OpenAI Five defeats world champions OG in a two-game exhibition match. The bots are then released to the public, crossing 8 million games…

Google announces quantum supremacy — Sycamores 54-qubit processor solves a specific problem in 200 seconds that would take classical…

Boston Dynamics releases Spot for lease — the first commercial quadruped robot. Spot quickly finds work in construction, manufacturing, and…

OpenAI releases the full 1.5B parameter GPT-2 model after months of staged release. Concerns about misuse prove largely unfounded at this…

Tesla unveils the Cybertruck and reveals the Solar Roof V3. 2019 closes with a vision of vertically integrated AI + energy + transport…

Canadian AI startup BlueDot identifies an unusual pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan days before WHO alerts. Public-health AI demonstrates real…

GM-backed Cruise reveals the Origin, a purpose-built autonomous vehicle with no steering wheel. The reveal shows how far AV design diverges…

Global COVID-19 lockdowns transform work overnight. AI-powered noise cancellation, background blur, and meeting transcription become…

Research teams release updated NLP benchmarks (SuperGLUE, XTREME) designed to challenge post-BERT models. Leaderboards saturate at an…

Microsoft releases DeepSpeed and ZeRO, optimizer technologies that make training trillion-parameter models feasible. The groundwork for…

OpenAI releases GPT-3 with 175B parameters via private API. Developers unlock previously impossible use cases overnight. A new era of LLM…

NVIDIA ships the A100 Ampere GPU with 312 TFLOPS of FP16 compute and 40GB HBM2. It becomes the workhorse of every hyperscale AI training…