Apple announces Apple Silicon with the M1 chip. The unified memory architecture and Neural Engine make local AI inference fast and efficient on laptops.

GitHub and OpenAI begin quietly collaborating on Copilot. The result — Codex-powered code autocomplete — would emerge in 2021 as the first killer LLM product.

Tesla rolls out Full Self-Driving Beta to a select group of customers. The approach of rapidly iterating FSD in customer hands becomes a point of industry controversy.