2020s
OpenAI o1 Full Release
Full release of reasoning models with advanced problem-solving capabilities.
DeepSeek-V3 Global Impact
Open-weights model that achieved frontier performance with extreme cost efficiency.
Claude 3.7 / 3.8 Series
Anthropic's flagship models with deep reasoning and agentic control features.
OpenAI 'Operator' Agents
The first mainstream agent product capable of autonomous web and desktop manipulation.
Gemini 2.0 Pro
Google's next-generation multimodal model with natively integrated reasoning.
NVIDIA Blackwell Mass Shipment
Mass deployment of the B200 and GB200 architectures across data centers.
Llama 4 Launch
Meta's most powerful open-source model family, trained on massive H100 clusters.
Mistral Large 3
Efficient European frontier model focusing on reasoning and sovereign AI.
Perplexity Advanced Research Agents
Autonomous search and synthesis agents that create real-time reports.
Apple Intelligence 2.0
Deep OS integration of agentic AI with on-device reasoning.
xAI Grok-3
Frontier model trained on the Colossus supercluster, featuring real-time X data access.
Sora Public Release
Cinematic-quality video generation model available for general use.
EU AI Act Enforcement Begins
The first major global regulation for AI becomes fully enforceable.
Agentic IDE Standard
Mainstream adoption of 'Software Engineer' AI agents that write entire features.
Humanoid Robotics Integration
Breakthrough in scaling robot learning (vLA) for general-purpose humanoids.
Synthetic Data Curation Scale
Shift to AI-curated and AI-generated data for training frontier models.
Test-time Compute Scaling
Industrialization of 'System 2' thinking where models think longer to find better answers.
Midjourney v7
Integration of Photorealistic Video, 3D, and Advanced Consistency.
Web-Agent Standards
Consolidation of models that can navigate the 'Legacy Web' like humans.
Intelligence Cost Collapse
Frontier-class intelligence token prices dropped over 90% in one year.
Perplexity Advanced Research Agents
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