OpenAI Acquires Global Illumination — First Acquisition Since Founding
OpenAI announces the acquisition of Global Illumination, its first ever acquisition. The team had worked on the MMO Biomes; the acquisition…
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Claude 2.1 Released by Anthropic — 200K Context Window
Anthropic releases Claude 2.1 with a 200K token context window. Long-context LLMs unlock entire-document-at-once reasoning. Legal and…
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Tesla Optimus Gen 2 Revealed — The Humanoid Race Accelerates
Tesla reveals Optimus Gen 2, a humanoid robot with significantly better balance and manipulation. Humanoid robotics becomes the defining…
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OpenAI DevDay + Sam Altman Drama — Corporate Governance Shock
OpenAI announces GPTs at DevDay. Days later, the board fires Sam Altman. Within a week, he is reinstated. AI corporate governance gets…
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Google Gemini Ultra, Pro, Nano Announced
Google announces Gemini in three sizes: Ultra, Pro, and Nano. The multi-modal model suite claims to match or exceed GPT-4 on key…
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Apple Vision Pro Public Launch — Spatial Computing Arrives
Apple launches Vision Pro publicly in the US at $3,499. The first spatial computer ships. Early users explore the promise and limits of…
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OpenAI Sora Revealed — Text-to-Video Stuns the World
OpenAI reveals Sora, a text-to-video model producing startlingly realistic 1-minute clips. The generative video moment arrives, and every…
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Claude 3 Family Released by Anthropic — Opus, Sonnet, Haiku
Anthropic releases Claude 3 in three tiers: Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku. Opus claims GPT-4-class performance; Haiku delivers near-instant…
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Meta Llama 3 Released — Open-Source Catches Up
Meta releases Llama 3 in 8B and 70B sizes. Open-source LLMs reach performance parity with mid-tier closed models. The local-AI movement…
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OpenAI GPT-4o Released — One Model for Text, Voice, Vision
OpenAI releases GPT-4o (omni) — one native multi-modal model for text, speech, and vision. The live voice demo feels like speaking to……
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Apple Intelligence Announced — AI Baked Into iOS
Apple announces Apple Intelligence — on-device AI across iOS 18, with Private Cloud Compute for larger models and an OpenAI partnership as…
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Meta SAM 2 Released — Universal Segmentation for Images and Video
Meta releases Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM 2), extending universal segmentation to video. Creative and scientific video workflows are…
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