    18 entries , 3 turning points

  6. 2021

    The year foundation models multiplied and Europe proposed binding rules

    14 entries , 2 turning points

  7. 2020

    The year GPT-3 arrived and AlphaFold 2 matched the laboratory

    14 entries , 2 turning points

  8. 2019

    GPT-2’s staged release, Microsoft’s billion, a face-recognition ban

    13 entries , 3 turning points

  9. 2018

    GDPR, Cambridge Analytica, a fatal robot-car crash, and BERT

    14 entries , 3 turning points

  10. 2017

    The year the transformer architecture was published

    11 entries , 3 turning points

  11. 2016

    The year a program beat the strongest Go player of his generation

    13 entries , 1 turning point